英语翻译资格高级口译模拟21.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 [模拟] 英语翻译资格高级口译模拟21 Part A Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. Part A Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. Most people would be impressed by the high quality of medicine available to most Americans. There is___1___, a great deal of attention to the individual, a vast amount of___2___, and intense effort not to make mistakes because of the___3___which doctors and hospitals must face in the courts if they___4___. But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in which health care is___5___. Contrary to public belief, it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined___6___, because private care was simply not looking after___7___. But even with this huge public part of the system, which this year will eat up___8___ —more than 10 per cent of the U. S. Budget—___9___are left out. These include about half the___10___unemployed and those who fail to meet___11___on income fixed by a government trying to___12___where it can. The basic problem, however, is that there is no___13___over the health system. There is no confinement to what doctors and hospitals___14___, other than what the public is able to pay.___15___has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a___16___, all the unfortunate person concerned can do is pay up. Two-thirds of the population are___17___. Doctors charge as much as they want, knowing that the insurance com