单选题The chief concern of British universities is ______.

单选题Questions 14—16 are based on the following passage about education in the United States. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14—16.

单选题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 patients. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death. " George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like surgery," he says. "We don't call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can risk your patients' suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide. " On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the under-treatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. "Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering," to the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse. " He says medical licensing boards "must make it clear.., that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension. /

单选题Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: (21) it, it would not be possible to pay the soldiers and policemen who protect us; (22) the workers in government offices who (23) our health, our food, our water, and all (24) things that we can not do for ourselves. By (25) of taxation, we pay for things that we need as (26) as we need somewhere to live and something to eat. In most countries, a direct tax on persons, (27) is called income tax, exists. It is arranged in such a way that the poorest people pay (28) , and the percentage of tax grows greater as the tax-payer's (29) grows. In England, for example, the tax on the (30) people goes up as high as ninety-five percent! But countries with direct taxation nearly always have (31) taxation too. Many things imported into the country have to pay taxes or"duties". (32) ,it is the men and women who buy the imported things in the shops who really (33) pay the duties, in the (34) of higher prices. In some countries, too, there is a tax (35) things sold in the shops. If the most necessary things are taxed, a lot of money is collected, but the poor people suffer (36) . If unnecessary things like jewels and fur coats are taxed, (37) is obtained, but the tax is fairer, as the (38) l pay it. Probably this last kind of indirect tax, (39) with a direct on incomes which is low for the poor and high for the rich, is (40) arrangement.

单选题Young girls like ______colors while old women enjoy dark ones. [A] bright [B] deep [C] new

单选题To succeed, a magazine with a multimillion circulation must be aimed at______.

单选题According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a robot that can ______.

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that silversmiths and articles coppersmiths in colonial America were similar in which of the following ways?

单选题The author believes that in World War______.

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