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Model Test 9Section ANews Report One(1)Trying to see a doctor in China’s public hospitals can be a painful experience, often involving queuing overnight just to get a consultation lasting a few minutes. A Chinese Internet firm is attempting to address the problem by providing Chinese patients online access to licensed doctors. The Wuzhen Internet Hospital based in Wuzhen, a riverside town in Zhejiang, was founded in December to provide services via an app called We Doctor. (2)The medical service is the online equivalent of a hospital outpatient service, whichprovides access to 26,000 licensed doctors in more than 2,400 hospitals across China. Users can get prescriptions and pay bills on their cellphones and have medicines delivered. The app sees an average of 31,000 appointments made each day. Wuzhen Internet Hospital has branches in 17 cities and provinces, including Beijing, Sichuan, Gansu and Guizhou. Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1.What problem does the Internet firm attempt to address?2.How many licensed doctors does the medical service provide?News Report TwoFirst up, a setback for the European Space Agency. Working together with Russia, (3)the ESA is testing its ability to land a spacecraft on Mars. Its scientists are hoping to find out whether life has ever existed there. But the latest lander it sent named Schiaparelli appears to have crashed on the red planet, instead of landing softly as planned. It looks like its parachute and landing rockets malfunctioned and Schiaparelli didn’t send back any signals after its high speed descent through the Martian atmosphere on Wednesday. This wouldn’t be the first lander the ESA has lost on Mars. But the agency says another part of its $1.5 billion mission involving a craft that’s orbiting Mars is working. (4)And ESA officials are moving forward with plans for a bigger project. They want to send a rover to Mars in 2020.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just he