判断题Many American people are better off these days as they don’t have to pay their hospital bills.A对B错
判断题
Many American people are better off these days as they don’t have to pay their hospital bills.
A
对
B
错
参考解析
解析：
录音最后提到很少有美国人乐意找本国同胞的麻烦来让他们偿还信用卡债务或还不起的医药费，因此题干“如今很多美国人的生活都好多了因为他们不用交医疗费了”与录音内容不符。
【录音原文】
Thanks to Americans’ seemingly bottomless appetite for more debt, Mr. Ginsberg still predicts employment growth in the debt-collection industry at home—if the agencies can attract new workers. As it happens, few Americans seem to enjoy hassling their compatriots to pay credit-card debts or hospital bills they cannot afford.
录音最后提到很少有美国人乐意找本国同胞的麻烦来让他们偿还信用卡债务或还不起的医药费，因此题干“如今很多美国人的生活都好多了因为他们不用交医疗费了”与录音内容不符。
【录音原文】
Thanks to Americans’ seemingly bottomless appetite for more debt, Mr. Ginsberg still predicts employment growth in the debt-collection industry at home—if the agencies can attract new workers. As it happens, few Americans seem to enjoy hassling their compatriots to pay credit-card debts or hospital bills they cannot afford.
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