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More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke or are overweig
More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke or are overweig
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2023-11-10
8
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问题
More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke or are overweight shoulder a greater share of their health care costs. It is a shift toward 【C1】______ employees with unhealthy lifestyles【C2】______ rewarding good habits. Such policies that【C3】______ financial penalties on employees have doubled in the last two years to 19 percent of 248 major American employers recently【C4】______.
【C5】______, another survey【C6】______ on Wednesday showed that about a third of employers with 500 or more workers were trying to【C7】______ them into wellness programs by offering【C8】______ incentives, like discounts on their insurance.【C9】______, companies including Home Depot, PepsiCo, Safeway, Lowe’s and General Mills have defended decisions to seek higher premiums from some workers, like Wal-Mart’s recent addition of a $2 ,000-a-year surcharge for some smokers. Many point to the higher health care costs 【C10】______ with smoking or obesity. Some even describe the charges and 【C11】______ as a " more stick, less carrot"【C12】______ to get workers to take more【C13】______ for their well-being. Whatever the characterizations are, it means that smokers and others pay more than co-workers who【C14】______a company’s health goals.
But some benefits specialists and health experts say programs billed as 【C15】______ for wellness, by offering discounted health insurance, can become penal for people who suffer from health problems that are not completely under their control. Nicotine【C16】______, for example, may【C17】______smokers from quitting, and severe obesity may not be easily【C18】______. Fairly speaking, " employers cannot【C19】______ against smokers by asking them to pay more for their insurance【C20】______the surcharge is part of a broader effort to help them quit," said Karen L. Handorf, a lawyer who specializes in employee benefits for Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington. [br] 【C2】
选项
A、worse than
B、rather than
C、better than
D、other than
答案
B
解析
短语辨析题。根据上一题句意以及上下文可知,此处的短语应该形成语义上的对比,即“不是……而是……”之意。[B]rather than“而不是”,符合上下文语境,故为答案。本句并无比较之意,无需使用比较级,故排除[A]worsethan和[C]better than。[D]other than“除了,不同于”,不符合句意,故排除。
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