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The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.

{{B}}Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.{{/B}}

I______a letter to an Internet service that distributes journalists' questions to more than 750 institutions.

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The use of penicillin is limited by its tendency to induce allergic relations.

For this part，you are asked to write a composition on the topic“It Pays to Be Honest”．Your composition should be no less than 150 words based on the given outline． 1．做人应以诚为本 2．举例来支持你的观点 3．对全文作出总结

A. Well, about costumesB. But you know me with fashionC. I kind of feel that it's more about music itselfD. So you have to change just enough Interviewer: Does the show have a concept?Interviewee: Well, it's going to be much more...【D7】______Not that we didn't do that before. It's putting more emphasis on big orchestra, music, musicians, singers, songs. We want to do music at the purest as possible, like the old days I guess. So if it's a concept...Interviewer: How about costume style?Interviewee: I think it is very well.Interviewer: How about costume changes?Interviewee:【D8】______yes, I think people like to see artists change in different outfits. Again, it's a ... you have to be careful with that. People want you to change. They want to see outfits. And if you change too much, they say it's too much. And if you change too little, they say it's not enough.【D9】______You can't please everybody. But I have a wonderful stylist, Annie Horth, that I'm going to be working with her again and who will make sure that we can please as many people as possible.【D10】______I enjoy that very, very much. So I will try to change, not too little and not too much.

Is the customer always right? The answer, it seems, depends on which country you are in. shopping is very much a part of a country's culture, and attitudes to shopping and consumers vary from country to country just as much as climate or taste in food. From the air-conditioned American shopping centers to the street market of African towns, the way we shop shows the way we seen ourselves and our relationships with other people. Business competition in Europe has given consumers increased power. This has meant falling prices, plenty of special offers and a re-examination of what customer service really means. People often point to America as an example of excellent customer service. In restaurants in the south of the USA, for example, waiters compliment you on your clothes, ask about your day, compliment you on the wisdom of your order and then return every ten minutes to refill your glass and make sure that everything is to your satisfaction. Anyone who has waited 30 minutes to be served in a restaurant might well dream of such attention, but do Europeans really want US style service? As a friend of mine once told me, "By the end of the evening I had spent as much time talking to the waiter as to my wife. " It is a question of expectation. Different nationalities expect different types of service.A Chinese-American friend loves telling people about how her Chinese mother shops for clothes: "First of all she waits until they are on sale, then she bargains until she gets an even better price and then she finds some small fault with the product and demands a further reduction. She never buys anything at the regular price. " Could you imagine trying such tricks in a department store in your country? Attitudes to service are, of course, affected by employers' attitudes to their workers. As American sales and service personnel are heavily reliant on commission and tips, they have more motives to provide more service. But is this fair? Do we think it is fair to ask shop assistants to work late evenings, Sundays and 12 hour shifts? It might not be a case of "Is the customer always right?" but a case of "How much service is it fair to expect?"

For the audience to better understand the new concept, the professor elaborated it with many examples.

A. Wushu schools have developed quicklyB. Wushu has a very deep base from the massesC. It can strengthen physical healthA: I've admiration for Chinese Kung Fu. Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jackie Chan are very popular in movies circle.B: I like the movie Huang Feihong best. Do you enjoy swordsman movie?A: Sure.B: But someone said that the swordsman was a dream of the modern people.A: The value of Wushu itself is very high.【D4】______ .B: In recent years,【D5】______ .A: Tell me the reason.B: Because the government calls on the whole people participating in keep-fit exercise and encourages the masses to run schools. In addition,【D6】______ .

Many observers believe that country will remain in a state of chaos if it fails to solve its chronic food shortage problem.

A. They drink coffee and chatB. there is always a special room for people boiling coffeeC. many of them take coffee back to their desk and keep on workingA: Grace, how do you know about coffee?B: Coffee is the usual drink now. Many joint-ventures companies in Beijing allow their staff a "coffee time" and【D1】______ .A: Can you tell me some detail about the "coffee time"?B: Yes. In companies, employees are allowed to have coffee breaks twice a day. They are often in the morning and mid afternoon. People use the 15 minutes to relax.【D2】______.A: So they have a rest in both the morning and the afternoon?B: Yes. But because of the heavy pressure of work,【D3】______ .A: Oh, are there any other drinks for them?B: Besides, Americans like tea, cola, milk and other soft drinks. In summer, the ice tea and ice coffee are widely drunk.A: Can we say that the westerners like coffee as same as our Chinese like tea?B: Yes, what you said is absolutely right!

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Writeacompositionofatleast150wordsbasedonthefollowingpicture.Youshoulddescribethepicture,giveyouropiniononthetopic,andusespecificreasonsand/orexamplestosupportyourself.WriteyouranswersontheANSWERSHEET.

The two soldiers spent many years together, fighting________and sharing their victories and disappointments.

Even our Mitsubishi four-wheel-drive truck gets altitude sickness once in a while , so we like to give her a rest whenever we can.

Do you forget to turn off the lights and heaters when you go out of a room? In 2040 it will not matter. They will turn themselves off and on again when you return. You will choose the temperature for each room, the lighting and the humidity. A sensor will detect the presence of a human(and, with luck, ignore the dog!)and turn the systems on, and when the humans leave it will turn them off again. The sensors will work through the central computer, and they will do much more than just turn the fires and lights on and off for you. They will detect faulty electrical appliances, plugs or switches, isolate them so that they cannot harm anyone, and then warn you that they need repair. They will detect fire and if you are out of the house, the computer will call the fire brigade. It will also call the police should the sensors detect an intruder. This will not be too difficult because the locks on the outside doors will be electronic. You will open them using your personal card—the one you use for shopping—maybe using a number known only to you. It will be impossible to lose the key, and a housebreaker will have to tamper(拨弄)with the lock or with a window. It is not very difficult to make such tampering send a signal to the computer. The computer will be more than a fireman-policeman-servant. It will be an entertainer, and most of your entertainment will come right into your home. It does now, of course, but by 2040 "entertainment" will mean much more. For one thing, you will be able to take part actively, rather than just watching.

While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline—after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late 1980s—and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down-shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 1980s, downshifting in the mid-'90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.

With the Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund(WWF), China is making a concerted and dedicated effort to save the endangered pandas. The results, officials here in Chengdu indicate, are mixed but encouraging. A clear disappointment is the failure to breed pandas in captivity, necessary if their decreasing numbers are to be replaced. Another failure has been the incapability of finding a natural, readily available food to replace the arrow bamboo. Despite these failures, success has come on two fronts. One achievement has been the physical rescue effort. Some pandas have been kept alive by salting(空投)the mountains with tons of cooked meat, which pandas will eat as a substitute for bamboo, and by the planting of new bamboo in isolated areas. Animals in some Sichuan areas have been rescued by local peasants and given emergency treatment by animal doctors. A second achievement is a massive fund-raising effort. Publicity about the pandas' plight has resulted in a new $ 100,000 emergency allocation by the WWF and independent fund drives both in China and abroad. In spite of this support, there have been conflicts in the panda relief program. One important problem is the difficulty Peking is having balancing the recommendations of environmentalists with China's ambitious goal of agricultural and industrial modernization. Wolong is but one example of this difficulty. This 494,000-acre preserve was declared a protected area in 1975. Yet 1,800 people, mostly Tibetans, still live in the preserve, logging trucks still roll down the narrow mountain roads, and blasting work still goes on at the site of a new 160,000-kilowatt hydroelectric plant just six miles away. This all means that the pandas' fight for survival will not be an easy one, even with the concerted effort of man. For in the end, even if they can survive the dangers of the wild, they must still contend with man himself.