According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Expanding the three-year option may be difficult, but it may be less difficult than asking Congress for additional financial help, asking legislators for more state support, or asking students even higher tuition payments.

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The woman's company failed to make payments in time.

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At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help from unemployment insurance.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to o

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to work will take time, time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

It is important to pay your electricity bill on time, as late payments may affect your credit.

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Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Because electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The fact that this is not an uncommon occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and steal from someone else's accounts.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with - work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ