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Narayana Hrudayalaya’s origins date back to 2001, when it built its massive cardiac center on the outskirts (市郊)of Bangalore. But it has expanded since then into what founder Dr. Devi Shetty calls a "health city," a series of centers specializing in eye, trauma, and cancer care. Narayana Hrudayalaya now manages or owns hospitals in 14 other Indian cities.
Expanding access is paired with a ongoing focus on efficiency. Typically, says Shetty, private hospitals in India focus on patients who can easily afford treatment. "We did it the other way around," he says. "This hospital is for poor people, but we also treat some rich people. We don’t look at people who are sgabbily dressed and have trouble paying as outsiders. " Narayana Hrudayalaya’s flagship hospital has 3,000 beds and negotiates for better prices and buys directly from manufacturers, cutting out distributors.
In addition to cost-cutting, Narayana Hrudayalaya finds creative ways to make the economics work. The company started a micro-insurance program backed by the government that enables 3 million farmers to have coverage for as little as 22 cents a month in premiums(保险费). Patients who pay discounted rates are in effect compensated by those who pay full price
Doing something--doing more, actually--is the point. By 2017, Shetty, 58, plans to expand from 5,000 beds throughout India to 30,000. Before becoming one of India’s best-known health-care entrepreneurs, Shetty was its best-known heart surgeon. He was interrupted in surgery one day during the 1990s by a request to make a house call. "I said, "I don’t make home visits," " Shetty says, "and the caller said, "If you see this patient, the experience may transform your life." " The request was from Mother Teresa. Inspired by the her work with the poor, he then set out to create a hospital to deliver care based on need, not wealth. "One lesson she taught me," he says, quoting a saying he keeps framed in his office, "is "Hands that sew are holier than lips that pray." "
小题1:Narayana Hrudayalayastarted a micro-insurance to _______.
A.cut down on the cost of the treatment | B.get the support of the government |
C.make the company run smoothly | D.attract more people to its hospital |
A.the cost of medicine care in India is very low |
B.Shetty wouldn’t have succeeded without Mother Teresa |
C.Shetty and his colleagues are likely to make home visits now |
D.Shetty has expanded his hospitals to most of other cities in India |
A.He wanted to build a health city. |
B.He was motivated and decided to help more people. |
C.He intended to develop his career in different areas. |
D.He meant to help more poor people get free treatment. |
A.It’s doing something and doing more that really matters. |
B.It’s not easy to take positive action to contribute to society. |
C.Healthcare workers are the holiest persons in the world. |
D.Praying alone is of no significance in face of difficult situation. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析
试题分析:文章讲述了Narayana Hrudayalaya是一个印度的综合医疗机构,它的目的是给人们提供低价钱的高质量的医疗服务。本文同时介绍了它的历史,它的创始人Shetty为什么要创办这所医院。
小题1:细节题。倒数第二自然段In addition to cost-cutting, Narayana Hrudayalaya finds creative ways to make the economics work.可知,除了上述的削减成本以外,他们这么做是为了使经济状况更加好,故选C
小题2:推断题。从文章的最后一段可知Shetty是著名的外科医生,她接到一个电话,电话是特丽莎修女打来的,起先他并不乐意出门会诊,后来被特丽莎帮助穷人的事情感动后,他就创建了一个只为寻求而不为名利的医院来帮助那些需要帮助的人,所以可以推断出他和他的同事现在可能很乐意出门会诊了,故选C
小题3:推断题。从第三自然段"This hospital is for poor people, but we also treat some rich people. We don’t look at people who are sgabbily dressed and have trouble paying as outsiders. 可知,他的这所医院是给穷人看病的同时也给富人看病,他们不会以貌取人也不会像个局外人一样任凭那些付不起医疗费的人处于困境中,故选B,他是积极的,乐意去帮助更多的人,而并非是帮助更多的穷人得到免费的医疗。
小题4:推断题。双手合十要比只是嘴上祈祷要神圣的多,通过最后一段第一句,可知要做一些真正重要的、要紧的事情。故选A
点评:本文较难,其中的生词较多,要有一定的文化背景才能真正理解文意。文中提到的特丽莎修女是意大利修女,长期在加尔各答贫民窟从事救济工作,获1997年诺贝尔和平奖,所以Shetty被她的事例所感动。解答此类文章要注重细节,对长句子要耐心分析成分,结合题目仔细的作答。
核心考点
试题【Narayana Hrudayalaya, a complex of health centers based in southern India, offer】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Mary is an 18-year-old girl who lives in New York. The people in Mary’s family are so busy that they hardly have time to be with her. In fact, Mary is quite lonely. So she spends a lot of time on QQ.
Last year Mary made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and he lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Mary had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot the time. David sent Mary a picture of “himself”: he was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
Before David’s birthday, Mary wanted to give him a surprise. She flew to San Francisco. But when Mary knocked on David’s door, she found that the special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
So when you make friends on the Internet, please be careful. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the Internet.
u Don’t give your password to anyone else, and never let out the following information: your real name, home address, age, school, phone number or other personal information.
u Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parents’ permission. Never meet anyone you met online alone.
u Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Treat everyone online as if they were strangers.
u Remember — not everything you read on the Internet is true.
小题1:Why does Mary spend a lot of her time on QQ?
A.Because she feels lonely. |
B.Because she doesn’t like learning. |
C.Because she wants to make a boyfriend. |
D.Because she likes computer games. |
A.he was tall and good-looking | B.he sent her a picture of himself |
C.he was from San Francisco | D.he made her quite happy on QQ. |
A.give password to others |
B.get useful knowledge and information |
C.give phone number to others |
D.believe everything they read |
A.Sending messages and emails. |
B.Visiting cool websites. |
C.Giving your real name to others. |
D.Treating everyone online as strangers. |
A.Things might not be real on the Internet. |
B.It’s not good to chat on QQ. |
C.Don’t meet some one you get to know on QQ. |
D.Don’t buy anything on line. |
In the 35 years since I was a teenager, celebrity worship (崇拜) has increased among teens due to the explosion of television celebrity gossip shows, and instant access to celebrity news on the Internet. It’s no wonder that many teens are obsessed with stars when news programs are often filled with entertainment stories and the lives of celebrities.
Celebrity worship syndrome (综合征) is now considered a personality disorder. While it is normal for teenagers to follow the lives of their favorite stars, parents should try to monitor everything their child finds interesting. Parents should take action if they suspect a teen is too obsessed with celebrities and showing little interest in school or withdrawing from the family. When teens talk a lot about celebrities and view them as just means of entertainment, this is considered normal celebrity worship. However, when a teenager is obsessed with a star and often expresses a desire to have a close personal relationship with a celebrity or feels they have a special connection to a star, this may be the time for concern. Recent studies have shown that teens who develop an unhealthy obsession with celebrities often suffer from low self confidence and depression. Teens who are overly obsessed with stars often have damaged relationships with their parents.
小题1:The first paragraph is intended to tell us________.
A.parents needn’t worry about celebrity worship |
B.celebrity worship can cause serious problems |
C.it’s normal for a teen to have celebrity worship |
D.celebrity worship only exists among teens |
A.the media greatly contributes to celebrity worship today |
B.the author is surprised at celebrity worship |
C.teens today are not so obsessed with celebrities |
D.celebrities expose their lives too much |
A.talk a lot about celebrities with others |
B.put up celebrity posters in their bedrooms |
C.ask to go to their favourite star’s concert |
D.desire a close personal relationship with their favorite star |
A.parents should not care too much about a child’s celebrity worship |
B.celebrity worship syndrome can be a serious problem if left overlooked |
C.children can normally get out of celebrity worship when they are older |
D.children with celebrity worship usually have high opinion of themselves |
A.The harm of celebrity worship syndrome. |
B.More signs of celebrity worship syndrome. |
C.What to do with children’s celebrity worship syndrome. |
D.Who will suffer most from celebrity worship syndrome. |
Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.
But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium(奖金) price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.
小题1:What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.The influence of ice on the diet. |
B.The development of refrigeration. |
C.The transportation of goods to market. |
D.Sources of ice in the nineteenth century. |
A.in 1803 | B.sometime bore 1850 |
C.during the civil war | D.near the end of the nineteenth century. |
A.progressive | B.popular | C.thrifty | D.well-established |
A.many fish dealers also sold ice. |
B.fish was shipped in refrigerated freight cars. |
C.fish dealers were among the early commercial users of ice |
D.fish was not part of the ordinary person’s diet before the invention of the icebox. |
What’s far less understood by scientists, however, are the potentially harmful effects of goal-setting. Newspapers convey daily accounts of goal-setting widespread in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street, yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-advocated practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis, and immoral behavior in general.
“Goals are widely used and promoted as having really beneficial effects. And yet, the same motivation that can push people to put more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in immoral behaviors,” says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn’s Wharton School. His paper, titled “Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Praised Goal Setting,” appears in the February issue of the Academy of Management Perspectives.
“It turns out there’s no financial benefit to just having a goal---you just get a psychological benefit” Schweitzer says. “But in many cases, goals have financial rewards that make them more powerful.”
A major example Schweitzer and his colleagues give is the 2004 breakdown of energy-trading giant Enron( 德国安然公司), where managers used financial rewards to motivate salesmen to meet specific goals. The problem, Schweitzer says, is that the actual trades were not profitable.
Other studies have shown that burdening employees with unrealistic goals can force them to lie, cheat or steal. Such was the case in the early 1990s when Sears(西尔斯公司)placed a sales quota (销售限额) on its auto repair staff. It inspired employees to overcharge for work and to complete unnecessary repairs on a companywide basis.
Schweitzer admits his research runs counter to a very large body of literature that praises the many benefits of goal-setting. Advocates of the practice have argued with his team’s use of such evidence as news accounts to support his conclusion that goal-setting is widely over-praised.
In a rebuttal (反驳) paper, Dr. Edwin Locke writes: “Goal-setting is not going away. Organizations cannot grow without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can grow without goals to provide a sense of purpose.”
But Schweitzer argues the “evidence” linking goal-setting and harmful behavior should be studied to help draw attention to issues that deserve attention and further investigation. “Even a few negative effects could be so large that they outweigh many positive effects,” he says.
The debate is likely to get heated on in future papers, and the practice of setting goals no doubt will continue. For now, though, the lesson seems to be to put more thought into setting goals.
“Goal-setting does help motivate people. My idea would be to combine that with careful management, a strong organizational culture, and make sure the goals that you use are going to be constructive and not significantly harmful to the organization,” Schweitzer says.
小题1:What does Maurice Schweitzer want to show by mentioning the example of Enron?
A.Setting realistic goals can turn a failing business into success. |
B.Businesses are likely to succeed without realistic goals. |
C.Companies are certain to meet specific goals with financial rewards. |
D.Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power. |
A.They had to work more hours to increase their sales. |
B.They competed with one another to attract more customers. |
C.They turned to immoral practice to reach their goals. |
D.They improved their customer service on a companywide basis. |
A.agrees with | B.goes against | C.fits in with | D.applies to |
A.The practice of setting goals only helps people to develop. |
B.Goal-setting is of no use motivating people to accomplish their tasks. |
C.The positive effects of goal-setting outweigh its negative effects. |
D.Studying goal-setting can contribute to successful business practices. |
A.the goals that most people set are unrealistic. |
B.all people can improve their work quality by setting goals. |
C.setting goals can provide people with a sense of purpose. |
D.people should not ignore the negative effects of goal-setting. |
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite(无限的) applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can"t walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don"t dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to avoid.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:
"Yes, I"m glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What"s that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you"d be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. "So I don"t need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."
And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing?" I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
"Hello? Are you still there?" Oops.
小题1:According to the passage Fake Foning is _______________________.
A.a strategy to avoid people | B.a device newly produced |
C.a service provided everywhere | D.a skill of communication |
A.talk about interesting matters | B.behave politely to people passing by |
C.hold the phone while walking | D.appear absorbed in conversation |
A.One effective way is to fake fone one"s doctor. |
B.One has to be careful while fake foning. |
C.Fake foning may not cheat people. |
D.Fake foning is always quite successful. |
A.immediately started talking to the caller |
B.immediately started talking to his colleague |
C.put the phone away and stopped talking |
D.continued with his fake conversation |
A.Critical. | B.Humorous. | C.Serious. | D.Unclear. |
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