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My daughter had signed an organ donor card, but my husband and I did not know it. We learned
about our daughter's decision after she was __
1__ injured in a car crash. Doctors __
2__ on her for 20
hours and couldn't save her life. Finally, the doctor in charge told us our daughter was brain dead. Did
we want to __
3__ organ donation?
I was already in shock. The __
4__ of donating my daughter's organs was another shock and I was
__
5__ about my 15yearold twin grandsons. They had just lost their mother and we had lost our daughter. The doctor __
6__ the organ harvesting procedure, but I did not want to hear it.
We __
7__ to organ donation and signed the legal papers. The twins said their last goodbye to their
mother and the images of their sorrow are __
8__ in my mind until now. Two days later we received a
__
9__ from the organ donor organization. Our daughter's organs had __
10__ three lives. Thanks to her
generosity, two strangers now see.
Weeks later, we received a certificate from the organ donor organization in __
11__ of our daughter.
The twins received individual certificates and hardly glanced at them. I fully understood their __
12__.
They did not want any certificates, they wanted their mother __
13__ and we wanted our daughter.
The sadness associated with organ donation is a __
14__ thing. First, it makes the ending of death all
too clear. Secondly, I find a measure of comfort in the __
15__ that my daughter was an organ donor.
My daughter cared about others and this caring continued after her death.
Organ donation did not give me a sense of control, but it did give me a sense of giving. Nothing is
more caring than signing an organ donor card. I also know my family will find comfort in my daughter's
generosity.
( )1.A. partly ( )2.A. insisted ( )3.A. go on with ( )4.A. knock ( )5.A. certain ( )6.A. described ( )7.A. stuck ( )8.A. cloudy ( )9.A. call ( )10.A. created ( )11.A. danger ( )12.A. reaction ( )13.A. away ( )14.A. clumsy ( )15.A. place |
B. slightly B. turned B. compare with B. difficulty B. pleased B. learned B. agreed B. unknown B. passport B. lost B. recognition B. trick B. off B. strange B. reason |
C. severely C. waited C. mix with C. response C. worried C. praised C. referred C. dark C. handbag C. saved C. search C. decision C. back C. popular C. cause |
D. hardly D. operated D. deal with D. thought D. excited D. regretted D. objected D. clear D. gift D. taken D. case D. suggestion D. in D. different D. fact |