[face=Georgia]Coherent solutions for the problem of reducing health-care costs cannot be found within the current piecemeal system of paying these costs. The reason is that this system gives health-care providers and insurers every incentive to shift, wherever possible, the costs of treating illness onto each other or any other party, including the patient. That clearly is the lesson of the various reforms of the 1980s; push in on one part of this pliable spending balloon and an equally expensive bulge pops up elsewhere. For example, when the government health-care insurance program for the poor cut costs by disallowing payments for some visits to physicians, patients with advanced illness later presented themselves at hospital emergency rooms in increased numbers.
7. The argument proceeds by
(A) showing that shifting costs onto the patient contradicts the premise of health-care reimbursement
(B) attribution without justification fraudulent intent to people
(C) employing an analogy to characterize interrelationships
(D) denying the possibility of a solution by disparaging each possible alternative system
(E) demonstrating that cooperation is feasible by citing an instance
8. The argument provides the most support for which one of the following?
(A) Under the conditions in which the current system operates, the overall volume of health-care costs could be shrunk, if at all, only by a comprehensive approach
(B) Relative to the resources available for health-care funding, the income of the higher-paid health-care professionals is too high.
(C) Health-care costs are expanding to meet additional funds that have been made available for them.
(D) Advances in medical technology have raised the expected standards of medical care but have proved expensive.
(E) Since unfilled hospital beds contribute to overhead charges on each patient’s bill, it would be unwise to hold unused hospital capacity in reserve for large-scale emergencies.
这个题目根本没有读懂，请教！
When Alicia Green borrowed a neighbor’s car without permission, the police merely gave her a warning. However, when Peter Foster did the same thing, he was charged with automobile theft. Peter came to the attention of the police because the car he was driving was hit by a speeding taxi. Alicia was stopped because the car she was driving had defective taillights. It is true that the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not, but since it was the taxi that caused the damage this difference was not due to any difference in the blameworthiness of their behavior. Therefore, Alicia should also have been charged with automobile theft.
18. The statement that the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not plays which one of the following roles in the argument?
(A) It presents a reason that directly supports the conclusion.
(B) It justifies the difference in the actual outcome in the two cases.
(C) It demonstrates awareness of a fact on which a possible objection might be based.
(D) It illustrates a general principle on which the argument relies.
(E) It summarizes a position against which the argument is directed.
19. If all of the claims offered in support of the conclusion are accurate, each of the following could be true EXCEPT:
(A) The interests of justice would have been better served if the police had released Peter Foster with a warning.
(B) Alicia Green had never before driven a car belonging to someone else without first securing the owner’s permission.
(C) Peter Foster was hit by the taxi while he was running a red light, whereas Alicia Green drove with extra care to avoid drawing the attention of the police to the car she had taken.
(D) Alicia Green barely missed hitting a pedestrian when she sped through a red light ten minutes before she was stopped by the police for driving a car that had defective taillights.
(E) Peter Foster had been cited for speeding twice in the preceding month, whereas Alicia Green had never been cited for a traffic violation.
8: 原文结论是第一句： Coherent solutions for the problem of reducing health-care costs cannot be found within the current piecemeal system of paying these costs 然后说明原因：政府的政策都是拆东强补西墙。。。所以A
18. 两个人都偷车，处罚却不一样。。 It is true that the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not, but since 可以看出原文举了个FACT，并做了让步。。但是准备反驳。正是C的意思。。
E总结了ARGUMENT要反对的观点（或立场）不对，这是个FACT。。。
19 原文说Peter Foster不应该be charged, becuase he does not offend the law.. C违反了这个意思，C说C) Peter Foster是因为穿红灯被撞的... 不罚他罚谁啊？
两个疑问：18. The statement that the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not plays which one of the following roles in the argument? 这个题目说的是“did not plays which one of the following roles in the argument”？？
我认为18的问题应该是： The statement that“ the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not ”plays which one of the following roles in the argument? did not修饰the car alica took
对19我还是不懂。 19 If all of the claims offered in support of the conclusion are accurate, each of the following could be true EXCEPT: 我理解conclusion应该是Alicia should also have been charged with automobile theft. 不知各位XDJM是如何理解conclusion的
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