Some expensive drugs can be economical______.A.at long lastB.in the long wayC.in the long
Some expensive drugs can be economical______.
A.at long last
B.in the long way
C.in the long run
D.at long length
Some expensive drugs can be economical______.
A.at long last
B.in the long way
C.in the long run
D.at long length
According to the passage, patients who are gravely ill ______.
A.can get experimental drugs more quickly than ever before
B.are still unable to get experimental drugs because of government strict policies
C.can't afford some expensive experimental drugs
D.refuse to be treated with experimental drugs
听力原文: Ma Kai, the Director of China's National Development and Reform. Commission, says the Chinese government has lowered drug prices 22 times in the last few years on 1,600 kinds of drugs, in some cases several times. But despite those moves, Ma says, drugs are still so expensive the average Chinese often can't afford them. Ma was speaking Wednesday on the sidelines of China's annual legislative session, the National People's Congress. He said when the government orders a drug's price to be lowered, some drug companies simply changed the product's name or the packaging and continue charging the same high price. He also said some hospitals rely on profits from drug sales to fund their operating costs. Ma says a comprehensive reform. of the healthcare system is needed.
According to Ma Kai, drag prices in China now ______.
A.are too high
B.are too low
C.are at a reasonable level
D.are changeable
After the improvement of the hospital environment, ______.
A.patients no longer need drugs in their recovery
B.patients are not wholly dependent on expensive drugs
C.patients need good - quality, drags in their recovery
D.patients use no painkillers in their recovery
A.recommend
B.advocate
C.specify
D.prescribe
After the improvement of the hospital environment, patients ______.
A.no longer need drugs in their recovery
B.are not wholly dependent on expensive drugs
C.need good-quality drugs in their recovery
D.do not use pain killers in their recovery
A.Patients no longer needed drugs in their recovery.
B.Patients were not wholly dependent on expensive medicine.
C.Patients needed good-quality drugs in their recovery.
D.Patients used fewer pain killers in their recovery.
The best title for this text might be
A.How to Make New Drugs.
B.The Quickest Way to Test New Drugs.
C.Why New Drugs Cost so Much.
D.Criticism of Expensive New Drugs.
These senior long-distance shopping strees fall in a legal gray zone. But as long as people cross the border with prescriptions from a physician and have them filled for no more than a three-month supply for personal use, customs and other federal officials leave them alone. The trip might be tiring, but people can save an average of 60 percent on the cost of their prescription drugs. For some, that's the difference between taking the drugs or doing without. "The last bus trip I was on six months ago had 25 seniors," says Chellie Pingree, former Maine state senator and now president of Common Cause. "Those 25 people saved $19.000 on their supplies of drugs." Pingree sponsored Maine RX, which authorizes a discounted price on drugs for Maine residents who lack insurance coverage. The law was challenged by drug companies but recently upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. It hasn't yet taken effect.
Figuring out ways to spend less on prescription drugs has become a multifaceted national movement of consumers, largely senior citizens. The prescription drug bill in America is $160 billion annually, and people over 65 fill five times as many prescriptions as working Americans on average. "But they do it on health benefits that are half as good and on incomes that are half as large," says Richard Evans, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment research firm. What's more, seniors account for 20 percent of the voting public.
It's little wonder that the May 19 Supreme Court ruling got the attention of drug manufacturers and politicians across the country. The often-over-looked state of 1.3 million tucked in the northeast corner of the country became David to the pharmaceutical industry's Goliath. The face-off began three years ago when state legislators like Pingree began questioning why Maine's elderly population had to take all those bus trips.
The elderly Americans cross the Maine-Canada border in order to get drags that are ______.
A.sold wholesale
B.over the counter
C.less expensive
D.tax-free
A.aged
B.aging
C.age
D.ages
The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment(环境) in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.
As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country's best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2,500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of artistic works in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms:
These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(观众).
A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000' visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patient's waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain's first hospital artist. Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colors ,playful images and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
Some best artists of Britain have been called in to ______.
A.set up new hospitals
B.clean the comers of hospitals
C.bring art into hospitals
D.help patients recover from serious illness
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