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Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936.@On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland
Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936.@On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland
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2010-05-05
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Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936.@On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia: (1)_____ administering a lethal drug to a (2)_____ ill patient who has asked to be relieved (3)_____ suffering. Twenty times a day, life prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn (4)_____ there is no hope that it can (5)_____ an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books, punishable (6)_____ 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who (7)_____ it out will not be prosecuted.
Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing", is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. (8)_____ more and more doctors and nurses in Britain, Germany, Holland and elsewhere readily (9)_____ to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form of withholding or withdrawing(10)_____. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately (11)_____ into a sometimes fierce public debate, (12)_____ both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those (13)_____ to the practice see themselves (14)_____ sacred principles of respect for life, (15)_____ those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years (16)_____ the defensive, the advocates now seem to be (17)_____ ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British (18)_____ favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of (19)_____ to a poll taken late last year in France said they would like the law changed to (20)_____ mercy killings. Obviously, pressure groups favoring euthanasia and "assisted suicide" have grown steadily in Europe over the years.
Notes:
euthanasia 安乐死
lethal 致命的
statute book 法典
prosecute 起诉
simmering 处于沸腾的状态
mantle 重任,责任
选项
A、works
B、saves
C、carries
D、rescues
答案
C
解析
词义型惯用搭配。carry out进行,实行。填入carries既符合上下文的逻辑意思,又符合惯用搭配的需要。work out制订,设计,安排,例如:work out ideas(出主意),work out a new interpretation of the phenomenon(对这个现象做出新的解释);work out a plan(制订出新计划)。
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考研英语一
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