Question

【题目】阅读下列短文，然后按要求写作

Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing or assisted suicide, refers to the practice of ending a person's life in a painless manner, often to relieve intractable suffering.

Euthanasia is illegal in China, and debate about whether to allow the practice has raged since the country's first reported mercy killing in the 1980s.

The case involved Wang Mingcheng, then aged 32, of Shaanxi province, and physician Pu Liansheng, who were convicted of the murder of Wang's mother, Xia Suwen, in1987.

Xia had been diagnosed with terminal severe liver cirrhosis and ascites. Wang pleaded with doctors that his mother be given a lethal injection.

In 1988, the National People's Congress (NPC) deputy Yan Renying called for euthanasia to be legalized in the 7th NPC.

According to a poll conducted by Shaohai Market Investigation Co Ltd in 2003, 64.8 percent of Beijing respondents believed the practice should be legal.

Chen Xingliang, a professor at the Peking University School of Law, said now is not yet the right time to legalize euthanasia in China.

"At the moment, it's hard to identify under what conditions euthanasia should be adopted," he said, adding that, once legalized, euthanasia could be abused as a means of murder.

写作要求：

1.以30字左右概括上文内容

2.以120字就安乐死的利弊发表看法，内容包括：

1）state different views on mercy killing； 2） your attitude and view

Answer 1

【答案】This passage mainly tells us about what mercy killing is and puts forward the doubt whether it is legal to put mercy killing into practice, different people hold different opinions.

Some people think that mercy killing can relieve dying patients of unbearable pain and suffering. They maintain that for these patients who can never be cured, putting the mercy-killing into practice is the best way to let them get rid of the great pain. And their family members will not have to stand the burdens economically or mentally. Others are strongly opposed to mercy killing. They argue that a doctor has no right to end a patient’s life even at the patient’s will.(They insist that people should fight for the hope and never give up life.) Therefore, they conclude that it is illegal for doctors to help the dying to end their lives.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s merciful for the doctors to help these patients come to an end of their life with the mercy-killing. First, to reduce the pain of the patients is one of the doctors’ duty. Second, Everyone has the right and freedom to manage their own life, including the freedom of choosing to die as well as the ways of death. So mercy-killing should be made legal. In short, I am in favor of mercy killing.

【解析】试题分析：本文是一篇任务型写作。共分两个任务：第一个任务用约30个单词写出上文的概要；第二个任务用约120个单词就安乐死的利弊发表看法和感受，第二部分给出了写作提纲，内容包括：state different views on mercy killing；your attitude and view注意完成第一任务时，语言使用应简练、准确、到位。在第二个任务中，应涵盖题目所列出的要点。本文应主要使用一般现在时态。写作过程中注意使用平时学到的短语和句型，注意行文的连贯和逻辑性。

【亮点说明】

本文是一篇任务型写作，内容符合要求，结构布局合理，文中使用高级句子。This passage mainly tells us about what mercy killing is and puts forward the doubt whether it is legal to put mercy killing into practice, different people hold different opinions. 在句中what和whether引导宾语从句；They maintain that for these patients who can never be cured, putting the mercy-killing into practice is the best way to let them get rid of the great pain.句中who引导定语从句，同时动名词做主语；they conclude that it is illegal for doctors to help the dying to end their lives.句中that引导宾语从句；另外，Some---，others---；Therefore, As far as I’m concerned, First, including，In short, in favor of等的运用为文章增色添彩。