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unit5-reading Part 1 Cloze (with four choices provided)(每小题： 分) Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices given for each blank. Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage. Sometimes medical advancements present us with a tough choice to make. People think medicine has created some 1. questions to sort out. For example, modern medical treatment can keep the body living well after patients have lost 2. to live. We have machines to 3. as organs. And we can feed a person by letting fluids 4. into their body. This can be done 5. they cant eat themselves. Sometimes, even when the mind 6. functioning, the body keeps on working. Should we keep our loved ones alive through surgical procedures, hoping for a 7. ? Or, 8. their treatment and only provide drugs for the pain? This would allow them to die in a more 9. way. The 10. two options are not against the law. 11. courts sometimes need to get involved. This is especially true when loved ones have 12. opinions on what should be done. There is a third option that has the 13. of a great many people, but is against the law. We can 14. the death of our loved one. This can be done 15. he no longer has to suffer. In the past, there was very 16. that could be done to save a person in great danger. Once he had 17. a serious illness, doctors could do nothing. It was not 18. for people to live long after suffering major illness. Neither did people often live long after body organ 19. . Many believe that people nowadays are kept alive for much 20. than they should be. Some even believe that the kindest thing to do for a person who is dying and in a good deal of pain is to help them to die quickly and painlessly. Part 1 Cloze (with four choices provided) (每小题: 1 分; 满分：20 分) 小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观 1. 1 complex complex 2. 1 the will the will 3. 1 function function 4. 1 drip drip 5. 1 even when even when 6. 1 ceases ceases 7. 1 miracle miracle 8. 1 re