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考研英语阅读理解 —— 唐迟 2003 text 4 56. What is implied in the first sentence? 57. The author uses the example of caner patients to show that ________. 58. The authors attitude toward Richard Lamms remark is one of ________. 59. In contrast to the US, Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care ________. 60. The text intends to express the idea that ________. 56. What is implied in It is said that in England death is pressing, in the first sentence? Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans life expectancy has [A] Americans are better nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips prepared for death than can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, other people. cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical [B] Americans enjoy a procedure. Such advances offer the aging higher life quality than population a quality of life that was unimaginable ever before. when I entered medicine 50 years ago. But not [C] Americans are over- even a great health-care system can cure confident of their death — and our failure to confront that reality medical technology. now threatens this greatness of ours. [D] Americans take a vain pride in their long life expectancy. Death is normal; we are genetically programmed 57. The author uses the to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions. We all understand that at some level, example of caner yet as medical consumers we treat death as a patients to show that problem to be solved. Shielded by