A young man was about to go to the office when he received a phone call from a nurse who told him his father was injured and in hospital. So he ______ to the hospital by taxi. He had gone into the hospital when he found he ______ his cell phone in the taxi. What’s ______, he had forgotten to ask the nurse which ward his father was in. He had to run hurriedly around in the hospital ______ his father. Seeing a nurse, he asked her with ______, “My father is in hospital. He...”
The nurse ______, “Oh, my God. It’s you. Come with me!” She ______ the young man to the bed side of an elderly man. “Your son is here,” she ______ to the elderly patient several times. The old man was too weak to stay awake, only to look ______ at the young man standing beside him.
Throughout the night the young man ______ to the old man, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. The dying old man said nothing. The nurse ______ the young rest for a while but he ______ her advice.
Sunrise ______, the old man peacefully died. The young man placed the lifeless hand on the bed and informed the nurse. After the nurse did what was ______, she just found the young man had left, leaving a letter ______ “Thank you, lady! My father is fine. I knew right away the old man was not my father. But I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. So, I stayed.”
1.A.jogged | B.rushed | C.jumped | D.slid |
2.A.left | B.forgot | C.remained | D.removed |
3.A.more | B.better | C.worse | D.finer |
4.A.in favor of | B.in search of | C.in fear of | D.in memory of |
5.A.despair | B.joy | C.relief | D.anxiety |
6.A.called in | B.turned in | C.took in | D.broke in |
7.A.directed | B.connected | C.appointed | D.joined |
8.A.roared | B.shouted | C.whispered | D.whistled |
9.A.faintly | B.positively | C.passively | D.generously |
10.A.turned | B.tended | C.led | D.adapted |
11.A.confirmed | B.announced | C.recommended | D.ensured |
12.A.received | B.reserved | C.revised | D.rejected |
13.A.advancing | B.approaching | C.amounting | D.assuming |
14.A.obvious | B.impressive | C.impossible | D.necessary |
15.A.reading | B.writing | C.drawing | D.demanding |