Question

   Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurable patients. 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 much time to  36 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.

    “Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t  37 , as I knew, but all the time  38  his foot against mine.

    My  39  raced back more than thirty years to the  40  days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The  41  was an air-raid shelter, in which I and hundreds of other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

     42  wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers(防空洞居住者) got to  43  each other very well. Frank West  44  me because he wasn’t  45  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had  46  of a mind than a baby has. His “ 47 ” consisted of rough sounds―sounds of pleasure or anger and  48  more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank  49  on her entirely. He needed all the  50  of a baby.

    One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She  51  nearly everything she owned.

    When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the  52  ones. So before we  53  that morning, I stood beside Frank and  54  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  55  to me was always the same.

 

36. A. work	B. stay	C. live	D. expect
37. A. answer	B. say	C. smile	D. laugh
38. A. covering	B. moving	C. fighting	D. pressing
39. A. minds	B. memories	C. thoughts	D. brains
40. A. better	B. dark	C. younger	D. old
41. A. cave	B. place	C. sight	D. scene
42. A. Discussing	B. Solving	C. Sharing	D. Suffering
43. A. learn from	B. talk to	C. help	D. know
44. A. needed	B. recognized	C. interested	D. encouraged
45. A. normal	B. common	C. usual	D. quick
46. A. more	B. much	C. fewer	D. less
47. A. lecture	B. speech	C. sentence	D. language
48. A. not	B. no	C. something	D. nothing
49. A. fed	B. kept	C. lived	D. depended
50. A. attention	B. control	C. management	D. treat
51. A. lost	B. needed	C. destroyed	D. left
52. A. troublesome	B. unlucky	C. angry	D. unpopular
53. A. separated	B. went	C. reunited	D. returned
54. A. pushed	B. tried	C. showed	D. measured
55. A. nodding	B. greeting	C. meeting	D. acting

Answer 1

36-40 CADBB  41-45 DCDCA     46-50 DBBDA    51-55 ABADB