Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936. On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia: (1) administering a lethal drug to a (2) ill patient who has asked to be relieved (3) suffering. Twenty times a day, life prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn (4) there is no hope that it can (5) an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books, punishable (6) 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who (7) it out will not be prosecuted.
Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing", is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. (8) more and more doctors and nurses in Britain, Germany, Holland and elsewhere readily (9) to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form of withholding or withdrawing (10) The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately (11) into a sometimes fierce public debate, (12) both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those (13) to the practice see themselves (14) sacred principles of respect for life, (15) those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years (16) the defensive, the advocates now seem to be (17) ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British (18) favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of (19) to a poll taken late last year in France said they would like the law changed to (20) mercy killings. Obviously, pressure groups favoring euthanasia and "assisted suicide" have grown steadily in Europe over the years.
13（）
A.rejected
B.objected
C.responded
D.opposed
参考答案：D
解析：
[注释] 词义结构搭配。be opposed to反对。例如：The people of Latin America were opposed to the war. 在本题中opposed作过去分词修饰前面的指示代词those。可见，无论从词义或从结构上看，空格内填入opposed后可使上下文前后贯通。故应选[D]opposed。reject拒绝，摒弃；该动词后不接介词to，故从结构上排除填rejected。object to反对。可见，object后可接介词to，但objected是过去分词，不及物动词不能用过去分词形式作定语修饰名词。如把objected改为objecting就对了。respond to对…做出反应。首先，respond是不及物动词，不能用过去分词形式作定语。其次，词义不妥。故不能入选。