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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

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