The right to die
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary(议会的) debates, Australia’s northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably sick patients 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 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 NT Rights of the Terminally III 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（通过）.
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(安乐死). 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(诊断) 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 III 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.
【小题1】This passage is mainly about ________.

短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加﹑删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词的下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计。
I still remember how nervously I was on my first day in the new school two years ago，【小题1】
when I found difficult to follow my teacher in the first English class. The teacher spoke 【小题2】
English throughout the class, that was totally different from lessons I had taken before.
【小题3】【小题4】
In the morning class the next day, the English teacher came to me while I am reading the 【小题5】
text aloud.After listen to me for a while,                                 【小题6】
she gave me a big smile and said he liked my voice                       【小题7】
very much．The smile shone on the whole day and the following days．A week later, I was
volunteered to take charge of English study in my class．Thank to the comforting smile in my
【小题8】
first morning class, I began to confident．                              【小题9】

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。
【小题1】He asked his sister___________________________ (她将什么时候回家). （come）
【小题2】She asked me ____________________________ (我是否看见了他) the day before. （see）
【小题3】The museum ____________________ (我参观过的) years ago is now a school.
【小题4】Do you still remember the day ______________________(我们见面) in the park?  (meet)
【小题5】Only if you study hard ____________________ (你才能通过这次考试). (pass)
【小题6】It was John _____________________ (把这些钥匙遗失在这) yesterday. (leave)
【小题7】_____________________ (一旦你理解) the meaning of the poem, you will enjoy it very much. (once)
【小题8】It was the third time that _______________ (他来到) to this mountain village to see the children. (come)
【小题9】Although he is in poor health, ________________ (但是他依然努力工作).  (work)
【小题10】No one knows ___________________ (中国会起什么作用) in the international business in the future. (part)

你校正在进行“英语论坛周”活动，请以“To Be a Popular Student”为题，就以下三方面提出要成为一名受欢迎学生应具备的素质，用英语写一篇120词左右的短文参加该主题的讨论。

1. 对待集体；   2. 对待他人；   3. 对待自己。

注意：短文的开头已给出（不计词数）。

To Be a Popular Student

To Be a Popular Student, we should be equipped with the following qualities.               

Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous（宽厚的）conditions? You’ll ruin our company if you go on like that.”
“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once, “Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
【小题1】 Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr. Briggs?______.