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Test 4
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each
word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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One Medical
On Thursday, Amazon announced its first major acquisition (收购) under Mr. Jassy’s occupation as C.E.O.,
spending $3.9 billion for One Medical, a chain of primary care clinics around the country. The deal is a sign of
Amazon’s health care ambitions. As the company has 1 from one business to another — including books,
CDs, electronics, dog food and clothes — it has had to look in less obvious spots to find opportunities that can
provide meaningful 2 .
Health care has been 3 to Amazon executives who believe it is an extremely large market, filled with
inefficiencies and generally lacking the kind of 4 approach that Amazon tries to take with its businesses.
“We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need 5 ,” Neil Lindsay, the senior vice
president of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement announcing the deal. He also listed some of the 6
of modern health care: booking appointments, sitting in waiting rooms, even finding a parking spot.
Amazon wants to be the “front door” through which customers 7 health care. That One Medical sees
about five times as many virtual visits as 8 appointments most likely made it attractive to Amazon. The
company also has something Amazon values 9 : data. One Medical built its own electronic medical records
system, and it has 15 years’ worth of medical and health-system data. While individual patient records are
generally protected under federal health privacy laws, the big data skill that has 10 Amazon’s success
can be powerful in health care — for predicting costs, targeting interventions and developing products and
treatments.
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or
phrases marked A. B.C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that