Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a ( 1 ) difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their ( 2 ) for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s ( 3 ) is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates ( 4 ) his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules ( 5 ) active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his ( 6 ).The women’s magazines are about one third ( 7 ) to clothes, one third to mild comment ( 8 ) sex, and the ( 9 ) third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main ( 10 ) . “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into ( 11 ) of art. The food thus pictured looks ( 12 ) famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless.One of the greatest and most ( 13 ) criticisms of television has been that in ( 14 ) to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still ( 15 ) true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and ( 16 ) interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the ( 17 ) paper to find this enjoyment or interest—( 18 ) vain.American individualism, on the ( 19 ) of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don’t share things in ( 20 ); you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a ( 21 ). For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let the ( 22 ) instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces ( 23 ) too ready to make it come to full and monstrous ( 24 ). New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, plain necessities.

A.acquisitive B.appealing C.argument D.ban

E.blossom F.common G.courses H.dedicated

I.derive J.duties K.face L.firm M.formulated

N.in O.justified P.largely Q.likeR.local S.on

T.only U.other V.out W.paradox X.works