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.
57. Which of the following statements its true according to the text?
[A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients’ death.
[B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.
[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.
[D] A doctor’s medication is no longer justified by his intentions.
58. According to the NAS’s report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is .
[A] prolonged medical procedures.
[B] inadequate treatment of pain.
[C] systematic drug abuse.
[D] insufficient hospital care.
59. Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive" (line 3, paragraph 7)?
[A] Bold
[B] Harmful
[C] Careless
[D] Desperate
60. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they .
[A] manage their patients incompetently.
[B] give patients more medicine than needed.
[C] reduce drug dosages for their patients.
[D] prolong the needless suffering of the patients.
[第56题答案及题解页数] B 第页
[第57题答案及题解页数] C 第页
[第58题答案及题解页数] B 第页
[第59题答案及题解页数] A 第页
[第60题答案及题解页数] D 第页
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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.
主体句式：The Court in effect supported the medical principle of…
结构分析：这个句子的组成成分也比较复杂。首先在主句前面是一个Although引导的让步状语从句，与主句形成转折关系。“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”是一个同位语，具体解释前文提到的principle。同位语中holding后面包含了一个that引导的宾语从句，从句的主语是an action having two effects is permissible，其中两个破折号之间的内容解释说明了“two effects”。
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.
