Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 1-5, you are requ!red to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-G to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes.
[A] But Lord McColl said the system of regulation was not working and pointed out the dangers of Britain adopting similar practices under a review of the law now taking place in Whitehall. Last month, Church leaders expressed concern that plans to make "living wills" legally enforceablemarked a further step towards the acceptance of voluntary euthanasia. It is feared that the courts could be used to make case law that would by-pass Parliament and allow doctors to assist the deaths of mentally-incompetent patients.
[B] The action was supported by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society ostensibly to establish the sort of treatment her family doctor was entitled to give. In the event, the case collapsed because the courtruled that the palliative care proposed was already legal. But Lord McColl said: "The purposebehind the Annie Lindsell case was to try to obtain permission to give an unlimited and unspecified dose of diamorphine which could have resulted in her immediate death and would then have been hailed as the first legal case of euthanasia in this country. 考试大,examda.com
[C] Lord McColl said that as a result of lenient judgments by Dutch courts, accepted medical practice changed and euthanasia became acceptable, v He said: "By the time Parliament considered the matter in 1993, it was a case of attempting to shut the stable door after the horse had bolted. " He claimed that attempts were being made in Britain to mirror the position in Holland and cited last years High Court action brought by Annie Lindsell, who suffered from motor neurone disease, w
[D] He said: "How can we be sure that what happens in Holland today will not happen in this country tomorrow ?"
[E] Concern that Britain might follow Holland along the road to widespread use of euthanasia was voiced in the House of Lords last night by one of the country’s leading surgeons.
[F]Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, is considering whether to introduce laws to give statutory force to living wills, whereby an individual states what sort of treatment that they would want should they fall seriously ill. He said last month: "The Government’s opposition to euthanasia is settled, well-known and unqualified. "
[G] Lord MeColl, the Professor of Surgery at Guy’s Hospital, London, said there was evidence from the Netherlands to show that "the current practice of euthanasia is out of control. " Advocates of the "right to die" often point to Holland as a model for how doctor-assisted voluntary euthanasia for terminally-ill patients can work without abuse. [413 words]
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难句透析
①But Lord McColl”said[the system of regulation was not working]and pointed out the dangers of Britain a dopting similar practices]under a review of the law now taking place in Whitehall].
【结构】本句有两个并列的谓语动词:“said”和“pointed out”。方括号所标示的“the system…workin9”是“said”的宾语从句。方括号所标示的现在分词短语“adopting similar practices”是“Britain”的后置定语。方括号所标示的现在分词短语“now taking place in Whitehall”是“review”的后置定语。
【释义】但是,McColl公爵说,约束体制并没有起作用。在英国政府重新审查其关于安乐死的法律时,他指出英国采用相似安乐死管理制度所存在的危险。
②The purpose behind the Annie Lindsell case was[to try to obtain permission to give an unlimited and unspecified dose of diamorphine(which”could have resulted in her immediate death and would then have been hailed as the first legal case of euthanasia in this country)].
【结构】方括号所标示的动词不定式短语“to try…country”用做主句的表语。圆括号所标示的(考试大)“which… country”是“permission”的后置定语从句,其中有两个并列的谓语动词:“could have resulted in”和“would then have been hailed”。
【释义】安妮·林德塞案例背后的目的在于试图获准使用超出限量及规定以外的海洛因,这样就可以让她立即死去,并且成为全国第一例成功的安乐死案例。
③Lord McColl said[-that as a result of lenient J udgments by Dutch courts,”accepted medical practice changed and”euthanasia became acceptable].
