A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

    “Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

    My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

      7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

    One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

    When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

1.A.work         B.stay   C.live   D.expect

2.A.answer       B.speak C.smile        D.laugh

3.A.covering     B.moving     C.fighting    D.pressing

4.A.minds        B.memories  C.thoughts   D.brains

5.A.better         B.dark  C.younger          D.old

6.A.cave          B.place C.sight         D.scene

7.A.Discussing        B.Solving    C.Sharing           D.Suffering

8.A.learn from        B.talk to      C.help         D.know

9.A.needed      B.recognized       C.interested        D.encouraged

10.A.normal           B.common   C.unusual           D.quick

11.A.more       B.worse       C.fewer       D.less

12.A.word       B.speech      C.sentence          D.language

13.A.not          B.no     C.something       D.nothing

14.A.fed          B.kept  C.lived        D.depended

15.A.attention         B.control     C.treatment        D.management

16.A.lost         B.needed      C.destroyed        D.left

17.A.troublesome     B.unlucky    C.angry       D.unpopular

18.A.separated        B.went  C.reunited          D.returned

19.A.pushed     B.tried  C.showed           D.measured

20.A.nodding          B.greeting    C.meeting          D.acting

Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I received a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 am and only one room gave off light. Many   would just shout once or twice and then drive away. But I thought this passenger might need my . So I walked to the door and  “Just a minute,” answered a weak, elderly   After a long time, the door opened. A small old womanbefore me, carrying a small suitcase. I took her suitcase and we walked slowly to the car. She kept thanking me for my kindness.

 When we got in the car, she gave me a (n)   and then asked to drive through the city center. But it wasn’t the  way. “Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to Westhill Old People’s Home. The doctor says I don’t have much time   .

We drove through the city center. She   me the building where she once worked. We drove past the church where she got married. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a building or at a corner and   .sit looking at the darkness, saying nothing. When the sun began to   , we drove in silence to the old people’s home. When we arrived, almost   a second thought, I gave her a big hug (拥抱). “You gave an old woman a little moment of   . Thank you!” she said tearfully.

  I was totally lost in thought for the rest of the day. I can’t imagine what would happen if I  to do what I did? We always think that there are no great moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may consider a  one.

A. drivers B. workers C. guests D. passengers

A. advice B. help C. suggestion D. attention

A. stopped B. breathed C. worked D. knocked

A. sound B. noise C. voice D. shout

A. turned up B. set up C. got up D. put up

A. order B. address C. idea D. reason

A. busiest B. longest C. narrowest D. shortest

A. left B. saved C. lost D. spared

A. gave B. passed C. showed D. made

A. could B. would C. should D. must

A. move B. set C. rise D. burn

A. after B. with C. except D. without

A. patience B. courage C. joy D. sadness

A. refused B. offered C. planned D. regretted

A. difficult B. small C. strange D. interesting

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