1. Shielded by third-party payers from the cost of our care, we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it’s useless. (2003. 阅读. Text 4)【译文】由于医疗费用由
1. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. (2003. 阅读. Text 3)【
1. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle h
1. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men.【译文】每出生
1. When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is p
1. The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teenagers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrif
1. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the wo
1. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology. (2006. 阅读. Text 4)【译
1. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. (2
1. This is the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consumption launched by the 19th –century department stores that offered ‘vast arrays of g