单选题On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia: Intentionally administering a lethal (致死的) drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to be relieved of suffering. Twenty times a day, life-prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn when there is no hope that it can effect an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books, punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted. Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing" is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses readily admit to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a, sometimes, fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves upholding sacred principles of respect for life, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive, the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents' to a poll taken last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings. Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936, when a bill was introduced in the House of Lords that would have legalized mercy killing under very tightly supervised conditions. That bill failed, as have three others introduced in the House of Lords since then. Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, like Americans, are now living longer. Therefore, lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death. And the advocates of euthanasia argue that every human being should have the right to "die with dignity," by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization (住院治疗). Most experts believe that euthanasia will continue to be practiced no matter what the law says.

单选题Yao Ming is ______ the best-known basketball player in China, who is now playing for the Rockets.

单选题Man: Didn't you advise Frank against smoking? Woman: Yes, but whatever I say to him goes in one ear and out the other. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题Formulated in 1823 ,the Monroe Doctrine asserted that, he Americas were no longer open to European colonization.

单选题The teacher wishes to speak to you ______ your being late.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune defenses of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral immunologist ( 免疫学家) Mark Laudenslager, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could switch off the current by turning a wheel in their enclosure, while the other half could not. The rats in the two groups were paired so that each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itself and its helpless partner from the shock. Laudenslager found that the immune response was depressed below normal in the helpless rats but not in those that could turn off the electricity. What he has demonstrated, he believes, is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itself, is what wakens the immune system. Other researchers agree. Jay Weiss, a psychologist at Duke University School of Medicine, has shown that animals who are allowed to control unpleasant stimuli don't develop sleep disturbances or changes in brain chemistry typical of stressed rats. But if the animals are conditioned to confront with situations they have no control over, they later behave passively even when faced with experiences they can control. Such findings reinforce psychologists' suspicions that the experience or perception of helplessness is one of the most harmful factors in depression. One of the most startling examples of how the mind can alter the immune response was discovered by chance. In 1975 psychologist Robert Ader at the University of Rochester School of Medicine conditioned (使形成条件反射) mice to avoid saccharin (糖精) by simultaneously feeding them the sweetener and injecting them with a drug that while suppressing their immune systems caused stomach upsets. Associating the saccharin with the stomach pains, the mice quickly learned to avoid the sweetener. In order to extinguish this dislike for the sweetener, Ader reexposed the animals to saccharin, this time without the drug, and was astonished to find that those mice that had received the highest amounts of sweetener during their earlier conditioning died. He could only speculate that he had so successfully conditioned the rats that saccharin alone now served to weaken their immune systems enough to kill them.

单选题This work is expected to Ufulfill/U a need that lawyers have felt for many years.

单选题A (more sophisticated) analysis shows that an expansion (rather than) a boycott of wood products is (that) we really ought to (be after).A. more sophisticatedB. rather thanC. thatD. be after

单选题The bat is a marvel of evolutionary adaptation. Most of them roost during the day, and are active at night or twilight for they can avoid objects in the dark. I have seen this phenomenon at work. In my youth I used to explore old mining shafts in the Randsburg district. Sometimes my intrusion disturbed clans of bats that were hanging upside down in the dark caves. They would fly about to evident panic, but the panic was mine, not theirs. Some flew crazily out into the daylight but some merely returned to their perches. None ever touched me, much to my relief. They may exist but I have never seen a stuffed nylon bat. To children, bats may not be as lovable as koala bears. Perhaps manufacturers do not regard them as marketable. It is not so much their hideous faces and winged bodies that have caused us to get rid of bats, but rather the ancient myths in which dead humans, such as Count Dracula, leave their graves at night in the form of bats to suck blood from human victims, especially fragile young woman. As we know from some movies these vampires must return to their graves before daylight. Endangered young women can frustrate vampire by sleeping with a string of garlic around their necks. There are actually three species of bloodsucking bats. They are called vampire bats after the ancient legends, and their tactics are indeed frightful. Like Count Dracula, they feed at night. They make a small cut in their sleeping victim with sharp incisor teeth, usually not even awakening their prey. Then they suck the blood that sustains them. Should that discourage children from wanting them as pets? As Mitchell notes from the New Yorker ad, bats are clean and intelligent. Most of them are insect-eaters, and they serve nature by destroying crop-damaging insects. They also pollinate (传授花粉) flowers and spreading seed. Bat Conservation International claims that without bats a host of insects/pests would multiply unchecked and many of our planet's most valuable plants would go unpollinated. It is clear that the bat is our friend, and that, despite its appearance, it is here to serve humanity. I'd be the first to buy a stuffed nylon bat. Children's hearts are big, and bats need love, too.

单选题A: What's up with Donald? I've never seen him so happy. B:______

单选题These students are so busy with their lessons that they go to big department stores once in a while.

单选题Chinese parents believe that they know what"s best for their children and therefore have ultimate 1 over their children"s desires and preferences. Chinese children have no rights to break rules, which is why Chinese daughters can"t have boyfriends in high school and there are no trips to sleep-away camp. 2 even the slightest defiance or indignation, anything less than unquestioning obedience, is 3 , and punished into submission. Don"t get me wrong—it"s not that Chinese parents don"t care about their children. In fact, just the 4 ! Chinese parents give up anything and everything to help their children. It"s just an 5 different parenting model. Westerners 6 respecting the children"s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, 7 their choices, and providing a positive and nurturing environment. But 8 western children may have a high opinion of themselves and glowing self-esteem, how do they perform in the real world? Chinese parents protect their children by armoring them for the future, letting them see what they"re 9 of, and conferring upon them skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away. When the time comes to 10 , Chinese children have a blueprint for success; they know how to compete and win—with the best the world has to offer. The proof is in the pudding!

单选题In principle, a person whose conduct was caused by mental disorder should not be liable to Criminal______.

单选题Woman: I'm tired of driving all the way to work and back every day, If only cars could drive themselves! Man: Well, some car manufacturers are working on them. I guess you'll soon buy one if you can afford it. Question: What does the man imply?

单选题She (would marry) him, (but) when she (learned) that he was a rascal, she (parted with) him.

单选题One U.S. dollar is {{U}}comparable{{/U}} to 131 Japanese yen according to China Daily’s finance news report yesterday.

单选题Lou Gehrig established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player.

单选题Judgment was suspended till the following Monday because of the lack of evidence.