Question

Read the passage carefully．Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words．

　　How would you cope if you had a terminal illness? What if your son or daughter had no hope of ever having a normal life due to a life-threatening condition? Do these terminally sick people have the right to die?

　　In the UK, the question of assisted suicide or refusing medical treatment is extremely divisive(有分歧的); euthanasia is illegal in Britain, which is the act of helping a terminally-ill person to kill himself．

　　However, a 13-year-old English girl has won the right to refuse medical treatment this week after a hospital dropped a legal attempt to force her to have a heart transplant．Hannah Jones, who has spent eight years in and out of hospital battling heart problems, told child protection officers she wanted to die with dignity rather than face the operation and have to take constant medical treatment afterwards．Despite initial efforts by her local health authority to remove Hannah from her family and force her to undergo the transplant, legal and medical experts said that a child of her age was able to make an informed decision to refuse treatment．

　　Hannah’s decision to stop treatment and spend the rest of her life at home with her family was made entirely by herself, according to her father, who spoke of his admiration for her．"Hannah made that decision consciously on her own, a bit like a grown-up, even though she was only 12 at the time, and she has maintained that decision," said Andrew Jones．

　　The headmaster of Hannah’s school described her as intelligent and capable of making her own decisions．"Her presence is a source of inspiration to us all through the courage and dignity that she displays," he said．

(Note：Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS．)

1．What is “euthanasia”(in paragraph 2)?

2．The hospital’s original plan for Hannah was to ________．

3．Hannah Jones prefers dying with dignity to ________．

4．What does the writer intend to discuss with the example of Hannah?

Answer 1

答案：
解析：

1．The act of helping a terminally-ill person to kill themselves． 　　2．give Hannah a heart transplant 　　3．facing the operation and having to take constant medical treatment 　　4．Terminally sick people’s right to die．