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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

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问题     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 Twenty times a day, life prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn (4)_____ there is no hope that it can (5)_____ an ultimate cure.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、abandoning
B、confirming
C、upholding
D、upgrading
答案C
解析 词义搭配。uphold(=support or approve)支持，赞成：I cannot uphold such conduct．(我不能赞成这样的行为)。本题中upholding是现在分词作定语。如选 upholding，可满足上下文的词义和结构要求。abandon vt．(=give up because of being useless)放弃，丢掉，废弃，如：1) an abandoned car(一辆废弃的汽车)2) He has abandoned his original beliefs．(他已抛弃了原来的信念)。3) He abandoned his wife and children and went abroad．(他抛弃妻子和孩子，出国了)。 confirm vt，(确认，证实)与上下文句意不符，不能入选。upgrade(＝raise to a higher grade)提高…的等级，与上下文句意不符，不能入选。
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