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  3. Modern liberal opinion is sensitive to problems of restriction of freedom and abuse of power. (1)_____, many hold that a man can

Modern liberal opinion is sensitive to problems of restriction of freedom and abuse of power. (1)_____, many hold that a man can

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问题     Modern liberal opinion is sensitive to problems of restriction of freedom and abuse of power. (1)_____, many hold that a man can be injured only by violating his will, but this view is much too (2)_____. It fails to (3)_____ the great dangers we shall face in the (4)_____ of biomedical technology that stems from an excess of freedom, from the unrestrained (5)_____ of will. In my view, our greatest problems will be voluntary self-degradation, or willing dehumanization, as is the unintended yet often inescapable consequence of sternly and successfully pursuing our humanization (6)_____.
    Certain (7)_____ and perfected medical technologies have already had some dehumanizing consequences. Improved methods of resuscitation have made (8)_____ heroic efforts to "save" the severely ill and injured. Yet these efforts are sometimes only partly successful: They may succeed in (9)_____ individuals, but these individuals may have sever brain damage and be capable of only a less-than-human, vegetating (10)_____. Such patients have been (11)_____ a death with dignity. Families are forced to bear the burden of a (12)_____ "death watch".
    (13)_____ the ordinary methods of treating disease and prolonging life have changed the (14)_____ in which men die. Fewer and fewer people die in the familiar surroundings of home or in the (15)_____ of family and friends. This loneliness, (16)_____, is not confined to the dying patient in the hospital bed. As a group, the elderly are the most alienated members of our society: Not yet (17)_____ the world of the dead, not deemed fit for the world of the living, they are shunted (18)_____. We have learned how to increase their years, (19)_____ we have not learned how to help them enjoy their days. Yet we continue to bravely and feverishly push back the frontiers (20)_____ death.

选项 A、supporting
B、rescuing
C、replacing
D、retrieving
答案B
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