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A hospital is needed by every living person at the time of birth, death, physical injuries, or sickness. It is always a
1 place where family members can gather around the person who needs the
2 of well
trained medical doctors and nurses.
As Nicole Hagen and Ricky Beebe were born into the Hagen family in 1998, the parents were both in
the delivery (分娩) room. This is a
3 as
the tradition has been for the father to be in the next room.
4 hospitals have a birthing room where there is an extra sofa and a chair for the father to either sit or
even to sleep on next to his wife. Many
5 are taken of the new baby within a few minutes of his or her
6 . Even a video can be made with the proud father taking pictures of the doctor, nurses, mother, and
baby. A nurse may take a
7 picture of the father, mother, and baby. Young children will not see the
baby
8 the doctor and nurses allow them into the room many hours later.
At the death of Grandma Hagen, the adult children
9 at her bedside. As she was dying, her children
talked to her, read the Bible, and even sang some of her
10 songs. The nurses would check on her very often and the doctor came as his time
11 . She was given pain pills
12 her last few hours would be as
13 as possible. When she died the family cried together in sorrow for the loss of their mother. Grandpa Hagen had died fourteen years
14 . Gr
andma Hagen was 82 when she died.Doctors operate on broken bones
15 by accidents in factories or car accidents. Children sometimes fall down stairs where an arm
is
17 . Athletes get hurt in
16 of football, basketball, baseball, track, and soccer. Most injuries are
repaired very successfully
18 the great skill of the doctor.
Illness from disease, alcohol, or smoking often requires a person to stay a long period in the hospital.
People like to recover
19 . However, if medical care is needed, a hospital may be the
20 home for
some patients.
( )1. A. beautiful
( )2. A. operation
( )3. A. development
( )4. A. Modern
( )5. A. things
( )6. A. chance
( )7. A. valuable
( )8. A. until
( )9. A. gathered
( )10. A. old
( )11. A. went by
( )12. A. so that
( )13. A. happy
( )14. A. ago
( )15. A. made
( )16. A. broken
( )17. A. cases
( )18. A. in the form of
( )19. A. at once
( )20. A. usual