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It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and a final 16 hours of hot parliamentar

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问题     It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and a final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debating, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure was 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 John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group’s on-line service,Death NET. Says Hofsess:"We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history. "
    The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally I11 Law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief; others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia—where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part. Other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
    Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death—probably by a deadly injection or pill—to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally 111 Law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks, "he says.
From the second paragraph we learn that______.
选项 A、the objection to euthanasia is diminishing in some countries
B、physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasia
C、technological changes are chiefly responsible for the new law
D、it takes time to appreciate the significance of laws passed
答案D
解析 推论题。认识到法案获通过的重要意义需要一定的时间。第二段一开始就谈到，需要花一段时间才能彻底了解其全部含意(The full import may take a while to sink in)。比如说在澳大利亚澳北区(NT)，医生和老百姓都在思考晚期病人权利法批准后相关道义和实际方面的含义。一些人为此而松了一口气(breathed sighs of relief)，而另一些人却猛烈攻击通过此法案，但是这一潮流不可能回转(But the tide is unliely to turn back)。由此可推断，认识到法案获通过的重要意义需要一定的时间。其他几项，选项A、C文中未提及，选项B与第二段第三句的说法不符。所以正确答案为[D]。sink in渗人，沁进，被理解，被了解；如：The warning failed to sink in，and he got intotrouble as a consequence．他没理解那个警告，因此惹上了麻烦。Terminally Ill Law：晚期病人权法
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