单选题 Supporters of abortion rights held a lunch recently in honor of a momentous victory for their cause: 40 years ago, New York became the first state to fully legalize abortion. That 1970 law began to reduce the death and injury toll from back-alley abortions and set the stage for the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which made abortion legal nationwide and recognized a constitutional right to privacy.
But abortion-rights groups are newly anxious about new assaults on women's reproductive rights, including a fight over abortion that snarled the last days of the health care reform debate. Anti-abortion groups are newly emboldened. Kelli Conlin, head of Naral Pro-Choice New York, told guests at the lunch that "anti-choice forces are mobilizing in every single state to limit a woman's access to abortion in more insidious ways than we can imagine. "
As Ms. Conlin was speaking, members of the Oklahoma House were getting ready to override vetoes of two punishing abortion measures. The state's Democratic governor, Brad Henry, rightly viewed these intrusions into women's lives and decision-making as unconstitutional. One of the measures, which seems destined to spawn copycat bills in other states, requires women to undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion and further mandates that a doctor or technician set up the monitor so the woman can see it and hear a detailed description of the fetus. The other law grants protection from lawsuits to doctors who deliberately withhold fetal testing results that might affect a woman's decision about whether to carry her pregnancy to term.
Several states have either passed or are considering bills that would ban abortion coverage in insurance plans sold through the state exchanges established by the federal health care law. A new Utah law criminalizes certain behavior by women that results in miscarriage. Embarking on a road that could lead to the Supreme Court, Nebraska last month banned most abortions at the 20th week of pregnancy based on a questionable theory of fetal pain. About two dozen states are looking at bills to increase counseling requirements or waiting periods prior to abortions. About 20 states are considering new ultrasound requirements. "One in three women in this country will have an abortion in her lifetime, and yet we're having exactly the same discussions and debates we were having forty years ago," Ms. Conlin said.
Anti-abortion forces aim ultimately to make abortion illegal. So far, by reducing the number of abortion providers, making insurance coverage more expensive and harder to get, and throwing up other obstacles, they have primarily succeeded in making it harder for women of modest and meager means to obtain a safe and legal medical procedure.
The painful decision to end a pregnancy should be made in private between a woman and her doctor—not in politically driven debate among members of Congress and state legislatures.

单选题 The Supreme Court's 1973 decision was important because
[A] it made anti-abortion groups launch fiercer assaults.
[B] it confirmed women's private rights to reproduction.
[C] it put the 1970 law of New York state into wide application.
[D] it marked the end of the efforts by abortion-rights groups.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】第一段提到了Roe诉Wade案的两个意义，一是它使堕胎在全国范围内变得合法；二是recognized a constitutional right to privacy，这里的含义是：堕胎是一个人的私事，是一件受宪法保护的隐私权。在文章最后一段，作者再次强调了这一基本立场，即是否终止妊娠．这是一件私事，不应该是一件由立法机构公开争论的事情。
单选题 Members of the Oklahoma House were trying to
[A] make a similar law to that of the New York state.
[B] beat anti-choice forces in their mobilization.
[C] formulate two measures for punishing abortion.
[D] make matters of abortion difficult for women.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】第三段第一句提到，俄克拉何马州众议院正准备撤销对两项惩罚堕胎的措施的否决权。也就是说，有两项法律措施。可以依据它们对堕胎实施惩罚，支持堕胎的人要否决这两项法律，但是反对堕胎的议员们试图制止那些支持堕胎的议员实施否决权。根据第三段后文，这两项法律措施均旨在使堕胎过程变得复杂，并使得孕妇在堕胎时更可能瞻前顾后，增加其心理负担。
单选题 Utah and Nebraska are mentioned to show
[A] it is illegal for the two states to ban abortion coverage in insurance.
[B] the states have no right in criminalizing abortion or miscarriage.
[C] some states use subtle ways to restrict women's access to abortion.
[D] many laws should be made by the Supreme Court, not by state legislatures.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第四段提到了几个州作为例子，用来说明反对堕胎的力量在各州正在企图为堕胎设置各种各样的障碍。实际上，第三段提到俄克拉何马州也是出于同样的目的。第三、四段提到的例子都旨在说明第二段最后一句中Conlin提到的现象，即：anti-choice forces are mobilizing in every single state to limit a woman's access to abortion in more insidious ways than we can imagine。第五段第一句照应了这一句话：Anti-abortion forces aim ultimately to make abortion illegal.
单选题 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an anti-abortion endeavor?
[A] Specifying the conditions under which abortion can occur.
[B] Reducing or banning abortion coverage in insurance plans.
[C] Allowing one in three women to undergo abortion.
[D] Raising the amount of abortion insurance coverage.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】第四段最后一句中提到的one in three(“三分之一”)是一个统计数字，并不是一项法律规定。
单选题 According to the author, the anti-abortion forces have done nothing but
[A] spreading peril for women's privacy and freedom.
[B] increasing insurance coverage for pregnant women.
[C] obtaining safe and legal medical procedure for women.
[D] ending pregnant women's pain in decision making.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】在第五段总结第三、四段的讨论时作者指出，Anti-abortion forces aim ultimately to make abortion illegal.反对堕胎的人使用了各种各样的办法，其最终目的就是使堕胎变得非法。在作者看来，这显然侵害了妇女的隐私权，把一个本来应该属于私人领域的问题扩大到公开讨论的领域，这样做显然是不妥的。