Question

Narayana Hrudayalaya, a complex of health centers based in southern India, offers low-cost, high-quality specialty care in a largely poor country of 1.2 billion people. By thinking differently about everything from the unusually high number of patients it treats to the millions for whom it provides insurance, the hospital group is able to continually reduce costs. Narayana Hrudayalaya’s operations include the world’s largest and most productive cardiac (心臟病的) hospital, where the average open-heart surgery runs less than $2,000, a third or less what it costs elsewhere in India.
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（創(chuàng)傷）, 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 shabbily 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（分銷商）.
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（保險費）. 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 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.’”

1. 1.
   Narayana Hrudayalaya started a micro-insurance to _______
   1. A.
      cut down on the cost of the treatment
   2. B.
      get the support of the government
   3. C.
      make the company run smoothly
   4. D.
      attract more people to its hospital
2. 2.
   We can infer from the passage that _______
   1. A.
      the cost of medicine care in India is very low
   2. B.
      Shetty wouldn’t have succeeded without Mother Teresa
   3. C.
      Shetty and his colleagues are likely to make home visits now
   4. D.
      Shetty has expanded his hospitals to most of other cities in India
3. 3.
   Why did Shetty build the massive cardiac center in 2001?
   1. A.
      He wanted to build a health city
   2. B.
      He was motivated and decided to help more people
   3. C.
      He intended to develop his career in different areas
   4. D.
      He meant to help more poor people get free treatment
4. 4.
   How would you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph ?
   1. A.
      It’s doing something and doing more that really matters
   2. B.
      It’s not easy to take positive action to contribute to society
   3. C.
      Healthcare workers are the holiest persons in the world
   4. D.
      Praying alone is of no significance in face of difficult situation

Answer 1

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試題分析：文章介紹Narayana Hrudayalaya是印度的綜合醫(yī)療機構(gòu)，它的目的是為什么提供低價格，高質(zhì)量的醫(yī)療服務(wù)，同時文章介紹了它的歷史，它的創(chuàng)始人shetty為什么要創(chuàng)辦它。
1.細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：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（保險費）.可知這么做是為了使醫(yī)院運轉(zhuǎn)正常。選 C
2.推斷題：從最后一段的句子：Inspired by her work with the poor, he then set out to create a hospital to deliver care based on need, not wealth. 可知他現(xiàn)在原因上門看診了。選C
3.推斷題：從第三段的句子：“This hospital is for poor people, but we also treat some rich people. We don’t look at people who are shabbily dressed and have trouble paying as outsiders.”可知醫(yī)院不僅是為窮人開放的，也要幫助有錢人，可知Shetty是積極的，樂意幫助更多的人。選B
4.句意理解題：雙手合十比只是嘴上祈禱要好，從最后一段的最后一句話可知要做一些真正重要的事情。選A
考點：考查社會現(xiàn)象類短文