​​The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.

     Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a _________ difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their _________ for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s _________ is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates _________ his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules _________ active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his _________. 

     The women’s magazines are about one third _________ to clothes, one third to mild comment _________ sex, and the _________ third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main _________. “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into _________ of art. The food thus pictured looks _________ famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless. 

     One of the greatest and most _________ criticisms of television has been that in _________ to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still _________ true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and _________ interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the _________ paper to find this enjoyment or interest— _________ vain. 

     American individualism, on the _________ of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don’t share things in _________ ; you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a _________. For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let the _________ instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces _________ too ready to make it come to full and monstrous _________. New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, plain necessities.

A．acquisitive    B．appealing    C．argument    D．ban
E．blossom        F．common     G．courses        H．dedicated
I．derive             J．duties           K．face               L．firm
M．formulated  N．in                O．justified        P．largely
Q．like              R．local             S．on                   T．only
U．other           V．out               W．paradox        X．works