公共英语三级学习笔记Unit19VisitingaDoctorandHealthInsurance_公共英语经验交流

公共英语三级学习笔记Unit19VisitingaDoctorandHealthInsurance

　　6 、 Because of the high costs, patients now spend a limited number of days in the hospital, depending on their illness.

　　因为高价的花费，现在 , 病人们根据自身的病情 , 尽量花更少的时间呆在医院里。

　　7 、 It has worried me a good deal for the last week, and so now I am going to put it on my dressing-table and watch it ache.

　　上周牙疼一直困扰着我，所以现在我要把它摆放在我的梳妆台，看它还怎么疼！

　　Passage:

　　 For all it flaws, medical care in the United States has been reformed gigantically over the past several decades. Deaths from heart disease have fallen by 40 percent since 1970. thanks to better detection and treatment, cancer advances have helped to raise U.S. life expectancy from an average of 68 years in 1950 to 77 years today.

　　 Not only have American lives grown longer, but their quality has improved. The proportion of people over 65 with one or more chronic disabilities such as the inability to walk, or to get dressed, without aid declined from greater than 25 percent in 1982 to less than 20 percent in 1999. and the development of vision-correction surgery, among many other drugs and procedures, has allowed many Americans to prolong pleasures historically with youth.

　　 Of course, not all the recent improvements in American health and longevity can be directly attributed to our health-care system; some are as much the result of adopting healthier habits( exercise, better diet) or of dropping unhealthy ones (smoking, too much alcohol-drinking). Still, better medical care is the principal cause of improvements in American health and life span over the past 50 years.