20年(1997-2017)考研英语阅读理解真题(附答案).docxVIP

ITextl (1997) Passage 1 It was 3:45 in the morni ng whe n the vote was fin ally take n. After six mon ths of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentarydebates,Australia NorthernTerritorybecamethe first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of in curably ill patie nts who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by Joh n Hofsess, executive director of the Rght to Die Society of Can ada. He sent it on via the groupi ne service, DeathNET. Says Hofsess: qu