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  3. After moving from New York to Los Angeles in 2010 to take a job with a financial services firm, Joan, now 59, believed she need

After moving from New York to Los Angeles in 2010 to take a job with a financial services firm, Joan, now 59, believed she need

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问题     After moving from New York to Los Angeles in 2010 to take a job with a
financial services firm, Joan, now 59, believed she needed to freshen her look. Since 1.______
she got a face-lift and tummy tuck from a board-certified doctor in Beverly Hills.
    What she did not recognize was that his certification was in 2. ______
otolaryngology — ear, nose and throat — not plastic surgery. The outcome
was more than ideal: thick scars on her temples and a wavy abdomen. 3.______
    "I had to use all my savings to get a really plastic surgeon to fix what he did to 4.______
me," said Joan, who asked that her last name was withheld to protect her privacy. "I 5.______
have a M.B.A. I’m not stupid. But when the doctor has a nice clinic and all those 6.______
diplomas and certifications on the wall, you think he knows what he’s doing."
    With declining insurance reimbursements, more doctors, regarding 7.______
of specialty, is expanding their practices to include lucrative cosmetic 8.______
procedures paid for out of pocket by patients. It’s now common to find
gynecologists offering breast augmentation, ophthalmologists doing
liposuction, even family practice physicians giving Botox injections.
    The result, according to certified plastic surgeons, is an increasing deal 9.______
of dissatisfied, even disfigured, patients.
    Members of the society claim there has been a surge in patients requesting
revisionary surgery — operations to undo damage caused by botched procedures.
    But many of this new alternate practitioners say that traditional plastic 10.______
surgeons are simply trying to protect their lucrative trade.  
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答案this——these
解析 本题为代词误用。practitioners是可数名词的复数形式，需用表示复数的形容词作前置定语，故用these更合适。
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