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[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷13 Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 0 Surive in the Global Economic Erisis About one-third of Americans who qualify for public assistance havent signed up. That amounts to millions of people needlessly going without food stamps, low-income housing or health insurance. This predicament is what RealBenefits, a Boston-based software start-up, was created to solve. The five-person firms Web database avoids complicated government paperwork with easy-to-use screening and enrollment tools. So far RealBenefits has connected nearly 100,000 families to more than $ 37 1 million in government aid since 2000. Yet amid this success, RealBenefits, which began life as a nonprofit, faced the same dilemma that many social enterprises do: how to scale up without selling out. No software firm is going to attract donors easily, even a nonprofit, says Sharon Oster, dean of the Yale School of Management and an expert on social entrepre-neurship. And to grow, you need access to capital. So in 2006, RealBenefits went commercial. Still tucked under the umbrella of founder Community Catalyst, the sales staff began slowly refocusing its energy on paying customers like hospital chains, governments and school districts rather than the community organizations and nonprofits that had previously peppered its client list. A subscription-based service, RealBenefits charges a fee that ranges from $ 10,000 for, say, a homeless-services group to six figures on the high end. Our model was to find large health-care providers whod be willing to pay because they were actually increasing reimbursements and minimizing uncompensated care by using our technology, says CEO Enrique Balaguer. Nonetheless, RealBenefits was still struggling to expand because of the difficulty of accessing capital. So the firm set out to find a buy