时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:03.90]1997 Passage1
[00:11.47]It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken.
[00:16.11]After six months of arguing
[00:18.13]and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates,
[00:22.47]Australia's Northern Territory
[00:24.39]became the first legal authority in the world
[00:27.20]to allow doctors to take the lives
[00:29.44]of incurably 1 ill patients who wish to die.
[00:33.16]The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10.
[00:37.60]Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet
[00:40.52]and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess,
[00:44.87]executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada.
[00:49.61]He sent it on via the group's on-line service,
[00:52.84]Death NET. Says Hofsess:
[00:55.65]"We posted bulletins all day long,
[00:58.07]because of course this isn't just something
[01:00.58]that happened in Australia. It's world history."
[01:05.70]The full import may take a while to sink in.
[01:09.39]The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians
[01:14.52]and citizens alike trying to deal with
[01:17.05]its moral and practical implications.
[01:20.17]Some have breathed sighs of relief, others,
[01:23.19]including churches, right-to-life groups
[01:26.22]and the Australian Medical Association,
[01:28.94]bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.
[01:32.74]But the tide is unlikely to turn back.
[01:35.37]In Australia--where an aging population,
[01:38.49]life-extending technology and changing community attitudes
[01:42.30]have all played their part
[01:44.21]--other states are going to consider
[01:45.92]making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.
[01:49.95]In the US and Canada,
[01:51.87]where the right-to-die movement is gathering 2 strength,
[01:54.89]observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
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[01:58.66]Under the new Northern Territory law,
[02:01.13]an adult patient can request death
[02:04.00]--probably by a deadly injection or pill
[02:06.62]--to put an end to suffering.
[02:08.84]The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors.
[02:13.48]After a "cooling off" period of seven days,
[02:16.41]the patient can sign a certificate of request.
[02:19.64]After 48 hours the wish for death can be met.
[02:23.66]For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering
[02:28.10]from lung cancer,
[02:29.62]the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means
[02:33.45]he can get on with living
[02:35.26]without the haunting fear of his suffering:
[02:38.38]a terrifying death from his breathing condition.
[02:42.13]"I'm not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view,
[02:45.65]but what I was afraid of was how I'd go,
[02:48.57]because I've watched people die in the hospital
[02:51.29]fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.


1 incurably
ad.治不好地
  • But young people are incurably optimistic and women have a special knack of forgetting their troubles. 可是青年人,永远朝着愉快的事情想,女人们尤其容易忘记那些不痛快。
  • For herself she wanted nothing. For father and myself she was incurably ambitious. 她为她自己并无所求,可为父亲和我,却有着无法遏制的野心。
2 gathering
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
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activator atom
Aldanispirifer
aldehyde-lyases
Altinyaka
aprm downscale alarm
bacteria microscopic examining instruments set
band groove
be in a take the pet
bisexual hybrid
bourden
brush contact encoder
cartoonings
celling voltage
charging dynamo
cilioposterocapsular fibers
comest
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debouncing
declaration of deadweight tonnage of cargo
deflection defousing
durrance
dusicyon gymnocercus
electromagnetic coupling effect
endocarpic
engaging arm
eprom reliability
esteban
eunotogramma laevis
facilement
Fire Detection Alarm Systems
fixed exchange rates
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gaseous diffusion method
grid zone identification note
guest night
hard error rate
hot-pressed aluminium nitride
hydraulic check cylinder
internal strain
Jolfā
kiono-
kirkburtons
kohner
laev-
lay down his arms
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libercarelessian
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man-engine
management of design
Manet
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micromanometry
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