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Peek through the inspection windows of the nearly 100 three-dimensional (3D) printers quietly making things at RedEye, a company based in Minnesota, and you can catch a glimpse of how factories will work in the future. It is not simply that the machines run day and night【C1】______by just a handful of technicians.【C2】______it is what they are making that shows how this revolutionary production process is【C3】______the manufacturing mainstream. 3D printers make things by building them up, a layer at a time,【C4】______a particular material, rather than【C5】______it by cutting, drilling or machining—which is why the process is also called additive manufacturing. There are many ways in which this can be done, and with only a【C6】______adjustment of software each item can be different,【C7】______the need for costly retooling of machines. This has made 3D printing a【C8】______way to make one-off items, especially prototype parts, mock-ups, small mechanical【C9】______and craft items. And that is about all that 3D printers are good for,【C10】______the doubters. Chief among them is Terry Gou, the boss of Foxconn. He thinks 3D printing is just "a trick" without any【C11】______value in the manufacture of real finished goods, and he has vowed to start spelling his name backwards if【C12】______wrong. Mr. Gou is right about one thing: additive manufacturing is not about to replace mass manufacturing.【C13】______the technology is improving, the finish and durability of some printed items can still【C14】______what producers require. And nor can 3D printers produce millions of【C15】______parts at low cost, as mass-production lines can.【C16】______3D printers have their【C17】______which is why they are starting to be used by some of the world's biggest manufacturers, such as Airbus, Boeing, GE, Ford and Siemens. The market for 3D printers and【C18】______is small, but growing fast. Last year it was worth $2.2 billion worldwide, up 29% from 2011. As producers become more【C19】______with the technology, they are moving from prototypes to final【C20】______.

Large, multinational corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy's vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and factories. Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ 60 percent of the workforce and expected to generate half of all new jobs between now and the year 2 000. Some 1. 2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past 6 years of economic growth, and 1989 will see an additional 200 000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own. Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealists will overestimate the clamor(大声的要求) for their products or fail to factor in the competition. Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires. Midcareer executives, forced by a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way to support themselves, may savor(欣赏) the idea of being their own boss but may forget that entrepreneurs must also, at least for a while, be bookkeepers and receptionists, too. According to Small Business Administration data, 24 of every 100 businesses starting out today are likely to disappear in two years, and 27 more will have shut their doors four years from now. By 1995, more than 60 of those 100 start-ups will have folded. A new study of 3 000 small businesses, sponsored by American Express and the National Federation of Independent Business, suggests slightly better odds: three years after start-up, 77 percent of the companies surveyed were still alive. Most credited their success in large part to having picked a business they already were comfortable in. Eighty percent had worked with the same product or service in their last jobs. Thinking through an enterprise before the launch is obviously critical. But many entrepreneurs forget that a firm's health in its infancy may be little indication of how well it will age. You must tenderly monitor its pulse. In their zeal to expand, small business owners often ignore early warning signs of a stagnant(停滞的) market or of decaying profitability. They hopefully pour more and more into the enterprise, preferring not to acknowledge eroding profit margins that means the market for their ingenious service or product has evaporated, or that they must cut the payroll or vacate their lavish offices. Only when the financial well runs dry do they see the seriousness of the illness, and by then the patient is usually too far gone to save. Frequent checks of your firm's vital signs will also guide you to a sensible rate of growth. To snatch opportunity, you must spot the signals that it is time to conquer the new markets, add products or perhaps franchise(给予特权) your hot ideas.[A] sufficient preparation for his new business[B] the ups and downs of the transnational corporations[C] about 2 400 small enterprises alive[D] the number of workers[E] about 2 310 small enterprises alive[F] the careful thought about the small enterprises[G] the fate of the small businesses such as small plants and restaurants

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Institutions of higher learning must move, as the historian Walter Russell Mead puts it, from a model of "time served" to a model of "stuff learned." Because increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know. And therefore it will not pay for a C-plus in chemistry, just because your state college considers that a passing grade and was willing to give you a diploma. We' re moving to a more competency-based world, where there will be less interest in how you acquired the competency and more demand to prove that you mastered the competency. Therefore, we have to get beyond the current system of information and delivery—the professorial "sage on the stage" and students taking notes, followed by a superficial assessment, to one in which students are asked and empowered to master more basic material online at their own pace, and the classroom becomes a place where the application of that knowledge can be honed through lab experiments and discussions with the professor. There seemed to be a strong consensus that this "blended model" combining online lectures with a teacher-led classroom experience was the ideal. Last fall, San Jose State used the online lectures and interactive exercises of MIT's introductory online Circuits and Electronics course. Students would watch the MIT lectures and do the exercises at home. Then in class, the first 15 minutes were reserved for questions and answers with the San Jose State professor, and the last 45 were devoted to problem-solving and discussion. Preliminary numbers indicate that those passing the class went from nearly 60 percent to about 90 percent. We demand that plumbers and kindergarten teachers be certified to do what they do, but there is no requirement that college professors know how to teach. No more . The world of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) is creating a competition that will force every professor to improve his or her pedagogy or face an online competitor. Bottom line: There is still huge value in the residential college experience and the teacher-student and student-student interactions it facilitates. But to thrive, universities will have to nurture even more of those unique experiences while blending in technology to improve education outcomes in measurable ways at lower costs. We still need more research on what works, but standing still is not an option.

If you have ever wondered how an elephant smells, scientists have the answer. Researchers have discovered that African Elephants have the largest number of genes【C1】______smell of any mammal. Given the size of their trunks, and how important it is【C2】______their survival, it is probably unsurprising that an elephant"s nose is not only the longest in the animal kingdom, but also the most effective. In【C3】______, humans and other primates have a poor sense of smell. "The functions of these genes are not well known,【C4】______they are likely important for the living environment of African elephants," said author Dr Yoshihito Niimura of the University of Tokyo. "【C5】______, an elephant"s nose is not only long but also superior. " The sense of smell is【C6】______to all mammals, and they use it for【C7】______food, finding mates and locating their offspring. In a study published in Genome Research, scientists【C8】______the 13 mammal species and found that African Elephants have twice the number of smell genes【C9】______dogs and five times more than humans. They have around 2,000 genes alone that are associated with scent. Humans in comparison have just under 400 and some other primates even【C10】______. The study found that 20,000 genes are【C11】______for the sense of smell in mammals, of which around half are functional, but the collections【C12】______for each species. Horses have around 1,000 smell genes, rabbits around 750 and rats about 1,200. "The large repertoire of elephant (smell) genes might be attributed to elephants" heavy【C13】______on scent in various contexts, including social【C14】______and reproduction," added Dr Niimura. African and Asian elephants possess a【C15】______scent organ behind each eye, and male elephants can produce a special substance during annual mating, which is characterized【C16】______increased aggressiveness. And【C17】______studies have revealed that, African elephants can reportedly【C18】______between two Kenyan ethnic groups—the Maasai, whose young men【C19】______manhood by spearing elephants, and the Kamba, who are agricultural people that【C20】______little threat to elephants through smell.

It is common knowledge that healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables contain certain nutrients that promote good health—namely vitamins and minerals that are essential to the body. However, once these compounds enter the body and become digested, do they still possess the same healthful【C1】______? Do they still perform the desired action to create a【C2】______result? That is what researchers at Newcastle University recently set out to【C3】______. Scientists analyzed the polyphenols, a type of antioxidant, in green tea to see how they【C4】______the body once digested.【C5】______the polyphenols in tea are known for health benefits, Dr. Ed Okello and his team wanted to better understand how these polyphenols act once【C6】______the body. Their study, which was recently published in the journal, showed that the chemicals【C7】______the breakdown of polyphenols were more effective at promoting health than the polyphenols【C8】______. "There are certain chemicals we know to be【C9】______and we can identify foods which are rich in them but what happens during the digestion process is【C10】______to whether these foods are actually doing us any good," said Dr. Okello. The research showed that【C11】______the polyphenols were digested in the gut, the resulting compounds had a greater ability to bind to toxic substances. "Green tea has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries and what we have here provides the scientific【C12】______why it may be effective【C13】______some of the key diseases we face today." Tea is one of the many common and natural dietary【C14】______in Asian cultures shown by modern science to have【C15】______unique health benefits. Mushrooms are another common food that has been【C16】______for centuries. They are used【C17】______in many cooking, (notably Chinese, Korean, European, Japanese and Indian). They are also used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for their ability to promote immune health. Certain species of mushrooms have great【C18】______abilities to regulate the immune system and promote【C19】______within the body. These mushroom species【C20】______benefits even after digestion and absorption into the blood stream.

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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of enlightenment and freedom. Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus lie in the hearts of all. They are not film stars,【C1】______idols of worship. They are great inspirational figures whose example is there to be followed. They act as our role models today. Just as they reached Self-Re-alization,【C2】______may we. Many of you may worry that you are【C3】______to meet the challenges that lie ahead. I want to【C4】______you that you can. I am a man who started from【C5】______; I was heavily disadvantaged in many ways. After much time and effort, I began to reach somewhere. I literally【C6】______from darkness to light, from mortal sickness to health, from crude【C7】______to immersion in the ocean of knowledge by one means alone, namely by enthusiastic【C8】______in the art and science of yoga practice. What held good for me will hold good for you too. Today you also have the benefit of many gifted yoga teachers. When I began yoga, there was, I am sorry to say, no wise, kind teacher to【C9】______me. In fact my own instructor refused to answer any of my innocent【C10】______on yoga. He did not【C11】______me as I do my students, offering them step-by-step guidance【C12】______a posture. He would simply demand a posture and【C13】______it to me or his other students to【C14】______how it could be realized. Perhaps that stimulated some stubborn【C15】______of my nature, which allied to unshakable faith in the subject of yoga made me burn to【C16】______. I am passionate, and maybe I needed to show the world that I was not【C17】______. But far more than that, I wanted to find out who I was. I wanted to understand this mysterious and【C18】______"yoga," which could reveal to us our innermost【C19】______, as equally as it revealed those of the universe【C20】______us and our place in it as joyful, suffering, puzzled human beings.

Consumer products such as shampoos and sunscreens, even ones boosted as safer, may contain potentially harmful chemicals not listed on their labels, according to a study out today that tested dozens of them. Chemicals that【C1】______hormones or affect health were found in all 42 of conventional products sampled, as well as in most—32 of 43—of the alternative products【C2】______as safer, including some by Seventh Generation, the study says. The scientific group studies the【C3】______between the environment and women's health. "It was【C4】______," says Julia Brody, co-author of the findings. She says consumers using a typical array of products are【C5】______many harmful chemicals. Seventh Generation, which makes six of the alternative products tested, welcomed the study's goal of e-ducating consumers【C6】______questioned its method. Martin Wolf, its director of product sustainability, says the company【C7】______none of the chemicals the study found in three of its products. "The fact that trace amounts were found raises questions" about possible cross-contamination in either【C8】______or testing, he says. "There are so many【C9】______chemicals in this world that they're finding their way【C10】______everything." John Spengler, a professor of environmental health at Harvard School of Public Health, who was not【C11】______the study, says the work is "very important" for improving health concerns and【C12】______companies to possible cross-contamination in products, whether from the supply【C13】______or the packaging. "You don't want to worry people【C14】______a reasonable extent," he says, adding that trace amounts of some chemicals may not pose a problem.【C15】______, he says, there's an "interactive" accumulating effect from broad use of chemicals, 【C16】______it's important to look at them as a group. The study, which tested for 66 chemicals and found 55 of them in the products, says sunscreens and fragrant products had the most【C17】______chemicals and some of the highest concentrations. Brody, who says there needs to be a more【C18】______listing and testing of a product's ingredients,【C19】______consumers to use fewer products, seek plantbased ingredients and rely on【C20】______water, baking soda and vinegar for cleaning.

You are writing a master's thesis and need some reference materials. Write a letter to Professor Richard and ask for his help, for he is the distinguished authority and has published quite a few important books related to your thesis. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not use your own name at the end of the notice. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address. (10 points)

BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

As a young bond trader, Buttonwood was given two pieces of advice, trading rules of thumb, if you will: that bad economic news is good news for bond markets and that every utterance dropping from the lips of Paul Volcker, the then chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the man who restored the central bank's credibility by stomping on runaway inflation, should be respected than Pope's orders. Today's traders are, of course, a more sophisticated bunch. But the advice still seems good, apart from two slight drawbacks. The first is that the well-chosen utterances from the present chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, is of more than passing difficulty. The second is that, of late, good news for the economy has not seemed to upset bond investors all that much. For all the cheer that has crackled down the wires, the yield on ten-year bonds—which you would expect to rise on good economic news—is now, at 4. 2% , only two-fifths of a percentage point higher than it was at the start of the year. Pretty much unmoved, in other words. Yet the news from the economic front has been better by far than anyone could have expected. On Tuesday November 25th, revised numbers showed that America's economy grew by an annual 8.2% in the third quarter, a full percentage point more than originally thought, driven by the ever-spendthrift American consumer and, for once, corporate investment. Just about every other piece of information coming out from special sources shows the same strength. New houses are still being built at a fair clip. Exports are rising, for all the protectionist crying. Even employment, in what had been mocked as a jobless recovery, increased by 125 000 or thereabouts in September and October. Rising corporate profits, low credit spreads and the biggest-ever rally in the junk-bond market do not, on the face of it, suggest anything other than a deep and long-lasting recovery. Yet Treasury-bond yields have fallen. If the rosy economic backdrop makes this odd, making it doubly odd is an apparent absence of foreign demand. Foreign buyers of Treasuries, especially Asian central banks, who had been swallowing American government debt like there was no tomorrow, seem to have had second thoughts lately. In September, according to the latest available figures, foreigners bought only $ 5.6 billion of Treasuries, compared with $ 25. 1 billion the previous month and an average of $ 38. 7 billion in the preceding four months. In an effort to keep a lid on the yen's rise, the Japanese central bank is still busy buying dollars and parking the money in government debt. Just about everybody else seems to have been selling.[A] fairly well-chosen[B] rising rather slowly[C] setting a limit on yen's rise[D] buying American government debt bravely[E] spending more and more cautiously[F] carelessly selected[G] domestic consumers

Exercise has innumerable health benefits, but losing weight may not be among them. A provocative new study shows that a substantial number of people who take up an exercise regimen wind up heavier afterward than they were at the start, with the weight gain due mostly to extra fat, not muscle. But the study also finds, for the first time, that one simple strategy may improve people' s odds of actually dropping pounds with exercise. As we all know, the fundamentals of weight loss should be simple. Burn more calories on any given day than you consume and, over time, you will lose weight. Theoretically, we can achieve that desirable condition by reducing the number of calories that we take in through dieting or by increasing the number of calories that we consume through exercise. But in reality, most people do not achieve or sustain weight loss, no matter what method they try.

What are the roads not taken because students must take out loans for college? For one thing, it appears that people with student loans are less likely to start businesses of their own. A new study has found that areas with higher relative growth in student debt show lower growth in the formation of small businesses. The correlation makes sense. People normally have only a certain amount of "debt capacity". When students use up their "debt capacity" on student loans, they can't commit it elsewhere. Given the importance of an entrepreneur's personal debt capacity in financing a start-up business, student loan debt, which cannot be discharged via bankruptcy, can have lasting effects later in life and may impact the ability of future small-business owners to raise capital. Considering that 60 percent of jobs are created by small business, "if you shut down the ability to create new businesses, you're going to harm the economy," said Brent Ambrose, a professor of risk management at Pennsylvania State University. Student loan debt also appears to be affecting homeownership trends. According to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fewer 30-year-olds in general have bought homes since the recession, but the decline has been steeper for people with a history of student loan debt and has continued even as the housing market has recovered. Student loan debt may also affect career choices. Having a college loan appears to reduce the likelihood that people will choose a low-paying public-interest job, according to a 2011 study by Jesse Rothstein of the University of California, Berkeley, and Cecilia Elena Rouse of Princeton. They arrived at their conclusion by studying a well-off university that began meeting students' financial needs through a combination of work-study money and grants, and dispensing with loans altogether. Before the new policy started in the early 2000s, students were more likely to choose well-paid professions like investment banking and consulting. After the policy took effect, more students chose jobs in areas like teaching and the nonprofit sector. In many cases, the choices that student borrowers make are just common sense, based on the financial realities they face. If society wants to change the skewing effect of student loans, some tough decisions about allocating educational resources may well lie ahead.

In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following information. Make comments and express your own opinion. You should write at least 150 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. 以往很多人报考成人高校，是为了圆文凭梦，如今，手持本科、硕士文凭，回头重新考大学的大有人在。据报道，今年报名全国成人高考的上海考生中，有390名本科毕业生，15名硕士生。 写一篇至少150字左右的作文对此现象进行评论并表达自己的意见。

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Thesymmetryiselegant:almostabillionpeopleintheworldlackaccesstocleanwater,whilethesocialmediasitesFacebookandTwitterhaveroughlythesamenumberofusers.MarryingthetwoisWaterForward,asitelaunchedlastyearthataimstoraisemoneyfor-drinkingwaterinpoorcountries.Designedasanonlinephotoalbum,usersbuyspaceforfriendsat$10perportrait.Thefundsgotoanorganisationcalledcharity:water,whichhassince2006collectedover$40m,muchofitonline.Othercharitiesareeagertoexploitthefund-raisingpotentialofsocialmedia.Nineoutoftennon-profitsinAmericahaveapresenceonFacebookaccordingtothelatestNonprofitSocialNetworkBenchmark(NSNB)report,asurveyofnearly11,200non-profitprofessionals.TheInternetaboundswithsocial-networkingtoolsraisingmoneyforgoodworks,suchasCauses(anapplicationonFacebook),CrowdriseandNetworkforGood.Thesesitesandplatformsletusersconnectwithcharitiesandeachother,planevents,donatedirectlyorcreateprojectstofund-raiseamongfriends.OnCauses,forexample,participantscanuseabirthdaytorallyfriendstogivetoaparticularcharity.Butsocialmediaarenogoldminefordo-gooders.Fewerthanhalfthenon-profitssurveyedintheNSNBreportgotmorethan$10,000ayearfromFacebook,andonly0.4%reportedraising$100,000ormore.AsurveybyBlackbaud,asoftwareandserviceproviderforcharities,predictsariseindonationsin2012,butnosignificantgainsfromsocialmedia.Traditionalfund-raising,usingdirectmailandevents,isfarmoreeffectivethannewermethods,suchase-mailandsocialnetworking.Thecharitiesthatraisealotfromsocialmediavarywidelyinsizeandbudgets.ButeachhasanaverageFacebookfollowingofnearly100,000,morethan15timesthenorm,accordingtotheNSNBreport.Theyalsonowdedicatelotsofstafftimetosocialmediaandhavecarefullyfollowedthesuccessoftheirfund-raising.AllisonFine,co-authorofabookcalledTheNetworkedNonprofit,arguesthatsocialmediaofferahandy,low-costwaytobuildanetworkofsupporterswhoshareideasandinformation.Butdonationscomeonlywhenthebondsarestrongandthenetworkisbig.Themostsuccessfulcharitiestendtoshowdonorswhattheirfundingwillachieve.Charity:watercountsthenumberofwellsdugandrainwatercatchmentsbuilt.DonorsChoose,anotheronlinecharity,hasraisedmorethan$101mbylettingpeoplefundprojectsatAmericanpublicschools."Alotofcharitiesmayfeellikeit'sslowgoing,"saysKatieBisbeeofDonorsChoose.Sheaddsthatfanpagesaregoodforrelationships,butforfund-raisingthemostprofitabletoolistogetdonorstosharenewsoftheirdonationontheirownFacebookpage.Throughthesocialnetwork,DonorsChooseraised$2minthe2010-2011schoolyear.Thisbeliesthechargethatnetworkeddo-goodersare"slacktivists".SotoodoesastudyfromGeorgetownUniversityandOgilvyPR,apublic-relationsfirm,whichfindsthatAmericanswhobackcausesthroughsocialmediaareoftenactiveinotherwaystoo.Soacampaignthatdoesnotraisemoneyatfirstmaystillluresupportersandpotentialfuturedonors.

The typical picture of a corporate highflier is someone who survives on very little sleep. He or she rises when it is still dark, works late and is still answering emails at two o' clock in the morning. Such people do exist, of course. The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for example, was famous for operating on a few hours' sleep. Some entrepreneurs and Wall Street traders seem to follow suit. But if you think you need to do the same thing to get ahead, think again. A growing body of research is finding that, on the contrary, those who get a good night's sleep are usually more productive at work. That's because sleep doesn't just rest the brain, say medical specialists. It allows the brain to perform vital maintenance and restoration tasks. Brains that get too little sleep simply cannot perform as well as those that are rested. "There's no doubt that sleep deprivation affects job performance," says the Detroit Medical Center's Safwan Badr. "The evidence is compelling that when you do not get enough sleep ... you are not as productive." Investors should also take heed: Numerous studies have found that those running on too little sleep tend to make poorer investment decisions and take needless risks as well. Charles Czeisler, a sleep specialist at Brigham you'll see similar effects if you simply sleep too little each night over time. For the first time, new research has attempted to put some numbers on the link between more Zzzs and more Benjamins. Matthew Gibson, graduate researcher in the economics department of the University of California, San Diego, compared wage data with sleep times recorded in the U.S. Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey. His conclusion: For those who are sleeping too little, "a onehour increase in longrun average sleep increases wages by 16%, equivalent to more than a year of schooling." Adults need eight hours of sleep on average, experts say. There is some variation between individuals. But when we are tired, we find it much harder to think innovatively and to make creative leaps, say researchers. We find it harder to adapt our thinking to new information or to learn new lessons. Consider: At England's Loughborough University in 1999, researchers Yvonne Harrison tested the effects of sleep deprivation on a small group of healthy young participants. They were given complex business-situation tasks in the form of a game, as well as some critical reading tasks. Those who went short on sleep were able to keep up with the reading, they found. But when it came to the complex game, "their play collapsed," they Reported.[A] agrees that sleep deprivation brings bad effects to investment.[B] holds that adults need an average of 8 hours' sleep.[C] believes that lack of sleep diminishes your performance.[D] thinks it is difficult for people lacking sleep to take up creative work.[E] points out the relation between sleep time and American dollars.[F] is well known for very little sleep.[G] maintains that sleep can rest the brain, and let the brain do other important tasks.

The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was supposed to transform American health insurance. Critics have long feared that it would do much more. Republicans have cast Obamacare as a job-killing, economy-crushing villain. On February 4th they appeared to get more ammunition from the Congressional Budget Office(CBO). The CBO, as part of its projection of economic growth over the next decade, estimates that Obamacare will lower full-time employment by 2. 3m in 2021, compared with what might have been without reform, and by 2. 5m in 2025. The main reason is not that firms are already slashing jobs to avoid the burden the law imposes, as Republicans have complained, but that Americans will choose to work less. The insight that Obamacare would lower the supply of labour is not new, but the magnitude of the CBO"s estimate is—the 2. 3m drop in 2021 is nearly three times larger than the CBO"s earlier projection. Many factors account for the decline. Chief among them is the effect of subsidies for health insurance. To help Americans buy coverage on new health "exchanges" , Obamacare offers tax credits to those earning between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty line(about $ 11,500 to $ 46,000 for a single adult). Those tax credits are offered on a sliding scale, by income, so workers in effect pay a higher tax rate as their wages rise. This may dissuade them from trying to earn more. The White House, mining the report for good news, argued that Obamacare liberates American workers. "At the beginning of this year, we noted that as part of this new day in health care, Americans would no longer be trapped in a job just to provide coverage for their families, and would have the opportunity to pursue their dreams," the White House press secretary said in a statement. "This CBO report bears that out. " The supply-side effects are not all bad. Some Americans, no longer tied to their employer-provided insurance, may feel freer to take better jobs or start their own businesses. But this effect is unlikely to offset the ranks of people who choose to work less, or not at all. And although leisure is often agreeable, does America really want to encourage its citizens to put their feet up?