A. the new law, the bill, the drug bill, the prescription-drug legislation, the legislation

　　B.prescription-drug coverage, the new law, the drug bill, the prescription-drug legislation, the legislation

　　C. the drug bill, the bill, Medicare with prescription-drug coverage added, the prescription-drug legislation, the legislation

　　D. the new law, the bill, the drug bill, Medicare with additions including prescription-drug coverage, the prescription-drug legislation

　　96. Democratic Congressmen suggested that the government should _____.

　　A. be enthusiastic in providing a drug benefit to the people

　　B. oppose the new legislation with thundering protests

　　C. give more money, so to speak, to medicine markers and retailers

　　D. provide financial assistance to people wanting to buy life insurance

　　97. Paragraph 3 reflects basically the views and comments of _____.

　　A. Congressional Democrats

　　B. many other Liberals in the Congress

　　C. Sen. Edward Kennedy

　　D. the author of the passage

　　98. According to the text, some health care experts believed that _____.

　　A. the new law had a 10-year budget of about $400 billion but little was expected for the prescription-drug coverage

　　B.the new law will have to wait another 10 years and cost about $400 billion before it is able to take effect

　　C. the framework of the new legislation would be fit for a project that was to cost $400 billion over the next 10 years

　　D. the projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework was planned to be budget for the current Iraq war

　　99. Referring to the elderly as summarized in the passage, we can assume that they are _____.

　　A. great in number and most will vote

　　B. great in number but few tend to vote

　　C. few in number and few tend to vote

　　D. few in number but most will vote

　　100. From the end of the passage we would expect the author to start his next paragraph most probably on _____.

　　A. how the senior citizens of the United States responded to the new legislation

　　B.the opinions of the few who anticipated what the reaction of the elderly was to be

　　C. what the legislators would consider doing to avoid further legislative digressions

　　D. major competing ideologies that differ on the coming congressional budget