According to the passage, who has / have the legal responsibility to decide on euthanasia?

A．The national or state government.

B．The patient's relatives.

C．Physicians in charge of the patient.

D．The answer varies from country to country.

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细节题。题干：根据短文，谁有法律赋予的权利来决定安乐死?利用题干关键词可以定位到第三段第二旬：who decides whether a patient is to die?紧接着论述了这一问题在美国的情况，指出在美国，这个问题在法律上还没解决。第四段介绍了欧洲的情况：In parts ofEurope．the decision—making process has become very flexible．(在欧洲的部分国家，这一决定的程序则非常灵活。)第五段又介绍了在其他一些国家的情况。由此可推断出对这个问题，不同的国家有不同的解决办法，故选D。

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Population and Our Planet

A very important world problem is the increasing number of people who actually inhabit this planet. The limited amount of land and land resources will soon be unable to support the huge population if it continues to grow at its present rate.
So why is this huge increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and practice of what is becoming known as "Death Control". You have no doubt heard of the term "Birth Control". "Death Control" is something rather different. It recognizes the work of the doctors and scientists who now keep alive people who, not very long ago, would have died of a variety of then incurable diseases. Through a wide variety of technological innovations that include farming methods and the control of deadly diseases, we have found ways to reduce the rate at which we die. However, this success is the very cause of the greatest threat to mankind.
If we examine the amount of land available for this ever-increasing population, we begin to see the problem. If everyone on the planet had an equal share of land, we would each have about:50,000 square meters. This figure seems to be quite encouraging until we examine the amount of usable land we actually have. More than three-fifths of the world's land cannot produce food.
Obviously, with so little land to support us, we should be taking great care not to reduce it further. But we are not! Instead, we are consuming its "capital" -- its nonrenewable fossil fuels and other mineral deposits that took millions of years to form but which are now being destroyed in decades. We are also doing the same with other vital resources not usually thought of as being nonrenewable such as fertile soils, groundwater and the millions of other species that share the earth with us.
It is a very common belief that the problems of the population explosion are caused mainly by poor people living in poor countries who do not know enough to limit their reproduction. This is not true. The actual number of people in an area is not as important as the effect they have on nature. Developing countries do have an effec.t on their environment, but it is the populations of richer countries that have a far greater impact on the earth as a whole.
According to the article, what contributes to the population increase?

A．Birth explosion.

B．Birth Control.

C．Technological innovations.

D．Death Control.

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