Supplementary Reading (Will It Become a Duty to Die?)

Writing ( planning your daily activities)

    Perhaps you are an average student with average intelligence. You do well enough in school, but you probably think you will never be a top student. This is no necessarily the case, however. You can receive better grades if you want to. Yes, even students of average intelligence can be to top students without additional work. Here’s how:

1. Plan your time carefully. Make a list of your weekly tasks. Then make a schedule or chart of your time. Fill in committed time such as eating, sleeping, meeting, classes, etc. then decide on good, regular times for studying. Be sure to set aside enough time to complete your normal work assignments. Of course, studying should not occupy all of the free time on the schedule. It’s important to set aside time for relaxation, hobbies, and entertainment as well. This weekly schedule may not solve all of your problems, but it will make you more aware of how you spend your time. Furthermore, it will enable you to plan your activities so that you have adequate time for both work and play.
2. Find a good place to study. Choose one place for your study area. It may be a desk or a chair at home or in the school library, but it should be comfortable, and it should not have distractions. When you begin to work, you should be able to concentrate on the subject.
3. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t worry excessively about a single a test. Tests provide grades, but they also let you know what you need to spend more time studying, and they help make your new knowledge permanent.

There are other techniques that might help you with your studying. Only a few have been mentioned here. You will probably discover many others after you have tried these. Talk with your classmates about their study techniques. Share with them some of the techniques you have found to be helpful. Improving your study habits will improve your grades.

    

Supplementary Reading (Beyond the Right to Die, Will It Become a Duty to Die?)

New words

• beyond         surpassing, exceeding
• legislate        to make or pass laws approving or disapproving certain action
• prolong     lengthen or extend
• erode wear away, weaken, disintegrate
• terminal     of the point at the end.
• eliminate    remove, get rid of
• long-sought long searched for or look for
• drastically severely, harshly, dramatically
• soaring        elevated or rapidly rising above usual and ordinary levels
• prognosticator     person who can foretell or predict
• sanctity    sacredness    ;    holiness
• endorsement     written approval or support;     sanction     endure
• hospice    an institution devoted to the care of the terminally ill
• statue        law
• convalescence        gradual recovery period after illness
• empower        to give power or authority
• procedure        an action that may serve as an example or reason for a later action
• triage            a system of assigning priorities of medical treatment based on urgency, chance for survival, etc. and used on battlefields and in hospital emergency wards
• urgency        emergency         need for action; necessity; importance
• colon         part of the large intestine extending to the return
• benevolent     charitable, suggestive of good will
• condemn         accuse of     denounce        declare incurable
• stricken        afflicted ( by wounds or illness)
• guilt-ridden        dominated by guilty in thoughts
• prematurely         before the proper or usual time
• protracted         lengthened; prolonged
• retrospect         view of past
• debilitating     weakening     enfeebling
• deteriorate            worsen     lower in quality
• codify             classify     systematize
• extinguish        put an end to ; destroy
• caring              affectionate , helpful and sympathetic
• rapport            close or sympathetic relationship

phases

• in retrospect :     looking at past events
• let go of somebody:     release somebody’s hold of
• in advance to : before

sentences

• Dr. Silk examines the problems of prolonged the suffering, extended medicine treatment, financial drain, and decision making.
• It is morally terrifying to me to consider legislating “ the right to die.”
• No one has right or desire to erode humanitarian considerations. Medical economists have calculated that 60% or more of an individual’s entire lifetime medical expense is generated in the last year of life. It follows, then, that if we could predict that terminal period ( and eliminate or ignore it) we could find the long-sought magic that would immediately and drastically cut soaring medical expense.
• Since it is not given to the best of our medicine prognosticators to predict with certainly and finality just when that last 12 months will begin or end, and because our Judeo-Christan ethic.
• Committees of physicians are already legally required to decide what medicine and surgical procedures should be done. Whether they may be done in a hospital, and how long the hospital convalescence may take.
• Prematurely! We’re all going to die----some gracefully and without suffering, some after protracted, painful and debilitating treatment.
• But who among us can sufficiently codify the stages of the quality of life to make the decision in advance to extinguish it ?
• First a caring physician established rapport with the patient and his family.
• Together they make a compassionate, unwritten decision to stop trying.
• Lawyer and legislators have no part in life’s final drama.

phases

• ambiguous        amateur        ally     sharp
• an ambiguous person    
• amateur He an allied country with American.
• on account of this fact on the basis of
• On account of     on the basis of
• an honorable title.
• Sufficient adequate
• Tense
• Misery
• vague is equal to ambiguous
• transition
• anarchy 无政府 abide
• accelerate
• He alleges that without the support from the city government the program
• on all accounts 所有条件
• adapt
• allege
• allocate
• amount
• amendments
• make amendments to do something
• analogy antique
• make the assessment on the house
• asylum 避难所
• assess    assure     assert
• appoint
• at the turn of the century 在世纪之交 at 表示准确的地点
• Melody 悦的音调
• Approach
• Originals
• Resource
• Straight sections
• Profitable
• Scenic area 风景区
• Connect urban center
• With heavy traffic
• curve
• He is networking. 他去公关了
• Origins
• Rest area restroom     roadhouse hotel
• John looked very much embarrassed when he was caught cheating in the exam on the spot.
• we can not use it in our common sense
• respectively
• The relatively road two-lane roads双道路
• Roads curving through the road
• Go up steep slope path along with cliff
• Places lying in deep valleys.
• get a fresh, clean view of the world
• He had no bad liking 没有坏的喜好 reply readily
• He is very inhibit
• communal marriage communal train
• Witness
• Undergo
• There is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior .
• While 强调一个过程
• Passion have a passion for the discussion of their weather
• Violate            
• Be interest to somebody
• Oversea
• In the course of a single day 一整天
• Conduct     引导
• At a loss
• Provoke
• Stimulate
• Constitute
• Furnish
• HI have got Thomson’s travelers’ …..How would you like them?要换多少
• Inherit
• dispersed
• scatted
• interpret
• take to adopt take after 像 学样 take in 吸收
• charter a flight hire a flight 租航班
• underline     minimize maximize
• arose activate amuse         amuse
• present
• appraisal evaluation
• help oneself to is equal to stole
• scheme blueprint
• personality temper character
• mutual        massive mature marvellons
• accordingly we put up for the night 留宿
• breakthrough breakdown breakaway break-up
• discern see clearly
• preferable favorable give a very favorable report
• lave
• fraction 部分
• fragment 碎片
• ingredients 成分 因素
• factors 因素
• take on take up 开始从事take over take off
• temperature
• infrared
• adopted 被采用
• adapted 适应
• come up to 达到
• come up with 提出
• precisely 正好
• extraordinarily 格外地
• invariably
• become visible to the eyes
• at night
• an infrared scanner
• be transformed into
• pesticide
• otherwise
• assisted
• resisted
• persisted on
• insist on doing
• tong-total hacker
• get back
• on 75 percent of agricultural
• desolate
• remove
• fail to
• agent agenda agency
• audi audit audience audio-visual
• Ced,cess, ceed 表示过程 proceed exceed process succession successive
• Centr centre central centralize
• Dic, dict dictate听写 dictation dictionary contradiction 自相矛盾 predict
• Duct 指行动 conduct educate introduce produce reduce
• Fac , fact 用手去做factory manufactory manufacturer manual
• Fin final finish fine
• Gen , gener genius , generate general
• Gen ,,genre genius, generate general
• Grad 表示等级 grade gradual graduate undergraduate
• Ject inject injection reject project subject 从属什么之下,它们都表示投射
• Pos  把什么组合在一起 posit compose deposit deposal expose suppose propose
• Sist 表示在某个位置 assist consist exist insist resist persist
• Spect 看或视 expect inspect respect prospect
• St, stat 表示位置 state station stay distance constant
• Tain 表示保持什么 contain obtain retain
• Ven, vent 表示来… 源于法语 event invent prevent
• Vis 看 advise evidence evident revise supervise vision invisible visionary