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A.threatens B.for C.healthier A.a government with finite resources should simply stop paying【T7】_______medical care B.ou
A.threatens B.for C.healthier A.a government with finite resources should simply stop paying【T7】_______medical care B.ou
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2015-06-11
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A.threatens B.for C.healthier
A.a government with finite resources should simply stop paying【T7】_______medical
care
B.our failure to confront that reality now【T8】_______this greatness of ours
C.so that younger,【T9】_______ people can realize their potential
It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional.Small wonder.Americans’ life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century.Failing hips can be replaced, cataracts removed in a 30-minutes surgical procedure.Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago.But not even a great health-care system can cure death, and【T10】______
Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions.We all understand that at some level, yet as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved.Shielded by third-party payers from the cost of our care, we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it’s useless.The most obvious example is late-stage cancer care.Physicians—frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient—too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.
In 1950, the U.S.spent $12.7 billion on health care.In 2002, the cost will be $1,540 billion.Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable.Yet few seem willing to try toreverse it.Some scholars conclude that【T11】______that sustains life beyond a certainage—say 83 or so.Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way",【T12】______.
【T10】
选项
答案
B
解析
根据语境可知,空格所在句的意思应为:面对死亡而无能为力是对我们这个伟大时代的极大嘲讽。所以,B项符合题意。
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