【正文】 proved by technological advance [B] the number of female babies has been declining [C] our species has reached the highest stage of evolution [D] the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing 8. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? [A] Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution [B] Ways of Continuing Man39。 pain. [B] it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives. [C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physicianassisted suicide. [D] patients have no constitutional right to mit suicide. 57. Which of the following statements is true according to the text? [A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients39。re a physician, you can risk your patient39。 pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 4 頁 共 56 頁 Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death. Gee Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. It39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 3 making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 3 頁 共 56 頁 you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。s God. came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he39。s industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing petition from overseas. How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self doubt has yielded to blind pride. American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick witted, according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard39。 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 1 頁 共 56 頁 20xx 年考研英語強化班閱讀理解教材 第一課時 概述 考研英語閱讀： 1. 重要性 2. 閱讀思路的轉(zhuǎn)變 3. 考研文章的體裁和來源 4. 考研閱讀大綱要求 第二課時 Unit 7－ Passage 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may bee a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any petitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world39。s machinetool industry was on theropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new puter age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their ines would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America39。 convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful acmodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on.. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes tothe head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. Who is that? the new arrival asked St. Peter. Oh, that39。s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn39。s decisions on physicianassisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physicianassisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of double effect, a centuriesold moral principle holding that an action having two effects — a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 4 foreseen — is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients39。t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you39。s ruling on physicianassisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a twovolume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying as the twin problems of endoflife care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospitals, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospitalbased care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these wellmeaning medical initiatives translate into better care. Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned