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阅读理解 As stay-at-home orders relieve and cities reopen for business, many doctors and hospital administrators are calling for a quick return of health care to pre-pandemic levels. For months now, routine care has been postponed. Elective procedures - big moneymakers -were stopped so that hospitals could transfer resources to treating Covid-19 patients. Routine clinic visits were canceled or replaced by online sessions. This has resulted in great financial losses for hospitals and clinics. Hospitals have been forced to reduce employees or cut pay. Most patients, on the other hand, at least those with stable chronic (慢性的) conditions, seem to have done OK. In a recent survey, only one in ten respondents said their health or a family member's health had worsened as a result of delayed care. Eighty-six percent said their health had stayed about the same. Admittedly, postponing health care had terrible health consequences for some patients with non-Covid-19 illnesses. Still, a majority of patients seem to have done better than what most doctors expected. It will probably take years to understand why. However, perhaps Americans don't require the volume（体积）of care that their doctors are used to providing. It is well recognized that a substantial amount of health care in America is wasteful, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars of the total health care budget. Wasteful care is driven by many forces: "defensive" medicine by doctors trying to avoid lawsuits；the high prices that American doctors and hospitals charge；a lack of consensus about which treatments are effective; and the widespread belief that newer, more expensive technology is always better. In a survey a few years ago, two-thirds of doctors in the United States admitted that between 15 percent and 30 percent of heath care is probably unnecessary. Studies suggest that up to 20 percent of surgeries in some specialties are unnecessary. If your surgery was postponed because of the pandemic, it is worth having a conversation with your doctor about whether it is still needed. Many institutions are using this difficult time in our nation's history to make changes. The health care system should do the same. （1） What is the passage mainly about？ A . Hospitals and clinics in America are suffering a great loss. B . Doctors and hospitals in America are calling for the return of health care. C . A large amount of health care in America is unnecessary. D . Most patients' health in America had become worse because of stay-at-home orders. （2） It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A . hospitals and clinics in America used to make a lot of money. B . most patients seem to have been in stable conditions without any treatment. C . most doctors are providing too little health care on purpose. D . most people do not need a surgery if it is postponed because of the pandemic. （3） What is "defensive" medicine in paragraph 4 mean？ A . The medicine to defend the disease. B . The medicine to protect the patients. C . The medicine to help the doctors avoid troubles. D . The medicine to help the doctors treat patients better. （4） The author mentions "Many institutions are using this difficult time in our nation's history to make changes" in the last paragraph to indicate that ______. A . it is difficult to make a change in history. B . many institutions have made changes in history. C . the health care system may go through a hard time. D . the health care system need to make some changes. 答案： C A C D

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