Model Test 3-news

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. If you contact the customer service department of a government agency [01:13.96]or a major U.S. company, [01:16.00]or order something over the phone, [01:18.69]it’s likely that your call will be answered [01:21.13]by someone with a disability, [01:23.47]working from their home. [01:25.16]It could be on a farm in Iowa, [01:27.79]or a small town in the Vermont Mountains. [01:30.33]It’s one example [01:31.88]how computer technologies is giving disabled people easier access [01:36.65]to job market. [01:38.30]Ed McCann is one of more than 300 disabled order entry clerks [01:43.57]in 42 states who are working for the Internal Revenue Service, [01:48.45]the IRS. [01:49.89]“The calls that come in for forms and publication orders to the IRS [01:54.82]come to me, [01:56.06]and I take information for processing those forms. [01:59.89]People who call me sometimes are not really clear [02:03.48]on what exactly they would need [02:05.77]and I’d give them the assistance and guidance [02:08.70]determining what they would need.” 1. What is the news report mainly about?A)Working for the Internal Revenue Service B) A special service C)The daily life of the disabled D)Technology bringing jobs to the disabled 2. How many disabled clerks working for the IRS? A)303 B)300 C)305 D)42 Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship [03:03.28]with local authorities in violence-racked Helmand province, [03:06.81]due in part to its policy of treating all patients. [03:10.49]Afghan officials said [03:12.58]they arrested three Italian Emergency workers Saturday, [03:15.92]a doctor, a nurse and a logistics worker. [03:19.10]Afghan officials said [03:20.74]they were held as part of an investigation into an unproved plot [03:25.27]to kill the governor of Helmand province. [03:27.61]Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said [03:31.39]an Emergency staff member received 500,000 dollars [03:35.08]as an advance payment for killing him. [03:37.91]In total nine people, [03:40.00]including six Afghans, [03:41.60]were held after hand bombs and other weapons were discovered [03:45.48]in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital [03:47.92]in Helmand’s capital, Lashkar Gah. [03:50.95]Emergency founder Gino Strada [03:53.49]scolded the charge of the aid group’s three workers. 3 .What happened on Saturday? A)three Emergency workers were arrected by Afghan authorities B)The Afghan officials investigated the cause of a murder case C)The governor of Helmand Province was murdered by an Emergency staff D)There was an explosive suicide in Helmand's hospital 4. What do we learn about the Italian aid group Emergency? A)Someone was accused of receiving advance payment for murdering the governor B)Nothing was found in the Emergency-run hospital C)Six people from the Emergency have been involved in the murdering case D)The founder of the Italian aid group Emergency was unknow Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. If a new idea in America becomes a law, [04:49.55]people who suffer from obesity could suffer financially too. [04:53.83]The US state of Arizona wants to charge overweight citizens 50 dollars annually [05:00.60]if they fail to follow their doctors’ advice. [05:04.28]People with children or who are overweight [05:07.31]because they suffer from a medical condition would be excluded. [05:11.34]If the idea is approved by Congress, [05:14.33]smokers and diabetics who fail to stick to a healthy lifestyle [05:18.96]will also have to pay. [05:21.55]Medicaid, [05:22.59]the organisation which provides healthcare to the poor in the USA, [05:27.17]costs the government 339 billion dollars a year. [05:31.90]Monica Coury, [05:33.45]assistant director at Arizona’s Medicaid programme, [05:36.84]said that this proposal would ask people to give something back. [05:41.72]She said that Arizona would take a carrot [05:44.90]and stick approach to the problem. [05:47.14]As well as punishing people who go against their doctor’s wishes, [05:51.27]awards would be offered for following advice, [05:54.31]possibly a keep-fit video. [05:56.69]Arizona’s senator Kyrsten Sinema has not backed the plans, [06:01.72]saying that there isn’t a system to decide [06:04.61]whether someone is or isn’t following medical advice. [06:09.42]Other critics claim [06:10.96]that people don’t need the government to look after them; [06:14.16]if they want to be fat and smoke, [06:16.29]the “nanny state” shouldn’t try to stop them. 5. What is the new idea of Arizona? A)People who don't follow doctors' advice should pay tax B)Taxes collection on overweight people needs to be enhanced C)Parents should pay tax for thier overweight children in Arizona D)Doctor's advice for fat people is not offered on the Internet 6. What is Medicaid? A)An Arizona's Medicaid programme B)A punishment system C)A reward mechanism D)A healthcare organisation 7. Why do Kyrsten Sinema go against the plans? A)He himself is very fat too B)The assessment system is not sound C)people should have their own freedom D) It may cause a lot of social problems