56. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that .
[A] doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients’ pain.
[B] it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives.
[C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide.
[D] patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.
[答案] B
[解题思路]
A选项对应于文章第三段的第一句话“Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain”(近年来，医生们一直在用这项原则，为自己替病危患者注射大剂量的吗啡镇痛的做法提供正当的理由)，但是显然选项与原文不符，用大剂量并不表示医生们总是会增加剂量。C选项对应于文章第二段第一句话“Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect””(尽管裁决认为，宪法没有赋予医生帮助病人自杀的权利，然而最高法庭实际上却认可了医疗界的“双重效应”原则)，这说明最高法院的态度至少不是强烈反对。D选项的对应信息同C选项，但是原文的意思是“宪法没有赋予医生帮助病人自杀的权利”，没有提到“宪法没有赋予病人自杀的权力”，因而也是错误选项。同样，也很容易判断B是正确选项。
[题目译文]
从前三段，我们了解到
[A] 医生过去通过增加剂量来减轻病人的痛苦
[B] 医生帮助那些垂死的病人结束生病现在仍然是非法的
[C] 最高法院强烈反对医生协助病人自杀
[D] 病人没有宪法赋予的自杀权力
