Politicians in Europe continue to discuss whether Greece will remain in the Eurozone, the group of countries that use the Euro as their money. These discussions likely seem far away for Greeks who are poor. They have been dealing with reduced levels of public services for more than five years.

    If Greece is to remain in the Eurozone and if lenders agree to provide additional loans, it is likely that there will be even more cuts in government spending. This will lead to even fewer public services. Greeks know this, and they are answering the crisis by helping one another as much as they can.

    Greeks who are homeless, jobless, old or poor seek medical care from groups like Doctors of the World, in the capital Athens. Many immigrants have also come to the clinic for free care.

    Volunteer doctors and dentists treat everyone. They do not ask who they are or why they are there. The medical workers are struggling to deal with the number of people who need help. Dr. Bettina Krumbholz says the country's health care system began to deteriorate (恶化)when the debt crisis began in 2008.

    "We used to have a very good system, and it really used to work quite efficient(ly). But after they had to fire so many doctors, the system got very poor. And there's a lack of nurses, there's a lack of doctors. So the people, they're waiting for 10, 12, even more hours in the line."

    Dr. Krumbholz says the limits put in place two weeks ago on how much money Greeks can withdraw(取回) from the bank have made the situation worse.

    "They don't have money to get the medicine. So we have even many Greek patients that come here only to get their medication. We cannot leave people dying on the streets, out of hunger, out of lack of medicine, out of lack of doctors."

    Even if Europe agrees to another deal to rescue Greece, many Greeks will continue to suffer, especially those who are already suffering the most.

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1.What do the poor Greek people care about?

A Whether Greece will remain in the Eurozone.

B Public services.

C Whether they will continue using Euro as their money.

D Additional loans.

解析：选B。B。细节理解题。由第一段可知，政治家们讨论的与普通民众关心的相差甚远。人们正遭受着因为公共服务水准降低所带来的痛苦。

2.The underlined word ‘cut’ in paragraph 2 probably means____________.

A 伤口

B 剪裁

C 削减

D 切口

解析：选C。C。词义猜测题。这里指政府继续”削减”公共服务开支。

3.What do the people come to the volunteer doctors and dentists for?

A Free medical care.

B Medical workers.

C Health care system.

D Debts.

解析：选A。A。细节理解题。由第四段可知，越来越多的市民到这来寻求免费医疗。

4.What do people think of their past health care system?

A Not efficient.

B Very bad.

C Not enough.

D Very good.

解析：选D。D。细节理解题。由第五段可知，人们都认为过去希腊的公共服务体系是很好的，但2008年以来，情况变得越来越糟糕。

5.We can infer from the last paragraph that____________.

A Europe will agree to lend money to Greece

B There will be another limit to the money withdrawn from the bank

C The suffering of the poor may last long

D Some people will die in the streets

解析：选C。C。推理判断题。这里说，即使欧洲国家提供援助，希腊普通民众也不可能指望马上走出困境, 故选C。