To become a doctor in the United States, students usually attend four years of m

To become a doctor in the United States,students usually attend four years of medical school after they completecollege. Then these young doctors work in hospitals for several years tocomplete a training program called a residency(住院医生实习期).

These medical residents provide hospitalswith needed services in return for not much pay. They work under thesupervision(管理) ofmedical professors and more experienced doctors. Medical residents treatpatients . they carry out tests. They perform operations. They completerecords. In hospitals with few nurses, residents also do work formerly done bynurses. Some medical residents work one-hundred or more hours in a single week.They often work for more than thirty-six hours at a time before they canrest.

Critics (批评家) of this system say medical residents work toolong and do not get enough res. They say these young doctors may be too tiredto perform their medical duties effectively. Now, the government will limit thenumber of hours of work that residents can work. Most doctors in training willbe limited to eighty-four hours of work each week. They will have work periodsof no more than twenty-four hours at one time. They will have ten hours of restbetween work periods.

Medical residents will have one day eachweek when they do not have to work. Any work they accept outside theirhospitals will be limited．Experienced doctors and medical professors will closely supervisethe residents to make sure they are not too tired to work.

Many medical residents welcomed the worklimits. Others, however, said the new policy may interfere with patient careand their own medical education.

1.If a first –year college student inAmerica wants to be a doctor, he has to wait for ___.

2.Medical residents are not responsible for____.

3.The underlined sentence in the 2^ndparagraph means that they have to ____.

4.Why does the government limit the numberof hours that residents work?

5.The underlined word “Others” in the lastparagraph refers to ___.

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.D

5.D

【解析】略