单选题
Abortion. The word alone causes civil conversation
to flee the room. This is largely because the pro-choice and pro-life positions
are being defined by their extremes, by those who scream accusations instead of
arguments. More reasonable voices and concerns, on both sides
of the fence, are given little attention. For example, pro-life
extremists seem unwilling to draw distinctions between some abortions and
others, such as those resulting from rape with an underage child. They would
make no exception in the recent real-life case of a woman who discovered in her
fifth month that her baby would be born dead due to severe
disabilities. On the other hand, pro-choice extremists within
feminism insist on holding inconsistent positions. The pregnant woman has an
unquestionable fight to abort, they claim. Yet if the biological father has no
say whatsoever over the woman's choice, is it reasonable to impose legal
obligations upon him for child support? Can absolute legal obligation adhere
without some sort of corresponding legal rights? The only hope
for progress in the abortion dialogue lies in the great excluded middle,in the
voices of average people who see something wrong with a young girl forced to
bear the baby of a rapist. Any commentary on abortion should
include a statement of the writer's position. I represent what seems to be a
growing "middle ground" in pro-choice opinion. Legally, I believe in the right
of every human being to medically control everything under his or her own skin.
Many things people have a legal right to do, however, seem clearly wrong tome.
adultery, lying to friends, walking past someone who is bleeding on the street.
Some forms of abortion fall into that category. Morally speaking, my doubts have
become so extreme that I could not undergo the procedure past the first three
months and I would attempt to dissuade friends from doing so.
Fanatics on both sides are using reprehensible and deceitful tactics. An honest
dialogue on abortion must start by re-setting the stage, by denouncing the
approaches that block communication.
单选题
According to the passage, the pro-life and pro-choice positions on
abortion are______.
A.complementary to each other
B.opposed to each other
C.similar in nature
D.reconcilable in a way
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有B项为正确答案。这可从文中的内容推知，即在谈到堕胎这一问题时，因为两派都走极端，所以就会causes civil conversation to flee the room，也就是两派的观点根本不相容。
单选题
To a pro-life extremist,______.
A.all babies should be carded to term
B.babies resulting form rape should not be born
C.deformed babies can be aborted when detected
D.an underage girl has no right to give birth
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有A项为正确答案。这可从文中第三段的“pro—life extremists seem unwilling to draw distinctions between some abortions and others”推知，即他们不加区别地反对一切流产。因此选项A“所有孩子都应该足月出生”正确。
单选题
According to the pro-choice position,______.
A.a pregnant woman cannot abort her baby if its father agrees to keep
it
B.a pregnant woman has an absolute right of choice over an abortion
C.the baby's father also has a say over its mother's choice of
abortion
D.the baby's father has an unalienable obligation to support the
baby
单选题
The author doubts the legal right to lie to friends as well as the one
to______.
A.abort a fetus in its fifth month
B.view the photos of late-term abortion
C.give birth to a baby in one's teenage
D.dispose of what ever under one's skin
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有A项为正确答案。这可从文中的“…I could not undergo the procedure past the first three months and I would attempt to dissuade friends from doing so”推知，即作者认为怀孕3个月之后就不做流产了，而且也劝她的朋友不能这么做。因此么选项A“打掉一个5个月大的胎儿”正确。
单选题
The author, as a "middle ground" person,______.
A.actually holds a mild pro-life opinion
B.proposes that a rapist's baby never be born
C.advocates a serious dialogue on abortion
D.denies the principle "a woman's body, a woman's right"