Question

Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs; the need to protect patients from brutal news, to uphold a promise of secrecy or to advance the public interest.
What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should doctors reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?
Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patients’ own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.
Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them of risks destroys their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide.
But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians, a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness; help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.
There is an urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to know the professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
Title:  1  Or Not

Different  2	·Most doctors are in  3  of lying for the patients’ own sake.
	·A great majority of patients  4  on being told the truth.
Reasons for 5  lying to patients	·Informing patients of the truth about their condition destroys their hope,  6  to recovering more slowly, or deteriorating faster, perhaps even  7  themselves.
Reasons  8   lying to patients	·The truthful information helps patients to  9  their illness, help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery. ·Most patients feel  10  when they learn that they have been misled.

Answer 1

【小題1】Lie
【小題1】attitudes/ opinions/ viewpoints
【小題1】favour
【小題1】insist
【小題1】supporting
【小題1】leading
【小題1】killing
【小題1】against
【小題1】handle/ approach 
【小題1】cheated

解析【小題1】Lie 根據(jù)第一段第一句話中 “Should doctors ever lie to ...?”可知填 lie
【小題1】attitudes/ opinions/ viewpoints 本題為總結(jié)詞，由右邊一欄中的兩種觀點(diǎn)可知講的是雙方的看法
【小題1】favour 根據(jù)第三段中的“they see important reasons to lie for the patients’ own sake”可知醫(yī)生贊同說謊，所以用短語 “in favour of”表示贊同，支持
【小題1】insist 根據(jù)最后一段中的“a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth”可知病人想知道事實(shí)，所以這里填 insist，構(gòu)成短語 insist on
【小題1】supporting 本題為總結(jié)詞，根據(jù)右邊一欄中的觀點(diǎn)，認(rèn)為隱瞞病情對病人有好處，所以填 supporting，表支持，for為介詞，所以用Ving形式
【小題1】leading 根據(jù)第四段中的“so that they may recover more slowly”可知只是導(dǎo)致的結(jié)果，故使用相同意義的短語 “l(fā)ead to”，根據(jù)下文deteriorating，用Ving形式
【小題1】killing 根據(jù)第四段中的“perhaps even commit suicide”可知，commit suicide為自殺，等于 kill oneself，再根據(jù)上文的deteriorating，故用Ving形式
【小題1】against 此題和第五題為相反意思，所以填 against，表 反對
【小題1】handle/ approach 根據(jù)最后一段中的“helps patients cope with illness”可知這里需要填的詞可以表示 “cope with”的含義，所以填 “handle、approach”
【小題1】cheated 本題為原題再現(xiàn)，最后一段第三行。