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More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke or are overweight shoulder a greater share of their health care cos

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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.
【C1】
选项 A、penalizing
B、blaming
C、charging
D、fining
答案A
解析 动词辨析题。句意为：这一变化不是为了奖励那些有着良好生活习惯的员工，而是旨在惩罚那些有着不健康的生活方式的员丁。根据下文中出现的penalties，penal可知，此处是对雇主所采取的惩罚措施的评价，且应与句中的rewarding(奖励)意思相反。[A]penalizing指的是“惩罚，处罚”，可以指物质上或精神上的惩罚，故为答案。[B]blaming“谴责，指责”，与下文的rewarding(奖励)不对应，故排除；[C]charging“索价，要价，收费”，文中侧重惩罚性，故排除；[D]fining“罚款”，多指违反法律法规所应该缴纳的款项，与句意不符，故排除。
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