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Section B Directions: Read the following passage carefully and
then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and
underlined parts.
Medical consumerism-like all sorts of consumerism, only more
menadngly is designed to be unsatisfying. (51) The prolongation of life and
the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently
self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can
make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But,
as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to comer enduring mobility,
awareness and autonomy. (52) Extending life grows medically feasible, but it
is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as
resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
What
an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of besowing
meager increments of unenjoyed life!
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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then translate
each underlined part into Chinese.
How can science be encouraged to flourish and grow How can
the results of science be used to the best purpose for the benefit of humanity
71. It was to find the answers to these question% which are not merely
academic but practical ones, that this whole inquiry into the place of science
in society was undertaken. It can be justified only in so far as it helps to
find them.
The way to answer the first question is to find
the best conditions, external and internal, which have in the past helped the
progress of science and to anticipate the changed needs of the present and
future. The answer to the second question, which depends on the first, is set
out towards the end of this chapter. Some of the external conditions for the
flourishing of science in the past have already been discussed. 72. In
essence they are provided only in
