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A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witn

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问题    A 80-year old man from Cincinnati in America is making legal history by suing doctors who saved his wife. Edward Winter has witnessed his wife’ s death from a  【21】______  attack. The doctors had tried to restart her heart with an electric  【22】______  with remarkable success, but leaving her brain  【23】______  . Her death was a long and  【24】______  experience, which he did not want to go through himself. After she died he asked his doctor  【25】______  to save him in  【26】______  circumstances, but instead to let him die  【27】______  .
   While out visiting in May 1988, Mr. Winter  【28】______  the heart attack, which he was treated, and was rushed to St Franc’ is hospital in Cincinnati. The doctor who  【29】______  him wrote down on his chart that he was not to be  【30】______  but the duty nurse was not informed of Mr. Winter’s  【31】______  . The nurse took the usual  【32】______  action and tried to revive him with an electric shock. His life was saved  【33】______  the treatment was not completely successful. Since then he  【34】______  stay in a nursing home, partially  【35】______  and barely able to speak without weeping. Though there is  【36】______  hope of improvement in his condition, doctors say he could  【37】______  many more years. The hospital  【38】______  his story, arguing that the injury suffered by Mr. Winter is the  【39】______  of an act of God and they    【40】______  him over $ 60,000 for saving his life.
【39】
选项 A、subsequence
B、influence
C、punishment
D、consequence
答案D
解析 联系上下文可以推断出，这句话是医院方面在试图辩解造成Mr. Winter脑损伤这一后果另有原因，此外文章接近尾声，是在一件事情发生后对此事的分析说明，因此答案为D项consequence，意思是“结果、后果”。
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