I woke up around 6:30 this morning, on my ninth day in hospital since I caught SARS.

Glancing over at my roommate, Xiao Huang, a 27-year-old employee of a Beijing software company, I saw he was also awake.

After a light breakfast, a nurse came in and took my temperature. It was 36. 6 centigrades. We’re at Changxindian Hospital in Southwestern Beijing, a newly named SARS patient hospital.

It seems I am now recovering as my fever has gone down in recent days. When I first got the disease, I spent four days with a temperature above 39. 5 centigrade—at one point it reached 40. 1 centigrade.

At 8:30 a. m. , a nurse took a blood sample and X-ray of my chest. Then my daily treatment began with the help of the experts from Guangdong and WHO.

Before the first bottle finished, my wife rang me. I talked with her on my mobile phone. It has become a major connection with the outside world. Several friends also called me in the morning.

I am feeling great these days—no fever, no headache and no pain in the chest, which are all symptoms(症状)of SARS. My slight cough is gone since I began taking a new round of medicines yesterday. The doctor told me that I may be set free from hospital in two weeks and a half.

1. Where is the hospital the writer stays at?

A. In the south of Beijing.

B. To the east of Beijing.

C. In the southwest of Changxindian.

D. In the southwest of Beijing.

2. How long does the writer have to stay altogether in the hospital before he is sent home?

A. Seventeen days.

B. Nine days.

C. More than thirty days.

D. More than twenty-five days.

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. When he first got the disease, his temperature once reached 41.5 centigrade.

B. His medical treatment came after he had breakfast.

C. He lived in a room of the hospital alone.

D. He talked with his wife by fax.

4. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the symptoms of SARS?

A. Having a high fever.

B. Having a headache.

C. Feeling pain in the chest.

D. Feeling cold all day.