National Health Service The National Health Service of the country was set up in 1948 shortly after the end of the Second World War. Its aim is to provide free medical treatment for all patients who wish to take advantage of the service. However, it is still possible to obtain private medical treatment and in this case the doctor charges a fee. To say that the National Health Service is free is not entirely true. Every employed or self-employed person over sixteen years of age must put a stamp on an insurance card every week. This card is ISsued by a govemment department called the Department of Health and Social Security. The stamp costs money and the amount is constantly changing. Part of the cost of this stamp, in fact the greater part, is borne by the employer and it finances the National Health Service together with many 1. The National Health Service A. aims to provide free and privațe medical treatment other social security benefits. ...
1. The National Health Service ...
A. aims to provide free and private medical treatment without paying any money
B. is said to be completely free, however, it is not
C. pays the money of the stamps that patients should fit on the card
D. and Department of Health and Social Security are the same foundations
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speed, excitement, danger. you can find all these in the different extreme sports that have become popular last 10 years. take bungee jumping. you jump off a bridge and you fall and fall, and then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you back. in skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to “surf” the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air! and extreme sports on land can be just as dangerous.
winter sports have always an element of danger. for example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is more dangerous even than skiing. probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snowrafting. you sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed – and you can't control the boat!
of course, water sports have always been fun. ice diving, for those people who are absolutely crasy. you put on diving equipment and dive under a frosen lake. and, if that's not enough, you try to walk upside down on the ice! i feel cold just thinking about it.
a lot of people are not fit nowadays. it's a big problem today. if you want to feel fit you'd better go in for one kind of sport or another. i think that everyone must do all he can to be healthy. good health is better than the best medicine. all kinds of physical exercises are very useful to make our bodies strong and to keep ourselves fit and healthy. to tell the truth i don't do sports regularly and it is not an essential part of my daily life. in the morning i do some exercises just to awake. in summer i go swimming as there is a beautiful lake with pure water where my granny lives. in winter i swim in the swimming pool. i like to ride the bike. i shouldn't call myself a sports fan. of course , i like to watch sports competitions on tv, like hockey or football. but most of all i admire extreme kinds of sport. i think they are really cool.