阅读理解。 Michelle Katz is a health-care saving expert with a master"s degree in
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Martin had a heart attack right in front of her,she fought to save his life. Then,she fought the errors on his
medical bill and saved the
couple $ 7,000.
Kaze was talking with her husband in June 2008 when she noticed his face tuming gray. "I looked
over and I said,Martin,are you OK?""she told Good Morning America. "If I can describe death,that"s
kind of what I was seeing. And that"s when I grabbed him. And as I grabbed his hand,it was almost like
putting my hand in a vat (桶) of ice cubes.It was that cold. He started stiffening up. "
Terrified,Katz immediately gave her husband CPR.
"I started pushing down on the compressions (压缩) and was just screaming and saying"Are you
OK? Are you still with me ? ""she said. "I just wanted him to know,even if he wasn"t listening,that I was
not going to let someone die in my hands. And especially _____ "
Later,X-rays showed that Katz had cracked her husband"s ribs (肋骨) with the force of her
compressions. After 16 long minutes,an ambulance arrived and took Martin to the emergency room.
When hospital took over,Katz,the author of two books about saving money on medical bills,started
paying attention. She swore to follow the advice she had given others in Healthcare for Less and 101
Health Insurance Tips.
"I knew the dollar signs were going up, " Katz said. "That"s when I started documenting things. "In
the days that followed,Katz found errors on the bills that,when correctedlsaved her and her husband $
7,000.
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2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one? In terror,Katz performed
compressions on her husband without delay.
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3. Fill in the black in the fourth paragraph with proper words to complete the sentence. ( Please answer
within 10 words)
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4. What are the two books mainly about? (Please answer within 10 words)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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答案
2. Terrified,Katz immediately gave her husband CPR.
3．my own husband.
4. Saving money on medical bills.
5．在随后的几天,Katz发现账单有误,审对后,使他们夫妇节省了7,000美元.
举一反三
Some scientists are 3 about building whole cities under huge glass domes (圆顶). 4 , advanced
heating and cooling systems will be 5 to control the weather in the domes. 6 , there will never be any 7 or snow,and the temperature will always be 8 .
Perhaps everyone willlive in vertical(垂直的) cities-high rises 9 are so large that they can
10 all the necessities oflife. Since vertical cities will use 11 land than flat cities,and provide homes
12 more people,it
will be practical for small countries that have 13 population. 14 idea that will be helpful to small
countries is the 15 city. Monaco has already built homes,stores,and offices 16 the water of the
Mediterranean Sea.
There are some people who think that we will go back to 17 in caves. 18 the caves of the future
will be very different from the caves of the Stone Age. Farms and parks will be on the land 19 the cave
city. When people want to go to the country or to a park,a short ride in a 20 will take them there.
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| Are you carrying too much on your back at school? Lots of kids at the same age are as you are. Not only are students in China 1 from this problem,but kids in the United States are 2 fed up with(饱受……之苦) heavy school bags. Experts are starting to 3 that more and more young students are having back and neck problems as a result of school bags 4 too heavy for them. "It"s hard for me to get up the 5 with my bag because it"s so heavy," said Rick Hammond, 6 ll-year-old student in the US. Rick is among the students who have 7 backpacks(背包) with two straps(带子) to carry them, 8 a number of other students choose rolling backpacks. But even with rolling backpacks, 9 up stairs and buses with them is 10 a problem for kids. Many of them have hurt their knees,backs or necks because of heavy school bags. But how much is too 11 ? Experts say students should carry 12 more than 10 to 15 percent of their own body weight. Scott Bautch,a Wisconsin 13 docotor,said kids under4th grade should 14 within 10 percent. But it"s also important that older kids don"t go 15 15 percent,because their bones are still growing. Bautch explained that there are other injuries caused by backpacks. "Kids are 16 their balance and falling down with these backpacks,"he said. Parents and teachers are starting to tell the kids to only take 17 library books they will be reading that night.Some teachers are using worksheets (作业纸) or 18 workbooks for students to take home. One of the best answers is,as some 19 themselves suggested, to have no homework 20 ! | |||||||||||||||||
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