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南京大学考博英语模拟题及其解析
Directions:
In the following text,some sentences have been removed.For Questions41-45,choose the most suitable one from the list A–G to fit into each of the numbered blank.There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10points)
Should doctor-assisted suicide ever be a legal option?It Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua:si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba,huo jia zi xun qq:qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi involves the extreme measure of taking the life of a terminally ill patient when the patient is in extreme pain and the chances for recovery appear to be hopeless.Those who argue against assisted suicide do so by considering the roles of the patient,the doctor,and nature in these situations.
Should the patient take an active role in assisted suicide?When a patient is terminally ill and in great pain,those who oppose assisted suicide say that it should not be up to that patient to decide what his or her fate will
be.(41)___________________________________________.
What role should the doctor have?Doctors,when taking the Hippocratic oath,swear to preserve life at all costs,and it is their
ethical and legal duty to follow both the spirit and the letter of this oath.It is their responsibilities to heal the sick,and in the cases when healing is not possible,then the doctor is obliged to make the dying person comfortable.Doctors are trained never to hasten death.(42)___________________________________________. Doctors are also,by virtue of their humanness,capable of making mistakes.Doctors could quite possibly say,for instance,that a cancer patient was terminal,and then the illness could later turn out not to be so serious.There is always an element of doubt concerning the future outcome of human
affairs.(43)________________________________________.
These general concerns of those who oppose assisted suicide are valid in certain contexts of the assisted-suicide question.For instance,patients cannot always be certain of their medical conditions.Pain clouds judgment,and so the patient should not be the sole arbiter of her or his own destiny.Patients do not usually choose the course of their medical treatment,so they shouldn't be held completely responsible for decisions related to it.Doctors are also fallible,and it is understandable that they would not want to make the final decision about when death should occur.
(44)__________________________________________.
I believe that blindly opposing assisted suicide does no one a service.If someone is dying of cancer and begging to be put out of
