In the next few weeks consumer spending will increase by 7% in America, ______ with last year, according to a consumer survey by Deloitte, a consultancy.

In Hawaii, endemic birds, such as the omao and the apapane, dwell in the volcanic highlands and tropical rain forests.

Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install ______ solar heating device in our home.

4, My students found the book ______; it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.

Indigenous Australians believe that reconciliation is necessary but the government should, most importantly, make a formal apology for what they did in the past.

The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as unwieldy as some of the older editions.

grand slam

The universe is organized in ______ with, in many cases, pretty wide gaps between them.

Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ______ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.

Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ______ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.

Those people who are ______ are most welcome to the politicians.

She had a strong ______ to give a talk about her experiences, because she didn't like the limelight.

Although architecture has artistic qualities, it must also satisfy a number of important practical ______.

Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ______.

桂冠诗人

廉政文化建设

Although cosmetic surgery( and non-surgically cosmetic 1 ______ procedures, such as Botox injections)sometimes procedure negative outcomes—media often highlights surgery' disasters'— 2 ______ in the most part, the health risk for cosmetic procedures 3 ______ is low and patient satisfaction is high. Often, people who have been hobbled By poor body image all of their life, walk away from 4 ______ cosmetic surgery in confidence and the motivation to lead 5 ______ healthier lives. In addition, reconstructive surgery for burning 6 ______ and accident victims or to those disfigured from disease restore 7 ______ self-esteem and well-being in the way that other therapy cannot. 8 ______ In my professional opinion, it is a time for members of the 9 ______ medical community to examine the benefits and results of cosmetic surgery with prejudice and jealousy. 10 ______

After studying in a medical school for five years, Mary ______ her job as a physical therapist in the countryside.

减少社会不平等现象

Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily. Primary care should be the backbone of any health care system. Countries with appropriate primary care resources score highly when it comes to health outcomes and cost. The US takes the opposite approach by emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician. A recent study analyzed the providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries.The startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctors—two primary care physicians and five specialists—in given one year. Contrary to a popular belief, the more physicians taking care of you doesn't guarantee better care. Actually, increasing fragmentation of care results in a corresponding rise in cost and medical errors. How did we let primary care slip so far? The key is how doctors are paid. Most physicians are paid whenever they perform a medical service. The more a physician does, regardless of quality or outcome, the better he's reimbursed. Moreover, the amount a physician receive leans heavily toward medical or surgical procedures. A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patient's disease.Combine this fact with annual government threats to indiscriminately cut reimbursements, physicians are faced with no choice but to increase quantity to boost income. Primary care physicians who refuse to compromise quality are either driven out of business or to each-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care. Medical students aren't blind to this scenario. They see how heavily the reimbursement deck is stacked against primary care. How do we fix this problem? It starts with reforming the physician reimbursement system. Remove the pressure for primary care physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and reward them for optimally managing their diseases and practicing evidence based medicine. Make primary care more attractive to medical students by forgiving student loans for those who choose primary care as a career and reconciling the marked difference between specialist and primary care physician salaries.