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【題目】In December, after her third fall in a few months, Doris Carpenter was admitted to Rochdale infirmary（養(yǎng)老院）. Carpenter, 84, lives alone, but she is increasingly unsteady on her feet, and if she falls, she hasn’t the strength to get up again. Previously, a call to 111 would call nursing staff who could put her back into a chair, but it was increasingly clear she wasn’t coping, and needed more support.

This isn’t like any old hospital, however. Today Carpenter isn’t in bed but sitting in a chair, dressed in her own clothes, a fat Dan Brown book in front of her. “You don’t feel like you’re in hospital,” she says.

Two side rooms have been furnished with small groups of tables and chairs, with bright tablecloths. Those patients who are able can help themselves to food at mealtimes and sit with others to eat, or go to the library to select another page-turner. A physiotherapist helps Carpenter with her painful back, and is working to help improve her confidence on stairs.

Previously, an elderly person in Carpenter’s condition would most likely have ended up in an acute hospital ward（病房）.

There, very frequently, people of her age would get stuck, and many would go downhill fast.

“They come into hospital, and our model in the NHS is to put them to bed,” says Steve Taylor, the divisional director for community services. “Put your pyjamas on, you stay in that bed, we will feed you and toilet you.”

Shockingly quickly, he says, patients can lose what abilities they previously had. “And then, when it comes time to discharge you, you can no longer walk.”

This is probably the biggest challenge facing the NHS – the problem of an older population, the long years of illness that many of us will face and a fragile social care system underpinning it all.

【1】What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Carpenter often falls at home.

B. No one looks after Carpenter.

C. There is something wrong with Carpenter’s legs.

D. Carpenter is in such poor condition that she had to go to hospital.

【2】How might Carpenters feel living in the new hospital?

A. Lonely. B. Desperate.

C. Relaxed. D. Curious.

【3】In which section of a newspaper can you find this text?

A. Society. B. Technology.

C. Family. D. Medicine.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】本文主要通過Carpenter的故事向我們展示了英國國民健康保險制度的好處和它面臨的最大挑戰(zhàn)--老年人口問題。在十二月，她在幾個月內(nèi)摔倒三次后后住進(jìn)了醫(yī)院。在醫(yī)院她得到比其他醫(yī)院更好的照顧，這都得益于英國國民健康保險制度。但這老年人問題同時也是英國國民健康保險制度面臨的最大問題。

【1】主旨大意題。由第一段第一句話“In December, after her third fall in a few months, Doris Carpenter was admitted to Rochdale infirmary（養(yǎng)老院）.”在十二月，她在幾個月內(nèi)摔倒三次后后住進(jìn)了醫(yī)院。可知Carpenter身體狀況很差，不得不去醫(yī)院。D符合語境，故選D。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由“This isn’t like any old hospital, however. Today Carpenter isn’t in bed but sitting in a chair, dressed in her own clothes, a fat Dan Brown book in front of her. “You don’t feel like you’re in hospital,” she says.”但是這不像任何老醫(yī)院。今天Carpenter沒有在床上，而是坐在椅子上，穿著她自己的衣服，一個胖丹·布朗書在她面前。“你不覺得你在醫(yī)院里，”她說�？煽闯鏊�在這里很放松。C符合語境，故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。本文主要通過Carpenter的故事向我們展示了英國國民健康保險制度的好處和它面臨的最大挑戰(zhàn)--老年人口問題。由此可知我們可能會在報紙的社會專欄看到這篇文章。故選A。