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The full import may take a while to understand. The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical meaning. Some have breathed sighs of relief, but others, including churches, right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste(匆忙,急忙) of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, life extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to for euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes(多米诺骨牌) to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death — probably by a deadly injection or pill — to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54 year old Darwin man suffering from lung cancer, the law means he can get on with living without the fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks,” he says.
小题1:According to the text ,which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.Australia now is the only country in the world to pass the law of euthanasia. |
B.All people in Australia don’t have the same positive attitude to euthanasia. |
C.Many patients will ask their doctors for euthanasia because they are afraid of death. |
D.According to the law, if a patient requests death, his or her wish will be met after 48 hours. |
A.the result of the game of dominoes. |
B.that people’s attitude to euthanasia will be changed. |
C.that the bill about euthanasia in Australia will come to an end. |
D.the similar bills will be passed in other countries. |
A.In Australia, the technology of extending life is advanced. |
B.In Australia, it is easy to deal with the moral and practical meaning. |
C.In Australia, old people take up great part in the population of the whole country. |
D.Australians gradually realize suffering from a terrible disease is worse than immediate death. |
A.when Lloyd Nickson dies, he will face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia. |
B.physicians and citizens in Australia share the same view on euthanasia. |
C.other countries are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. |
D.under the bill, patients requesting death are sure to be injected by deadly medicine. |
A.Negative | B.Critical | C.Positive | D.Doubtful |
答案
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:C
解析
小题1:推理题:从第一段的句子:The bill was passed by the vote of 15 to 10.可知澳大利亚人对安乐死的观点不一。选B
小题1:句意理解题:从第二段的句子:other states are going to consider making a similar law to for euthanasia.可知其他国家也希望出台相似的法律。选D
小题1:细节题:从第二段的句子:The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical meaning.可知澳大利亚人很容易处理道德和实用的含义,选B
小题1:细节题:从最后一段的句子:the law means he can get on with living without the fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition.可知Lloyd Nickson 死后,他可以冷静的面对安乐死。选A
小题1:作者态度题:文章介绍了安乐死的法律,从最后一段的内容,可知作者是持有积极的态度。选C
核心考点
试题【Australia---The vote for euthanasia(安乐死)was finally taken at 3:45 this morning. 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things. The pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine, the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society, offend(or hurt) many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its possessors. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when those who have it realize its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.
Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on themselves public objections, no one will defend or excuse them, and many will join to criticize their wrongdoings. These should change this bad habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, without worrying needlessly about themselves and others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. Otherwise, it can be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when one becomes mixed up in their quarrels.
小题1:The phrase“sour the pleasure of society” most nearly means__________.
A.have a good taste with social life | B.make others unhappy |
C.tend to scold others openly | D.enjoy the pleasure of life |
A.people can get rid of the habit of unhappiness |
B.such unhappy people are dangerous to social life |
C.we should pity all such unhappy people |
D.unhappy people can not understand happy persons |
A.prevent any communication with them |
B.show no respect and politeness to them |
C.persuade them to recognize the bad effects |
D.quarrel with them until they realize the mistakes |
A.describes two types of people | B.laughs at the unhappy people |
C.suggests ways to help them unhappy | D.tells people how to be happy in life |
“It’s surprising but true that most of the top students have been girls since primary school. Girls are class leaders, club presidents and the top ones in exams,” said Wang Feixuan, 15, who studies at a Chengdu school. By any measure, Wang herself is a high-achiever. She is a top student, a team leader in her school’s sports club and a winner in national English and IT competitions.
But why do so many girls outperform their male peers?
In Sun Yunxiao’s latest book Save Our Boys, he points out that the education system is “more suited to girls, who are good at memorizing and like to sit quietly and read.” Yet he also says that girls have to do so much more when they compete with males for honors, top universities and later good jobs. They can feel great pressure nearly every day.
This seems to be the same in most countries in the world. Young women in the United States are also reported to feel the same pressure to be perfect.
“Let’s look at what we ask of our teenage girls,” says Professor Stephen Hinshaw in an interview. He thinks that it’s no longer enough that a girl does well in school and is a caring friend. On the TV, on the Internet and everywhere, girls see images of impossible perfection.
Today’s young women must be good learners, good athletes, and fill their after-school lives with other activities. But they are also asked to have the styles and looks of popular stars. “Be pretty, sweet and nice. Be athletic, competitive and get straight. Be impossibly perfect.” Stephen Hinshaw sums up.
小题1:The passage suggests that .
A.our society asks far too much of teenage girls |
B.teenage girls shouldn’t be so perfect at school |
C.boys are always lazy ones rather than girls |
D.American girls have less pressure than Chinese girls |
A.boys are less smart than girls throughout school life |
B.boys usually don’t have so much pressure as girls do |
C.girls are all fond of the Chinese education system |
D.girls are better at school because boys don’t work hard |
A.hate | B.misunderstand | C.like | D.defeat |
A.Impossibly Perfect Is Possible. | B.Why Are Girls So Perfect? |
C.Perfect? Pressure Every Day! | D.Perfect: Boys or Girls? |
After decades of skimpy skirts and sleeveless tops on game days, some schools in the US are saying cheerleader uniforms will have to meet stricter dress codes when they are worn in class.
In Lake County, Florida, cheerleaders with uniforms too skimpy for the code are being asked to wear long shorts or trousers under their skirts and a T-shirt under the sleeveless tops, according to a district memo. Principals at two of Lake’s eight high schools – Leesburg and Lake Minneola – are not allowing the outfits in school at all.
Michelle Thomas, a cheerleader at Leesburg High School, was disappointed when she learned she couldn’t wear her outfit to school on game days.
“It shows that we’re a team just like all the other sports,” she said.
But the school administrators did not agree. “During the educational portion of the day, they have to meet the dress code just like every other student,” said school board chairwoman Debbie Stivender, who ordered the staff to bring the outfits into line with the dress code.
Bare midriffs are banned across the state by the Florida High School Athletic Association, but no state rules mention cheerleader miniskirts. Sheila Noone, a spokeswoman for cheerleading uniform company Varsity Brands, says the outfits haven’t become more revealing over the last 10 years. She says that the short skirts are designed to help the girls jump and kick.
“Cheerleading is athletic,” Noone said. “There’s a lot of jumping, so you won’t want a knee-length skirt that might hamper a tie touch.”
Most cheerleaders were sad to hear the news, but say they’ll follow the rules. Even male cheerleaders, whose pants and tops meet dress codes, chose not to wear their outfits to show unity.
“I understanding, because they are kind of short,” said Holly Bishop, 14, a Lake Minneola High School cheerleader, about her miniskirt. “It would have been really, really cool to wear them to school.”
小题1:According to the new dress codes for cheerleaders in some American schools, __________.
A.bare midriffs are banned |
B.cheerleading miniskirts are banned |
C.cheerleader uniforms have switched from skirts to trousers |
D.cheerleaders have to make their uniforms less revealing |
A.School administrators believe cheerleader uniforms do not match school dress codes. |
B.Most cheerleaders show understanding of the new dress codes. |
C.Sheila Noone believes that cheerleading miniskirts are not revealing. |
D.School administrators don’t take cheerleading seriously. |
A.they hate the dress codes that other sports have |
B.they consider their uniforms special and cool |
C.they want to wear revealing clothes |
D.they will have to buy new uniforms |
In Shanghai, there now live a group of people from abroad.They look no different from the locals and speak fluent Chinese or even Shanghai dialect, but when it comes to writing Chinese characters, they are almost illiterate(文盲).Jack is such an example.He never learned to read or write Chinese characters, which he finds mysterious and difficult.From time to time, he files to the US as he does not feel Shanghai is where he comes from.“But when I am in the States, I feel that’s not my home either,” he said.
At De Gaulle Airport in France, there is a Swiss man who has been living in the waiting – room for a long time because he lost h is passport during his travels.He was refused entry into several countries.But when he was eventually allowed to return to Swizerland, he refused to leave the airport.His reason was very simple—“I am sure who I am.I need no acknowledgement from others,” he said during an interview.For th is reason he was honored by the Western media as “the Hero of identity.”
As the Internet becomes more and more popular, the problem of identity becomes more serious.In a virtual world, people can have different addresses registered with different names.In the Internet chat room, even one’s gender(性别) is hard to determine.It seems that in the glohal village, people are saying hello every day to each other without knowing whom they are talking to.
What will be the next crisis(危机) of identity? With the development of cloning technology, it might be: who is the real “I”?
小题1:What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.The importance of identity. |
B.The crisis of identity. |
C.Differences between Eastern and Western cultures. |
D.Difficulty in living in foreign counties. |
A.he needed to board a plane at any time
B.he couldn’t afford to live in a hotel
C.he needed others acknowledgement
D.he couldn’t prove who he was
65.A “banana” in the passage is in fact an .
A.American traveling to Asia B.American keeping Eastern culture
C.American born in Asia D.America – born Asian
小题3:We can infer from the passage that the author believes .
A.there will be more problems relating to identity in the future |
B.Internet technology helps solve problems of identity |
C.only people traveling abroad have problems of identity |
D.people don’t need to worry about identity |
In the past,most American mothers were at home to take care of their children during the day. Now, 36 , many mothers are working. More than half of the American women with young children have 37 outside the house.
American families solve the child care 38 in different ways. Some parents allow older children to stay at home alone after school. The parents 39 make sure that their children, usually not younger than 10 years old, understand 40 rules and can deal with emergencies (紧急情况). Other parents say they would 41 allow their children to be at home alone. They usually 42 someone to take care of the children.
Some parents in the U. S. find their own ways to cut the cost of child care. They join child care 43 . Each person in the group 44 for the children of other group members at different times. Some parents ask local churches, schools and social organizations to help 45 activities for the children. These child care choices often cost 46 or no money. Many American parents, however, still struggle with the problem of 47 good child care at a reasonable price.
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