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Answer the questions. 1. What is the matter with Tom Creedon?
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1. What is the matter with Tom Creedon?
2. Did his parents try to put an end to all his sufferings?
3. What`s the moralists’ point of view?
4. How does Tom`s father explain his attitude to the problem?
5. What does a chief cardiac technician say about his work?
6. Which consequences are today`s medics scared of?
7. Why does the author feel deep guilt about her daughter?
8. Can the author`s problem be easily solved?
9. What is your own attitude to the problem?
The text contains quite a few words whose pronunciation could pose difficulty. Transcribe the following words to avoid possible mispronunciation and miscommunication in future.
handicapped; ultimate; drudgery; anguish; horrendous; to resuscitate; manslaughter; consequences; musings; autistic; psychotic; hallucinations; decent.
Language Focus
Match the words into collocations.
| moral | a | the woodwork | |
| to resuscitate | b | of consequences | |
| ultimate | c | arrest | |
| to strife officiously | d | to cardiac arrest | |
| mentally | e | language | |
| to launch | f | of life | |
| the sentence | g | medic | |
| to be up to ears | h | cost | |
| to emerge from | i | fate | |
| the most telling | j | hallucinations | |
| descent | k | cardiac technician | |
| to profess | l | manslaughter | |
| chief | m | a patient | |
| to pack up | n | agonising | |
| to banish | o | standards | |
| horrendous | p | to preserve life | |
| emotive | q | a legal bid | |
| travesty | r | handicapped | |
| to be summoned | s | in moral dogma | |
| convicted of | t | sympathy | |
| double | u | point | |
| to be scared | v | of existence | |
| cardiac | w | equipment |
Explain the meaning of the following word combinations in English and make up your own sentences with them.
| 1. euthanasia | 18. a beeper |
| 2. a severely handicapped child | 19. to be summoned to |
| 3. to put an end to their baby's suffering | 20. brain-damaged, autistic, mentally handicapped and psychotic |
| 4. to be up to our ears in moral dogma | 21. to strive officiously to preserve life |
| 5. moral agonising | 22. to be sued |
| 6. the ultimate fate | 23. a spin-off |
| 7. to be born severely brain-damaged | 24. to prolong the suffering of a patient |
| 8. to launch a legal bid | 25. to be scared of the consequences |
| 9. to re-emerge from the woodwork | 26. to find himself convicted of manslaughter |
| 10. the most telling point | 27. selflessly |
| 11. condemn smb. for | 28. blighted |
| 12. put down | 29. to resuscitate the patient |
| 13. emotive language | 30. to banish the hallucinations |
| 14. drudgery and anguish | 31. quality of life |
| 15. horrendous | 32. travesty of life |
| 16. professing sympathy | 33. decent medic |
| 17. a chief cardiac technician | 34. to release from the sentence of existence |