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单选题A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care bill. Or you can look for an easy way out, make excuses and fail the test of history.
Tuesday's Republican victory in the Massachusetts special election means that Democrats can't send a modified health care bill back to the Senate. That's a shame because the bill that would have emerged from House-Senate negotiations would have been better than the bill the Senate has already passed. ① But the Senate bill is much, much better than nothing. And all that has to happen to make it law is for the House to pass the same bill, and send it to President Obama's desk. Right now, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, says that she doesn't have the votes to pass the Senate bill. But there is no good alternative.
Some are urging Democrats to scale back their proposals in the hope of gaining Republican support. But anyone who thinks that would work must have spent the past year living on another planet. The fact is that the Senate bill is a centrist document, which moderate Republicans should find entirely acceptable. In fact, it's very similar to the plan Mitt Romney introduced in Massachusetts just a few years ago. Yet it has faced lock-step opposition from the G. O. P. , which is determined to prevent Democrats from achieving any successes.② Why would this change now that Republicans think they're on a roll?
Alternatively, some call for breaking the health care plan into pieces so that the Senate can vote the popular pieces into law. But anyone who thinks that would work hasn't paid attention to the actual policy issues. Think of health care reform as being like a three-legged stool．You would, rightly, ridicule anyone who proposed saving money by leaving Off one or two of the legs. Well, those who propose doing only the popular pieces of health care reform deserve the same kind of ridicule.
Now what about the suggestion that Democrats use reconciliation to enact health reform? That's a real option, which may become necessary. But reconciliation, which is basically limited to matters of taxing and spending，probably can't be used to enact many important aspects of reform. ③ In fact, it's not even clear if it could be used to ban discrimination based on medical history.
Ladies and gentlemen, the nation is waiting. Stop whining, and do what needs to be done.阅读以上文章，回答题We can infer that the author is __________ Democrats' proposals in the health care bill.

A． in favor of
B． in opposition to
C． indifferent to
D． doubtful about

参考答案A

解析:文章大意
本文是一篇呼吁民主党议员齐心协力通过医改方案的议论文。开篇提出主旨：呼吁民主党议员做应该做的事情。第二段对医改方案的情况进行说明，接下来的三段分别探讨了三种有关如何通过医改方案的建议，分析为什么这几种方法均不可行。末段首尾呼应，再次呼吁民主党议员要采取行动，争取通过医改方案。
长难句注释
1．That’s a shame because the bill that would have emerged from House-Senate negotiations would have been better than the bill the Senate has already passed．
【分析】本句为主从复合句。主句主干为That’s a shame。because引导原因状语从句，the bill would have been better than the bill是该从句主干结构，而that would have emerged from House-Senate negotiations是第一个bill的定语从句；the Senate has already passed是第二个bill的定语从句。
【译文】这是让人羞愧之事，因为原本可以经参众两院商议出炉的医改方案会强于已经在参议院获得通过的方案。2．Yet it has faced lock-step opposition from the G．O．P．，which is determined to prevent Democrats from achieving any successes．
【分析】本句为主从复合句。主句主干为it has faced lock-step opposition。which is determined to prevent Democrats from achieving any successes是G．O．P．的定语从句。
【译文】然而，医改方案得到共和党的一致反对，共和党决心不让民主党取得任何成绩。
3．But reconciliation，which is basically limited to matters

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单选题The suggestion to scale back Democrats' proposals for Republican support seems to be __________．

A． plausible
B． infeasible
C． practical
D． moderate

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单选题The author is opposed to breaking the health care bill into pieces because

A． it will be blamed
B． it will waste time
C． it's useless to do that way
D． it should remain intact

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单选题It can be inferred that in the health care bill, there are some pieces concerning __________．

A． taxing and spending
B． medical discrimination
C． the limited reform
D． necessary steps

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