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Last fall I got a new hip. It's much better than the 55-year-old hip I used to have __1___ I had my surgery; I was in constant pain and could hardly walk. I couldn’t travel for my job __2__ a journalist anymore. I couldn’t __3__ do the simple things: go shopping, weed the garden, or take a walk in the park. __4__my new hip, I’d be living __5__ the rest of my life in a wheelchair. I waited about seven months for my new __6__. Many people aren’t so lucky. It’s not __7__ to wait a year to see a specialist, and __8__ year for surgery. Wait times are the worst in some of Canada’s biggest cities—Ottawa and Hamilton. Some specialists have even __9__ taking referrals because they are too busy. What’s wrong, in the next ten or fifteen years, the __10__ for hip and knee replacements is expected to double. Today, the wait for hip and knee replacements in Canada is probably one of the longest in the developed countries. “We’re at the __11__,” says Dr. Bourne. “What a shame it is __12__ a First World country as wealthy as Canada has the patients __13__ from this.” The same is true for many other __14__ conditions, from heart attack to cancer. People wait too long and suffer. One woman I know spent two years __15__ blind as she waited for a simple 20-minute procedure to __16__ her sight. The problem wasn’t a __17__ of eye surgeons. In fact, we have plenty of first-tare eye and bone surgeons who are __18__ to operate on patients only a few hours a week. That’s because hospitals aren’t paid for __19__ patients the government didn’t budget for. Instead of __20__ extra surgery operations or paying nurses working overtime, theyshut their operating rooms. 1. A. A. after B. Until C. when D. as 2. A. A. as B. like C. for D. of 3. A. still B. yet C. either D. even 4. A. by B. with C. without D. through 5. A. for B. on C. in D. out 6. A. job B. surgery C. hip D. wheelchair 7. A. usual B. unusual C. common D. popular 8. A. another B. other C. the other D. one 9. A. prevented B. stopped C. delayed D. escaped 10. A. order B. wait C. hope D. demand 11. A. front B. middle C. bottom D. top 12. A. because B. if C. that D. why 13. A. suffer B. hear C. learn D. separate 14. A. physical B. medical C. personal D. environmental 15. A. becoming B. turning C. getting D. going 16. A. recover B. cover C. return D. find 17. A. kind B. sort C. lack D. lot 18. A. admitted B. ordered C. requested D. allowed 19. A. treating B. curing C. helping D. saving 20. A. finishing B. completing C. performing D. opening