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第 24 題
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To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
24. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
- A discussions of a cancer patient’s mental care
- B a doctor’s duty to help patients believe in hope
- C how end-of-life patients’ lives are enhanced or weakened
- D the power provided by those in support of the patients
思路引導 VIP
請你試著將選項中的關鍵動作（例如：討論、提供力量、責任）標記出來，然後回到文中搜尋：作者是在『定義希望的意義』，還是在『說明具體的醫療程序』？當你發現某個選項描述的是一個具體的執行細節，但在文中卻只找到抽象的詞彙解釋時，這個選項可能代表什麼？
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