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When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital
in my town. Most of the
1 I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any
2 ,and nobody
seemed to care about his
3 .
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,
_4_anything that needed to be done. He
became a close friend of mine,
5 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr
Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was
6 .I didn't have
the
7 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might
8 me he had died.
Several
9 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar
face. When I
10 who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was
11 ! I built up the courage to ask him if
his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)
12 look on his face, he replied yes. I
13 how I knew him, and
that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me
the warmest hug I had ever
14 .
He began to tell me how,
15 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could
16
me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie
17 believed that it was my voice and
18 that had kept
him alive.
Although I haven't
19 him since, he fills my heart with
20 every day. I know that I made a difference
between his life and his death.
( )1. A. money ( )2. A. visitors ( )3. A. interest ( )4. A. talking about ( )5. A. so ( )6. A. dead ( )7. A. right ( )8. A. cheat ( )9. A. days ( )10. A. realized ( )11. A. great ( )12. A. happy ( )13. A. apologized ( )14. A. dreamed ( )15. A. because ( )16. A. notice ( )17. A. hardly ( )18. A. humour ( )19. A. forgotten ( )20. A. joy |
B. energy B. relatives B. requirement B. looking for B. even though B. mad B. chance B. tell B. weeks B. wondered B. alive B. uncertain B. remembered B. shown B. if B. feel B. rightly B. worry B. called B. regret |
C. time C. patients C. condition C. pointing out C. yet C. go C. courage C. remind C. months C. heard C. successful C. nervous C. explained C. wanted C. unless C. imagine C. firmly C. touch C. missed C. respect |
D. effort D. problems D. thought D. helping out D. as if D. excited D. time D. warn D. years D. asked D. lucky D. proud D. told D. received D. as D. appreciate D. wrongly D. treatment D. seen D. honour |