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A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness.
In March last year, the car I was driving was__
1__in a serious crash with another car on a country
road. I soon__
2__myself at the centre of a frenzy of activity, surrounded by paramedics, police, rescuers
and members of the local community. An enormous can opener was used to__
3__me out of my wrecked car and__
4__an ambulance.
Over the next eight hours, I was transported to hospital, dragged up, Xrayed and diagnosed (诊断)
with a broken neck. Knowing that I'd__
5__death by a fraction of a second sustained me throughout the
long wait in the emergency ward and__
6__me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors.
Only after I'd convinced the last friend to__
7__could I direct my energies inwards. Flitting in and out
of my line of vision during my hospital__
8__was the Red Cross lady, a gentle__
9__in white who, from
time to time, popped her head in to__
10__cups of tea. After the visitors had gone, she ventured further
into my cubicle to__
11__if I was all right.
I found myself__
12__her everything: about the shock of the__
13__, my feats for my family as a
result of my injuries-about my whole life. While I__
14__for an ambulance to transport me to another
hospital, she stood by my trolley and__
15__my hand as I offloaded all the emotion I'd stoically withheld (强忍着的) from my family. She__
16__, quiet and nonjudgmental.
Even now, the__
17__that I have her contact details provides me with great__
18__. I look forward
to a day in the nottoodistant future when my guardian angel and I can meet again, in__
19__circumstances.
In times of crisis, faith can sustain us: for me, my faith in human nature, reawakened by the__
20__of
a stranger, has helped ease my journey back to recovery.
( )1. A. caught ( )2. A. imagined ( )3. A. push ( )4. A. into ( )5. A. survived ( )6. A. advised ( )7. A. assist ( )8. A. stay ( )9. A. patient ( )10. A. make ( )11. A. claim ( )12. A. presenting ( )13. A. accident ( )14. A. hoped ( )15. A. held ( )16. A. puzzled ( )17. A. knowledge ( )18. A. progress ( )19. A. unforeseen ( )20. A. sympathy |
B. trapped B. found B. force B. onto B. met B. forced B. leave B. visit B. performa B. offer B. consult B. showing B. incident B. prepared B. lent B. doubted B. belief B. pride B. happier B. strength |
C. lost C. devoted C. get C. off C. beat C. ordered C. participate C. operation C. presence C. drink C. conclude C. giving C. event C. waited C. moved C. stopped C. power C. surprise C. strange C. kindness |
D. involved D. dreamed D. turn D. on D. feared D. helped D. come D. appointment D. physician D. take D. check D. telling D. occasion D. watched D. waved D. listened D. privilege D. comfort D. extreme D. donation |