[简答题]Section B
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts.

Medical consumerism-like all sorts of consumerism, only more menadngly is designed to be unsatisfying. (51) The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to comer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. (52) Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of besowing meager increments of unenjoyed life!

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