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(2019·扬州一模)I was holding her hand when the man in the white coat came in.__1__ both sets of Xrays high, he said seriously: Her lungs were filling up with fluid(液体)．This meant that __2__ I would need to consult with specialists, and stop whatever was __3__ into my mother's lungs.
__4__， this doctor seemed to have another plan.He began speaking to me about “the quality of life”．He gave me a list of my mother's __5__ and then concluded that they added up to the __6__ of her life.I had heard their phrase “We can make her __7__” too many times.Now I calmed down, and I was more __8__ than hurt when doctors wanted to kill my mother.
My mother couldn't walk, talk or swallow after her stroke, but nursing her was not __9__.Whenever I asked her if her diseases were too hard on her, she just __10__ her head.She was conveying to me her love and understanding beyond __11__.And not just to me.
A young nurse stopped me just before the doctor appeared: “You know, I __12__ my new job to your mother: Her optimism __13__ me to learn to drive, so I would be not __14__ buses and I could come to the hospital to work.”
So, I couldn't help questioning the doctor's __15__ of quality of life.How did he arrive at the __16__ that my mother should die? Was he making a(n) __17__ calculation, that to keep a bedridden(卧床不起的) person alive was costly? He certainly did not “calculate” her endless love, the way it __18__ everyone who came in contact with her.If human life is __19__ to costbenefit analyses, all forms of caring for any reason other than selfinterest will be __20__.Can we do better?
语篇解读：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。母亲年老了，失去了多种基本的生活能力，现在又患上了严重的肺病，医生认为可以让母亲舒适地离开人世，但是作者不这样认为。作者认为生存的质量和成本都可以衡量，但是母爱的力量是不可以用任何东西去度量的。
1．A.Looking up B．Holding up
C．Setting up D．Drawing up
解析：选B 医生将两组Xray举高，是为了看得更清楚。hold up “举高，托起”，符合语境。
2．A.immediately B．occasionally
C．eventually D．surprisingly
解析：选A 由上句可知妈妈肺里充满了积液，情况危急，所以应当立刻咨询医生，故选择immediately。
3．A.stealing B．marching
C．rushing D．storming
解析：选A 我询问专家，然后阻止任何想偷偷进入我妈妈肺的东西。
4．A.Therefore B．Moreover
C．However D．Otherwise
解析：选C 因为医生have another plan，他的计划与我不一样，前后内容转折，所以选however。
5．A.vices B．strengths
C．privileges D．disabilities
解析：选D 由第三段开头可知，妈妈生病后失去了行走、说话、吞咽多种能力，故此处选择disability。
6．A.whole B．peak
C．future D．end
解析：选D 由上文可知妈妈失去多种能力最终added up to the end of her life“导致她走向生命的尽头”。
7．A.unbearable B．moveable
C．unconscious D．comfortable
解析：选D 有上文医生强调生命的质量，可知他是想让我的妈妈在生命的最后更加舒服。
8．A.relieved B．excited
C．disappointed D．ashamed
解析：选C 根据后一句可知，作者认为医生想要kill her mother，所以她的心里状态是disappointed。
9．A.tiring B．easy
C．casual D．pleasant
解析：选A 结合第三段我和妈妈的谈话和第四段护士的描述，可知作者妈妈虽然生病了，但是积极配合治疗，所以即使我妈妈中风以后失去了多种能力，但是照顾她并不累。
10．A.nodded B．hung
C．shook D．lifted
解析：选C 由下文说我的妈妈是optimistic，所以当作者问妈妈治疗过程是否太艰辛的时候，妈妈应该是shook her head(摇头)。
11．A.reach B．words
C．belief D．hope
解析：选B 她在向我传达她无法言传的爱和理解。beyond words“无法用语言来表达”。
12．A.relate B．owe
C．lose D．submit
解析：选B 护士对我说：因为你的妈妈我才开始我的新工作。owe to意思是“归功于，由于”。
13．A.forced B．encouraged
C．intended D．ordered
解析：选B 她的乐观积极鼓励我去学习驾驶。encourage sb.to do sth.“鼓励某人做某事”。
14．A.at the mercy of B．at a loss for
C．in favor of D．in charge of
解析：选A 所以我能不受公交车支配，可以来医院上班。at the mercy of“受……支配”。
15．A.framework B．instruction
C．warning D．measure
解析：选D 由上文可知我想要继续救治我的妈妈，而医生强调生命的质量，我与医生意见相悖，所以询问医生衡量生命价值的尺度是什么，所以选择measure。
16．A.precise B．rough
C．arithmetic D．economic
解析：选A 医生如何得出这个精确的结论即我妈妈应该死亡？ precise“精确的；明确的”。
17．A.conclusion B．agreement
C．consensus D．answer
解析：选D 他是在做一个计算题的答案吗？让一个卧床不起的人活着是昂贵的吗？
18．A.transmitted B．transferred
C．transformed D．transported
解析：选C 医生没有衡量过我妈妈无尽的爱，她的爱在transform(改变)她周围的人，上文的护士就是受母亲影响而改变的一个例子。
19．A.admitted B．reduced
C．sentenced D．committed
解析：选B 如果人类的生命沦为成本收益分析，那么除了个人利益，以任何理由的各种形式的关心都将被排除(即我们不会去照顾他人)。be reduced to“沦落为”。
20．A.included B．robbed
C．excluded D．confirmed
解析：选C 根据上一题，可知exclude“排除”，符合语境。
