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President George Bush is heading to Camp David for Thanksgiving,
thankful for his almost-expired "privilege of serving as the president." President-elect Barack Obama is staying in Chicago to "have a whole bunch of people over to the house" and squeeze in some Christmas shopping. On a holiday designed for reflection(回忆), one man, historically unpopular, is heading to a remote mountaintop with his family. The other, promising change, is surrounding himself with dozens of people in a busy city.
Dressed casually in a leather jacket and black scarf on Wednesday, Obama handed out food to the needy at a Chicago church with wife Michelle and their two daughters, shaking hands and happily telling people "you can call me Barack."
He followed that with a quick visit to a school next door, where he asked the excited kids, "Who's going to have turkey?" "Who's going to have
green beans?" "Who's going to have sweet potato pie?" Obama has shown a knack(窍门) for symbolism, in this case following the Thanksgiving tradition of helping the poor, said David Greenberg, a Rutgers University historian who is working on a history of political spin. "Here he's showing a different side of himself, the president as national conscience or moral authority. I think that's probably a good note for him to introduce in a transition period that's been so heavily focused on Wall Street and the financial system and these economic problems," he said. "He's not forgetting who these economic problems are hurting the most."
For Bush, his final Thanksgiving in office is proving a time for nostalgia. He always reflects a bit at Thanksgiving, but he went further
as he spared(放飞)the Thanksgiving turkey, "Pumpkin," on Wednesday. He gave thanks to troops and volunteers, to teachers and pastors, to all the American people. Then he gave thanks for his wife and twin daughters — "two Thanksgiving miracles who we were blessed with 27 years ago" — and that his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, was doing well after being hospitalized. "Most of all," he said, "I thank the American people for the tremendous privilege of serving as the president."
This Thanksgiving, Obama used the opportunity for a relatively rare public event with his wife and children, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10 — and a chance for a little lesson for the kids.
"I want them to learn the importance of how fortunate they are and to make sure they're giving back," he said of bringing the girls to the church.
And what's he thankful for?
"I just want you to know what I'm thankful for is my family and my friends and my community," he told the schoolchildren. "That's the most important thing."
1. The best title of the passage should be _______
A. Thanksgiving for Bush and Obama B. Thanksgiving Day
C. How to celebrate Thanksgiving Day D. Thanksgiving Day for presidents
答案解析：答案为A。本题考查文章的标题。全文报道了即将卸任的总统Bush和新选举的总统Obama各自在感恩节做的事情。故答案为A。
2. The underlined word “squeeze” in paragraph 2 is closest to _______ A. force B. push C. join D. take 答案解析：答案为C。本题为词义猜测题。结合下文的第三段 “On a holiday designed for reflection, one man, historically unpopular, is heading to a remote mountaintop with his family. The other, promising change, is surrounding himself with dozens of people in a busy city.”可知，“one man”指的是第一段提到的President George Bush，他和家人一起要去遥远的山顶;“The other”指的是第二段提到的President-elect Barack Obama，他在繁忙的城市中，周围都是人。可以推断，第二段写的是新选举的总统Obama加入了圣诞节的购物潮中，因此squeeze意思最接近 “join”，故答案为C。 3. Which of the following is NOT right according to the passge? A. Bush is thought highly of by the people in the article. B. Bush’s daughters are 27 years old now.
C. Obama visited some of the people who needed help.
D. Bush gave thanks to troops and volunteers, to teachers and pastors, to all the American people.
答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由第三段 “On a holiday designed for reflection, one man, historically unpopular, is heading to a remote mountaintop with his family.”可知，“one man”在历史上不受欢迎，结合上题的分析，“one man”指的是Bush，因此A选项“文中人们对Bush评价很高”错误，故答案为A。
第九段写的是Bush, 由文中 “He gave thanks to troops and volunteers, to teachers and pastors, to all the American people. Then he gave thanks for his wife and twin daughters — ‘two Thanksgiving miracles who we were blessed with 27 years ago’?”可知，B、D选项符合文意。由第四段 “Dressed casually in a leather jacket and black scarf on Wednesday, Obama handed out food to the needy at a Chicago church?”可知，C选项符合文意。 4. The passage suggests that _______
A It’s a tradition for a US president to spare a turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
B On Thanksgiving Day, Obama mainly has a get-together with his family and friends.
C Obama asked his two daughters to make contribution to the US economy. D Bush thinks it a honour and also a pity to be the US president. 答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节推理题，解答此题可用排除法。由第十一段
“This Thanksgiving, Obama used the opportunity for a relatively rare public event with his wife and children, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10 — and a chance for a little lesson for the kids.”可知，Obama利用这个机会和妻子孩子团聚，没有和朋友一起，故B选项错误。C、D选项未提。因此只有选择A选项“对于美国总统来说感恩节放飞火鸡是一种传统”，文中第八段提到 “For Bush, his final Thanksgiving in office is proving a time for nostalgia. He always reflects a bit at Thanksgiving, but he went further as he spared the Thanksgiving turkey, "Pumpkin," on Wednesday.” 由此可知，A选项是正确的。
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In March 2008，Joe Ryan got a notice from a billing agency for a hospital near Denver, Colorado. The hospital wanted payment for surgery totaling $ 41,188. Ryan had never set foot in that hospital. Obviously
there was some mistake. “I thought it was a joke,” says Ryan.
But when he called the billing agency，nobody laughed. Someone, who ’ s also named Joe Ryan, using Ryan's Social Security number, had indeed been admitted for surgery. He figured clearing this up would take a just few phone calls.
Two years later, Ryan continues to suffer from the damage to his credit rating and still doesn’t know if his medical record has been cleared of wrong information.
Joe Ryan was the victim of a little-known but frightening type of consumer cheating that is on the rise：medical identity theft, which involves using your name to get drugs, expensive medical treatment and even cheating insurance payments.
As Ryan discovered, money isn ’ t the half of it. When someone steals your name to receive health care, his medical history becomes part of your record—and setting the record straight can be extremely difficult. That ’ s because，in part，the information is handed out among dozens of care-givers, from doctors to medicine stores to insurance companies and labs.
"I wanted to help straighten this out,” says Ryan, ‘‘so I went to the hospital, and they had a three-inch-thick record for me, but they wouldn' t let me see it. I showed them my ID, and they said that’ s not Joe Ryan’ s signature. Well, of course not! They had this other guy ’ s signature. ”
Ryan had fallen into a victim’ s Catch-22： If your record doesn’ t appear to be yours, you may not have the right to read it, much less change it.
Ryan' s next step was a visit to the police department. But the police said that there was not much they could do, that the local law enforcement has little experience with medical ID theft, and cases like this can end up being considered a civil matter.
1. The billing agency sent Joe Ryan a notice to _______. A. play a joke on him for medical treatment B. inform him of the payment for his surgery
C. correct the mistakes about payment for his surgery D. clear up the wrong information in his medical record 答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节题。由第一段 “In March 2008，Joe Ryan got a notice from a billing agency for a hospital near Denver, Colorado. The hospital wanted payment for surgery totaling $ 41,188.”可知，the billing agency 通知Joe Ryan支付手术费用41,188美元，故答案为B。 2. Joe Ryan at first thought his problem was _________. A. easy to settle B. difficult to settle C. impossible to solve D. unnecessary to solve 答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节推理题。由第二段 “He figured clearing this up would take a just few phone calls.” 可知，Joe Ryan刚开始认为只要打几个电话就可以解决问题，故答案为A。
3. The number of medical identity theft cases in the United States is _______.
A. increasing B. decreasing C. countable D. changeable 答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由第四段首句 “Joe Ryan was the victim of a little-known but frightening type of consumer cheating that is on the rise：medical identity theft?”可知，医疗身份盗窃在美国正在增加，故答案为A。
4. An even worse consequence of medical ID theft is ________. A. some trouble in obtaining insurance payment B. a big loss of money and damage to credit rating C. the widely spread medical information of the victim D. the difficulty in changing the wrong medical history
答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。由第五段可知，当别人盗用了你的名字来享受医疗服务后，他的医疗史就成为了你的医疗史，并且清除这些错误记录极其困难，因为你的信息已经给了许多照料者，包括医生、药店、保险公司和实验室。因此，医疗身份盗窃更糟糕的结果是受害者的医疗信息到处传播。故答案为C。干扰项最强的D选项“改变错误的医疗史非常困难”只是医疗身份盗窃的一个直接结果，但不是更糟糕的，因此排除D选项。
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