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Carmen's mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life
was in constant __
1__.
Both the mother and the daughter knew that the chances were very __
2__: finding a donor heart
that __
3__ Maria's blood type could take years. __
4__, Carmen was determined to save her mother.
She kept __
5__ hospitals all over the country.
Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble __
6__ from one end of the room to the other.
Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a __
7__ of the hospital, crying.
"Are you okay?" a man asked.
Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her __
8__. This middleaged man was named Frank, whose
wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain
disease and wouldn't __
9__ it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank's mind. He knew
Cheryl had always wanted to __
10__ something from herself. Could her __
11__ go to Carmen's mother?
After reviewing the data, doctors __
12__ Fank that his wife's heart was by some miracle a perfect
__
13__ for Carmen's mother. They were able to __
14__ the transplant.
That cold night, when Cheryl was __
15__ dead, Frank came to knock at Maria's door. She was
__
16__ for Frank's family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met
Frank before, they both felt a strange __
17__ as they hugged and cried. On New Year's Eve, Carmen
attended Cheryl's __
18__ with Frank's family, who were singing their favorite song"My heart will go on".
One day later, on New Year's Day, Maria __
19__ with Cheryl's heart. Yes, Cheryl's loving heart would
go on, for it was __
20__ in another loving mother's chest.
( )1. A. change ( )2. A. small ( )3. A. matched ( )4. A. Certainly ( )5. A. finding ( )6. A. rolling ( )7. A. corner ( )8. A. mother ( )9. A. put ( )10. A.save ( )11. A.heart ( )12. A.informed ( )13. A.copy ( )14. A.give up ( )15. A.noticed ( )16. A.praying ( )17. A.belief ( )18. A.funeral ( )19. A.passed away ( )20. A.active |
B. danger B. distant B. replaced B. Otherwise B. phoning B. running B. bed B. story B. support B. recycle B. brain B. warned B. fit B. carry out B. predicted B. begging B. love B. operation B. woke up B. alive |
C. disorder C. hard C. controlled C. However C. touring C. walking C. man C. error C. pass C. donate C. husband C. celebrated C. variation C. search after C. found C. decorating C. bond C. performance C. left behind C. necessary |
D. pain D. precious D. cooperated D. So D. interrupting D. jumping D. nurse D. dream D. make D. separate D. spirit D. reminded D. baby D. put off D. declared D. singing D. relief D. anniversary D. dressed up D. changeable |