English Planet :: İngilis planeti :: Inglés Planet :: anglais planète :: Englisch Planet 英語プラネット:: 영어 플래닛 :: 英語星球 :: Английский Планета :: İngilizce Gezegen :: अंग्रेजी ग्रह :: angla Planedo :: الإنجليزية الكوكب Read and answer 3 questions Most language examinations these days have multiple choice tests. Multiple choice tests have fundamental defects. But they are a fact of modern exam life and have to be faced. Multiple choice tests are supposed to be objective. In reality, however, it is possible to train for them, and if you have to do them in your exam it is very important that you should have practised the right technique for them. To test peoples ability to understand a language the examiners present a passage or passages, usually about half a page to a page in length, and give an instruction more or less as follows: After each of the following passages there are a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage. Each one has four suggested answers or ways of finishing; choose the one you think is best. (Sometimes more than four alternatives are given.) Below is a little piece on the American health system (shorter than what you will normally get), followed by three of the type of question you could expect to be set on it. The standard of medicine in the United States is generally agreed to be very high. There is no shortage of well qualified specialists, and there is a lot of individual attention. Treatment is backed up by the latest in the way of medical technology. Doctors and hospitals do their utmost not to make mistakes, because if they do they risk being made to pay out enormous sums in compensation. But the American health care system has what look like insoluble problems. There are in fact two systems side by side. One is the private system run on the basis of free competition. The other is the public system which had to be created because such a large part of the population, including many of the elderly, could not afford to pay for the absurdly expensive private treatment. The public system is vast. A huge proportion - more than 10 per cent - of the United States federal budget goes on it. Yet there are still very large numbers of Americans who are not covered even by this service. The government tries to keep expenditure down and so sets limits to the income of people using the system. Millions of the unemployed are another important group that is excluded. 1 What is the state of the health system in America? It is A unsatisfactory. B satisfactory. C too risky. D too mechanised. 2 What can patients expect with regard to treatment in the U.S.A.? A Frequent mistakes by doctors. B Very honest hospitals. C Personal attention. D Some of the most skilful nurses in the world. 3 Among those Americans who cannot get proper health care are A some people who earn too much. B old people. C people with very large incomes. D private patients.
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