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It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months

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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 final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, 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 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 Ill 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 U.S. 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 Ill 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. [br] When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ______.
选项 A、face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia
B、experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient
C、have an intense fear of terrible suffering
D、undergo a cooling off period of seven days
答案 A
解析 从文章第2段的后半部分可知，对于居住在达尔文的现年54岁的肺癌患者Nickson来说，这个法案意味着他可以平静地生活下去而无须惧怕因呼吸困难而死去。“从精神上说，我并不怕死，害怕的是怎样死。”他说，“我曾看见医院里的病人死前用手抓他们的供氧面罩，与氧气抗争。”据此可知，Lloyd Nickson在去世时，将不会像其他病人那样有恐惧感和折磨感。A项与文章的意思相符，因此A项为正确答案。
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