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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 fortable. 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 oute of human affairs.(43)________________________________________. These general concerns of those who oppose assisted suicide are valid in certain contexts of the assistedsuicide 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 shouldn39。the action should effect in major ways the preconceptions of institutions and persons who define the poor。s mythological tradition, one can discern some of the underlying beliefs that shaped those stories Text 4 Much has been written about poverty but none of the accounts seem to get at the root of the problem. It must be noted that the debilitating effects of poverty are not only the result of lack of money but are also the result of poor are subject to their social situation instead of being able to affect it through action,that is,through behavior that flows from an individual39。s fables provide a valuable glimpse into early Greek thought and beliefs [B] the most efficient and reliable way to study the values system of an ancient culture is through study of its mythology [C] without a thorough examination of a society39。s style, so as to examine how one goes about studying the meaning behind it 34. The author names the Roman, Aztec and European cultures in order to ______. [A] identify other cultures in which fables were the primary method by which to pass on traditions and values [B] explicitly name the various types of characters in those culture39。s fables in order to study the elements that make up Greek mythology [C] learn from the lesson presented in one of Aesop39。s school textbooks that reinforce the lesson [C] science documentaries that explain how nature works [D] movies that depict animals as having human characteristics 33. The main purpose of paragraph 3 is to ______. [A] examine how one of Aesop39。s fables did. The stories of Roman gods, Aztec ghosts and European elves all served to train ancient generations those lessons considered most important to their munity, and today they offer a powerful looking glass by which to evaluate and consider the contextual environment in which those culture existed. 31. The author appears to view fables as ______. [A] the most interesting and valuable form of mythology [B] entertaining yet serious subjects of study [C] a remnant tool of past civilizations, but not often used in the modern age [D] the primary method by which ancient values and ideas were transmitted between generations 32. The way that fables were used in the past is most similar to today39。s lesson, that we often play down that which we can39。s Fables, told and retold during the era of the Greek Empire. Aesop, a slave who won the favor of the court through his imaginative and descriptive tales, almost exclusively used animals to fill the roles in his short stories. Humans, when at all present, almost always played the part of bumbling fools struggling to learn the lesson being presented. This choice of characterization allows us to see that the Greeks placed wisdom on a level slightly beyond humans, implying that deep wisdom and understanding is a universal quality sought by, rather than steanning from, human beings. Aesop39。 standard assumption is right. [C] to vaccinate 10% to 25% of wolves living in the connected meadows is enough. [D] it takes 20 years to reduce risk of extinction if all the wolves are targeted. 25. The main purpose of the text is to___________. [A] show the dangers Ethiopian wolves are facing with. [B] inform people of the prospects Ethiopian wolves. [C] teach how to divide Ethiopian wolves into groups. [D] tell how to protect Ethiopian wolves from rabies.Text 2 It is no longer just dirty bluecollar jobs in manufacturing that are being sucked offshore but also whitecollar service jobs, which used to be considered safe from foreign petition. Teles charges have tumbled, allowing workers in farflung locations to be connected cheaply to customers in the developed world. This has made it possible to offshore services that were once nontradable. Morgan Stanley39。 standard assumption that every individual counts, vaccination programmes are intended to prevent epidemics by ensuring that each infected animal, on average, passes the disease on to less than one healthy animal. This implies that around twothirds of all the wolves would need to be vaccinated. A programme that sought to save a species rather than individuals would allow each infected wolf to pass the disease on to more than one healthy animal and hence require fewer vaccinations. Dr Haydon and his colleagues have calculated, using data from a rabies outbreak in 2003, that vaccinating between 10% and 25% would suffice, provided veterinarians gave jabs to those wolves living in the narrow valleys that connect the subpopulations. If t