【正文】 ctor of Montefiore Medical Center, contends thatthe principle will shield doctors who until now have very, very stronglyinsisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to controltheir pain if that might hasten death. Gee Annas, chair of the health law department at BostonUniversity, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for alegitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if thepatient uses the drug to hasten death. It39。 rainwater got under the caves and dripped down the posts and beams.” One day a high wind came along, and the whole barn began to tremble. “You could hear this cracking,first, like old sailing –ship timbers, and then a sharp ____36______of cracks and a tremendous roaring sound. Suddenly it was a heap of scrap lumber.” “After the storm blew over, I went down and saw these beautiful, old oak timbers, solid as could be. I asked the fellow who owns the places what had happened. He said he figured the rainwater had _____37____in the pinholes, where wooden dowels held the joints together. Once those pins were rotted, there was nothing to link the giant beams together.” We both gazed down the hill. Now all that was left of the barn was its cellar and its border of lilac shrubs. My friend said that he had turned the incident over and over in his mind, and finally came to recognize some parallels between building a friendship: no matter how strong you are, how notable your attainments, you have enduring significance only in your relationship to others. “To make your life a ____38_______structure that will serve others and fulfill your own potential,” he said, “you have to remember that strength, however massive, can?t endure unless it has the interlocking support of others. Go it alone and you?ll ____39____tumble.” “Relationships have to be cared for,” he added, “l(fā)ike the roof of a barn. Letters unwritten, thanks unsaid, confidences violated, quarrels unsettledall this acts like rainwater ____40_____into the pegs, weakening the link between the beams.” My friend shook his head,“ It was a good barn. And it would have taken little to keep it good repair. Now it will probably never be rebuilt.” Later that afternoon, I got ready to leave. “You would like to borrow my phone to make a call, I don?t suppose?” he said. “Yes,” I said, “ I think I would. Very much.” III. ReadingComprehension SectionA Directions: ForeachblankinthefollowingpassagetherearefourwordsorphrasesmarkedA, B, C and D. Fill ineachblankwiththewordorphrasethatbestfitsthecontext. Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disease only after one has just struck them. _____41___that logic, 2021 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still _____42______in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in history, on live TV. Anyone who didn?t know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made _____43______worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our ____44_____to work together before everything goes to hell. Granted, some amount of delusion(錯覺 ) is probably part of the human condition. In , Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work ______45_____in the same spotuntil they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a _____46____of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at ______47____themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we ____48____did about the dangers we face. But it turns out that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is ____49____the storm, the quake or the surge itself. More often it is ourselves. So what has happened in the year that ____50_____the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to __51______they were before Katrina, more or less. That?s not ___52______, we can now say with confidence. But it may be all ______53_____can be expected from one year of hustle.（忙碌） Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to evacuate the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people will need a ____54____out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The ____55____with no neighboring munities are on going and difficult. 41. A. To B. By C. On 42. A. fresh 43. A. little B. less C. more D. much 44. A. reluctance B. rejection C. denial D. decli