【答案解析】本题为词汇题。terminal意为“末端的,晚期的”,a terminally ill patient表示“晚期患者,绝症病人”,即选can never get well again“无法再治愈了”。考生也可以根据第三段“…several terminally ill patients in the early 1990s used a controversial suicide device,developed by Dr. Jack Kevorkian,to end their lives.”推断出应该是“不可能再治好的病人”才有可能采取“安乐死”。