Many small businesses have () up in the city since the new policy went into effect.
A.come
B.sprung
C.taken
D.got
A.come
B.sprung
C.taken
D.got
A.exploring
B.exploding
C.exposing
D.exploiting
Consider the word "breakfast". "To fast" is to go for some period of time without【14】. Thus, in the morning, after many hours【15】the night without food, one【16】one's fast.
Consider the everyday English【17】"Good-bye". Many years ago, people would say to each other【18】parting: "God be with you." As this was【19】over and over millions of times, it gradually became【20】to "good-bye".
(1)
A.collected
B.made
C.contained
D.composed
-But then we'll have to accept a Board of Directors chosen by our stockholders. Wouldn't that limit us in many ways? -Certainly. But if you consider the massive capital investment that we'll receive, you'll understand that this could take our company ------ .
:A from being a big firm to being one of the medium-tier players ;
B from being a medium-tier firm to being one of the big players ;
C from being a medium-tier firm to being one of the small players
Vending machines sell many different types of items.Some of them sell cold drinks like soda, or hot drinks like coffee or hot chocolate.Others sell candy, stamps, tickets, newspapers, and other types of small merchandise.These machines have been successful for two reasons.They save time and they are convenient.Merchandise sold in machine eliminates the need for a sale clerk or cashier.In many places the customer puts a coin into the machine and then pushes a button, pulls a lever, or opens a door to receive the merchandise.Some machines will also return change to the customer, and a few will make change for paper money.But the basic idea is the same.Customers like to save time and are usually willing to pay a higher price for this convenience.The sale of snacks in vending machines has always been very successful.However, machines now sell hot meals with only limited success.In New York city, automates used to sell a lot of hot foods in vending machines.But in recent years, fast food establishments have replaced automates.()
A.Fast food establishments have always been successful
B.Vending machines have been successful
C.So far, vending machines have won only limited success
D.Vending machines sell many different kinds of goods
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What is museum? A museum is a good place to keep old and beautiful things. A museum may be a place to learn about science. A museum can be a place {for; on; about} art of Indians or animals. What is inside a museum? Some museums have old cars and airplanes. Many museums have pictures and statues (雕像). Others have rocks and old bones. One museum even has {the; a; an} coal mine inside! Many cities have museums. Some very small {towns; homes; countries} have museums, too. Indianapolis has a {child's; child; children's} museum. Children do not have to pay to get in. Children go to the museum often. They like to look at the dinosaur bones. They see a white bear ten feet tall. They go inside an old log cabin (小木屋). On Saturday, Indianapolis children can {listen; to hear; hear} talks about animals and trees. They see movies.
The issue is not that simple. Larger hospitals generally are designed to provide more complex care. Routine care at large hospitals costs more than the same care given at smaller hospitals. Therefore, closure of all the small hospitals would commit the city to paying considerably more for inpatient care delivered at acute care hospitals than would be the case with a mixture of large and small institutions. Since reimbursement rates at the large hospitals are now based on total costs, paying the large institutions a lower rate for routine care would simply raise the rates for complex care by a comparable amount. Such a reimbursement rate adjustment might make the charges for each individual case more accurately reflect the actual costs, but there would be no reduction in total costs.
There is some evidence that giant hospitals are not the most efficient. Service organizations – and medical care remains largely a service industry – frequently find that savings of scale have an upper limit. Similarly, the quality of routine care in the very largest hospitals appears to be less than optimum. Also, the concentration of all hospital beds in a few locations may affect the access to care. Thus, simply closing the smaller hospitals will not necessarily save money or improve the quality of care.
Since the fact remains that there are too many acute care hospital beds in the city, the problem is to devise a proper strategy for selecting and urging the closure of the excess beds, however many it may turn out to be.
The closing of whole buildings within large medical centers has many of the cost advantages of closing the whole of smaller institutions, because the fixed costs can also be reduced in such cases. Unfortunately, many of the separate buildings at medical centers are special use facilities, the relocation of which is extremely costly. Still, a search should be made for such opportunities.
The current lack of adequate ambulatory care facilities raises another possibility. Some floors or other large compact areas of hospitals could be transferred from inpatient to ambulatory uses. Reimbursement of ambulatory services is chaotic, but the problem is being addressed. The overhead associated with the entire hospital should not be charged, even prorated to the ambulatory facilities. Even if it were, the total cost would probably be less than that of building a new facility. Many other issues would also need study especially the potential over centralization of ambulatory services.
(1)、This passage is mainly about ________________.
A、ways to protect small hospitals
B、methods of selecting qualified hospitals
C、solutions to the shortage of hospital beds
D、economic consideration in closing small hospitals
(2)、It seems that the author thinks that the claim made by Planning Commission is ________________.
A、fair
B、wise
C、foolish
D、shortsighted
(3)、The closure of all small hospitals would lead to ________________.
A、a reduction in total costs
B、a reduction in the number of patients
C、an increase in the cost of inpatient care
D、an increase in the number of large hospitals
(4)、The author agrees with all the following statements EXCEPT that ________________.
A、access to medical care is an important issue
B、big hospitals are not necessarily more efficient
C、large hospitals provide better and more complex care than smaller ones
D、the same routine medical care costs more at large hospitals than at smaller ones
(5)、According to the author, the best way to reduce costs in the health system is ________________.
A、to make full use of the existing facilities
B、to update the entire medical service
C、to close most giant hospitals
D、to close all small hospitals
Yet 【C12】______ these changes, there are still great differences in status between men and women. Many employers seem to 【C13】______ the Equal Pay Act, and the average workingwomen is 【C14】______ to earn only about half 【C15】______ a man earns for the same job. 【C16】______ a sur-vey, at present, only one-third of the country's workers are 【C17】______ women. This small percentage is partly 【C18】______ a shortage of nurseries. If there were 【C19】______ nurseries, twice as many women 【C20】______ go out to work.
【C1】______
A.certainly
B.especially
C.apparently
D.practically
The fans are wrong. More than anything else, digital cameras are radically【4】what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography【5】we know, it is beginning to seem out of【6】with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder【7】, saving pictures as digital【8】and watching them on TV is no less practical — and in many ways more【9】than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be【10】.
Paper is also terribly【11】. Pictures that are incorrectly framed,【12】, or lighted are nonetheless committed to film and ultimately processed into prints.
The digital medium changes the【13】. Still images that are【14】digitally can immediately be shown on a computer【15】, a TV screen, or a small liquid crystal display (LCD) built right into the camera. And since the points of light that【16】an image are saved as a series of digital bits in electronic memory,【17】being permanently etched onto film, they can be erased, retouched, and transmitted【18】.
What’s it like to【19】with one of these digital cameras? It’s a little like a first date — exciting, confusing and fraught with【20】.
(1)
A.rather than
B.let alone
C.much less
D.so as to
1. According to the passage, the passage mainly talks about ().
A. the scale of franchising in China
B. the franchise law in China
C. an outline of franchising in China
2. KFC was the () foreign franchise to China in 1987 and is widespread.
A. most profound
B. first
C. wealthiest
3. Many franchises are in fact joint-ventures, because ().
A. at the beginning stage, franchise law was not so clear
B. at the beginning stage, many franchises could not find the right partners
C. many foreigners were not familiar with Chinese culture
4. Foreign franchise grows in China because of ().
A. the open policy
B. the small amount of retail trade
C. the Chinese culture
5. The writer has the ()attitude to franchising in China
A. negative
B. positive
C. neutral