单选题 Top National Health Service (NHS) nurses will be able to earn $ 40,000 a year without leaving frontline patient care in a modification to salary structures. New "super nurse" grades will be created to enable the best staff to increase their salaries without having to move into management desk jobs. Currently the most senior NHS nurses can earn a maximum $ 28,000 a year unless they are willing to withdraw from the frontline and become administrators. Hundreds of experienced and highly-qualified nurses are lost to patient care every year because of this oddity.
While only a few thousand of Britain's 332,000 NHS nurses will qualify for the $ 40,000-plus salary, fast-track promotion schemes and a simpler grading system will increase the pay of many more. The government announced that a new simplified career structure would see just four grades replacing the existing six. Nurses will begin their careers as healthcare assistants before moving up to registered practitioner grade, followed by senior registered practitioner and ultimately, consultant practitioner and a $ 40,000 salary.
"Nurses are rising to the challenge of modernisation," said a government official. "These proposals will help them improve their professional role further and provide a better service to patients. We do not think that in order to be paid more, nurses should have to move into management. Nur-ses working at the sharp end of patient care should have a career structure which no longer penalises them for wanting to stay there. "
The Nursing Strategy will include proposals to allow more flexible training courses and improve oppommities for qualified nurses who have left the profession to return in parttime roles. The Royal College of Nursing welcomed the reforms. The top salary level falls into line with figures it had presented to ministers.

单选题 Hundreds of experienced nurses are lost to patient care every year because they ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。从文章第一段第四句话“Hundreds of experienced and highly-qualified nurses are lost to the patient care each year because of this oddity”得知，护士们是不满足之前的低薪水，所以离开了护理一线。故选B。
单选题 The new system will mostly benefit those who ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。从文章第一段第二句话“enable the best staff to increase their salaries”得知，受益最大的是级别最高的护士。故选D。
单选题 The new career structure is different from the existing one in its ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。从文章第二段第二句话“The government announced that a new simplified career structure would see just four grades replacing the existing six.”得知，新规定的特点是简化了护士的等级，由六级减为四级。故选D。
单选题 The Nursing Strategy will be adopted in order to ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[精析] 推理题。由文中得知，新规定的目的就是增加护士的收入，故选C。
单选题 The Royal College of Nursing ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精析] 细节题。从文章第四段第三句话“The top salary level falls into line with figures it had presented to the ministers.”得知，皇家护理学院为护士提出了与部长们相似的顶级工资。故选A。