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9、requested that all the students present at the meeting tomorrowAwere Bwill be Care DbePart III Reading Comprehension （55 minutes，40 points）Directions：There are four passages in this partEach of the passages is followed by five questions or unfinished statementsFor each of them there are four choices
10、 marked A，B, C and DChoose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centerPassage OneIn ancient Greek, the term euthanatos meant “easy death”. Today euthanasia （安乐死） generally refers to mercy killing，the voluntary （自愿） ending of the life of someone who is
11、terminally illLike abortion，euthanasia has become a legal，medical，and moral issue over which opinion is dividedEuthanasia can be either active or passiveActive euthanasia means that a physician or other medical personnel takes an action that will result in death，such as giving an overdose of deadly
12、medicinePassive euthanasia means letting a patient die for lack of treatment，or stopping the treatment that has begunExamples of passive euthanasia include taking patients off a breathing machine or removing other life-support systemsStopping the food supply is also considered passiveA good deal of
13、the debate about mercy killing originates from the decision-making processWho decides whether a patient is to die? This issue has not been solved legally in the United StatesThe matter is left to state law, which usually allows the physician in charge to suggest the option of death to a patients rel
14、atives，especially if the patient is brain deadIn an attempt to make decisions about when their own lives should end, several terminally ill patients in the early 1990s used a controversial suicide device，developed by Dr. Jack Kevorkian, to end their lives.In parts of Europe, the decision-making proc
15、ess has become very flexibleEven in cases where the patients are not brain dead，patients have been put to death without their approval at the request of relatives or at the suggestion of physiciansMany cases of passive euthanasia involve old people or newborn infants. The principle justifying this p
16、ractice is that such individuals have a “life not worthy of life”.In countries where passive euthanasia is not legal, the court systems have proved very tolerant in dealing with medical personnel who practice itIn Japan, for example, if physicians follow certain guidelines they may actively carry ou
17、t mercy killings on hopelessly ill people. Courts have also been somewhat tolerant of friends or relatives who have assisted terminally ill patients to die36A terminally ill patient is one who .Agets worse every day Bcan never get well againCis very seriously ill in the end Dis too ill to want to li
18、ve on37The difference between active and passive euthanasia is whether .Athere is an action that speeds up the death of the patientBthe breathing machine is taken off the patientCan overdose of deadly medicine is usedDthe patient is denied food supply38According to the passage，who has/have the legal
19、 responsibility to decide on euthanasia?AThe national or state governmentBThe patients relativesCPhysicians in charge of the patientDThe answer varies from country to country39The principle justifying passive euthanasia in Europe is that terminally ill patients are .Aliving a life without consciousn
20、essBliving a life that can hardly be called lifeCtoo old or too weak to live onDtoo old or too young to approve of euthanasia40The attitude of the writer toward euthanasia is .Anegative Bpositive Cobjective DcasualPassage TwoNext week, as millions of families gather for their Thanksgiving （感恩节） feas
21、ts，many other Americans will go withoutAccording to the United States Department of Agriculture，more than 12 million households lack enough food for everyone in their family at some time during the yearincluding holidaysHunger is surprisingly widespread in our countryone of the worlds wealthiestyet
22、the government estimates that we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year，more than one-quarter of our total supplyReducing this improper distribution of resources is a goal of Americas Second Harvest，the nations largest domestic hunger-relief organizationLast year，it distributed nearly 2 b
23、illion pounds of food to more than 23 million people in needAmericas Second Harvest is a network of 214 inter-connected food banks and other organizations that gather food from growers，processors，grocery stores and restaurantsIn turn，the network distributes food to some 50，000 soup kitchens，homeless
24、 shelters and old peoples centers in every county of every state.A great deal of work is involved in distributing tons of food from thousands of donors （捐赠者） to hundreds of small, nonprofit organizationsUntil a few years ago，Americas Second Harvest lacked any effective way to manage their inventoryW
25、ithout accurate and timely information，soup kitchens were sometimes empty while food was left to spoil in loading placesIn 2000, Americas Second Harvest began to use a new inventory and financial-management systemCeresIt is software designed specifically for hunger-relief operationsIt is used by mor
26、e than 100 Americas Second Harvest organizations to track food from donation to distributionCeres has helped reduce the spoiling of food and improve distributionAn evaluation found that the software streamlined food banks operations by 23 percent in the first year aloneWith more accurate and timely
27、reports，Ceres saves time，flees staff members to focus on finding new donors，and promises more efficient use of donations.Hunger in America remains a troubling social problemTechnology alone cannot solve itBut in the hands of organizations such as Americas Second Harvest, it is a powerful tool that i
28、s helping to make a differenceand helping more Americans to join in the feast41According to the passage，the total supply of food in America every year reaches .A12 million pounds Bmore than 12 million poundsCalmost 100 billion pounds Dabout 400 billion pounds42By “this improper distribution of resou
29、rces” in Paragraph 3，the writer means that many Americans lack enough food while .Atheir country is one of the richest in the worldBmuch food is left to spoilCothers waste too much foodDothers consume too much food43A problem for Americas Second Harvest a few years ago was that Ait did not get enough food from donorsBit did not have a large enough networkCit did not have enough soup kitchensDit did not have a good way to manage its food stock44With Ceres，Americas Second Harvest is now able to Aenlarge
