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On an average of six times a day,a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia intentionally administering a lethal drug to
On an average of six times a day,a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia intentionally administering a lethal drug to
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2013-01-25
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On an average of six times a day,a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia intentionally administering a lethal drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to be relieved of suffering. Twenty times a day,life prolonging treatment is withhold or withdrawn when there is no hope that it can effect an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted.
Euthanasia,often called "mercy killing,"is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses in Britain,West Germany,Holland and elsewhere readily admit to practicing it,most often in the"passive"form of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a sometimes fierce public debate,with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice:see themselves up-holding sacred principles of respect for life,while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive,the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents to a poll taken late last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings.
Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans,like Americas, are now living longer. The average European male now lives to the age of 72,women to almost 80. As Derek Humphrey,a leading British advocate of’rational euthanasia"says,"lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death."
And so the euthanasiaists have begun to press their case with greater force. They argue that every human being should have the right to "die with dignity,"by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization. Most advocates of voluntary euthanasia has argued that the right to die should be accorded only to the terminally and incurably ill,but the movement also includes a small minority who believe in euthanasia for anyone who rationally decides to take his own life.
That right is unlikely to get legal recognition any time in the near future. Even in the Netherlands,the proposals now before Parliament would restrict euthanasia to a small number of cases and would surround even those with elaborate safeguards.
In Paragraph 2,"boiled over"means_____.
选项
A、burst (into)
B、make the water hot enough to boil
C、cause great anger
D、right one another
答案
A
解析
题目问:“boiled over”是什么意思?第二段“The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiledover into a sometimes fierce public debate,with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness.”通过此句话可知,关于安乐死问题的长期酝酿,最近引发了一场激烈的公开辩论,双方都声称是最终正义的代表。在这个句子中,boiled over的意思是:到了爆发点,沸腾溢出。据此判断,应选择A。
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