Honesty seems never to be rather _________ today．


  1. A.
    of a discount
  2. B.
    in a discount
  3. C.
    at a discount
  4. D.
    with a discount
C
at a discount是固定短語，意為“打折扣，低于正常價(jià)格”。
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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.
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Title:  1  Or Not

Different  2
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Reasons for 5  lying to patients
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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.
 

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