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crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came
to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son.
From a worn letter located in his pocket, an emergency room nurse learned that his son was a
marine stationed in North Carolina. Apparently there were no other relatives.
Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to
rush to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp.
Because time was short--- the patient was dying--- the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an
army vehicle. They found the young man walking through some marshes (沼泽) in a military exercise.
He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the only plane that might enable him to reach his dying
father.
It was dusk when the young marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital. A
nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
"Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the
patient's eyes opened. The medicine he had been given for the pain from his heart attack made his eyes
weak and he could only see the shadow of the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside
the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's
weak ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair, so the marine
could sit by the bed.
Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young marine sat there in the dimly lit ward
(病房), holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength. Occasionally, the nurse
urged the marine to rest for a while. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and
the night noises of the hospital --- the banging of an oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff exchanging
greetings, the cries and breathing of other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night.
It was nearly dawn when the patient died. The marine placed the lifeless hand he had been holding
on the bed, and went to inform the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he smoked a cigarette, his
first since he got to the hospital.
Finally, she returned to the nurse's station, where he was waiting. She started to offer words of
sympathy, but the marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
"He was your father," she answered, shocked.
"No, he wasn't," the marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
"Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked.
"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just
wasn't here. When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I guessed he really
needed me. So I stayed. "
With that, the marine turned and left the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North
Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to
Brooklyn for his father's funeral. It turned out there had been two marines with the same name and
similar numbers in the camp. Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record.
But the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time. And he proved, in a very human
way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
B. because the old man repeatedly called for his son
C. from a letter found in the old man's pocket
D. form the old man's relatives
B. he was participating in a military exercise
C. he and his fellow soldiers were stuck in marshes
D. he was already with the old man
B. the dying man said a few words to the young man
C. the young marine offered him comfort in the last few hours of the old man's life
D. the night was cold and long, with people coming and going all night
B. when the nurse sensed something strange
C. before the marine came to the nurse's station
D. as soon as he arrived
B. carelessness on the part of someone in the personnel office
C. the wrong records kept in the North Carolina Marine Corps base
D. the wrong information provided by the Brooklyn Red Cross
means that ______.
B. the marine did not tell the truth at the hospital until some time later
C. the marine told the real story about him and the old man
D. the marine made the right decision about what he should do
In my hometown there lived a sixty-year-old man. He was very 1 and never got ill. He liked 2 poisonous(有毒的) snakes since he was a boy. Nearly 3 week, he climbed up a hill nearby to catch snakes. He did not know how many times he had been bitten 4 snakes. He usually took some medicine with him while he was bitten by a snake. But once he had no medicine with him and did not take 5 , yet there was nothing wrong with him. From then on he had taken no medicine when he was hurt by snakes. People did not believe that 6 an interesting story took place.
One day last spring, when the old man 7 a walk in the street, a wild(野生的) dog 8 him and hurt him 9 the left leg with its mouth. The old man was too angry. He picked up a big stone and ran after the dog. But 10 the old man caught up with(追赶上) it, the dog lay down and died after running about 11 long. Then the old man took the dead dog 12 and cooked the meat food. A 13 came to visit him and had a piece of the meat, too. But soon after the neighbor ate the meat, he had a stomachache(胃痛) and had 14 in breathing. The neighbor 15 to a hospital nearby.
The doctor was a man with 16 experience and he knew the old man very well who liked eating poisonous snakes. After asking 17 questions and giving a general examination(常规检查), the doctor let the old man’s neighbor 18 some medicine for snake poison. Happily for them, half an hour later, the patient(病人) got well.
It was said 19 the snake poison in the strange old man’s body was 20 poisonous than in a big poisonous snake. So this story had happened.
1. A. healthy B. excellent C. kind D. good
2. A. hitting B. beating C. eating D. raising
3. A. one B. a C. every D. each
4. A. with B. at C. by D. in
5. A. some B. any C. one D. many
6. A. after B. until C. when D. while
7. A. was having B. was getting C. made D. wanted
8. A. ran at B. knock into C. knock on D. run with
9. A. by B. at C. in D. with
10. A. As soon as B. When C. Before D. Till
11. A. one hundred meter B. one-hundred-meters
C. one-hundred-meter D. one hundred meters
12. A. home B. to house C. to home D. to the family
13. A. student B. neighbor C. farmer D. worker
14. A. fun B. time C. difficulty D. question
15. A. is taken B. was sent
C. has been taken D. had been sent
16. A. many B. a few C. much D. little
17. A. few B. no C. the D. several
18. A. took B. taking C. take D. to take
19. A. if B. that C. which D. how
20. A. less B. much more C. much D. no more
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| In my hometown there lived a sixty-year-old man. He was very 1 and never got ill. He liked 2 poisonous snakes since he was a boy. Nearly 3 week, he climbed up a hill 4 to catch snakes. He did not know how many times he had been bitten by snakes. He usually took some medicine with him 5 he was bitten by a snake. But once he had no medicine with him and did not take any, yet there was nothing wrong with him. From then on he had 6 no medicine for being hurt by snakes. Few people believed that until an interesting story took place. One day last spring, when the old man 7 a walk in the street, a wild dog 8 him and hurt him 9 the left leg with its mouth. The old man was too angry. He picked up a big stone and ran after the dog. But before the old man 10 it, the dog lay down and died after running about - 11 long. Being paid no attention to, the old man took the dead dog 12 nd cooked the meat food. A neighbor 13 to visit him and had a piece of the meat, too. But soon after the neighbor ate the meat, he had a stomachache and had 14 breathing. The neighbor 15 to a hospital nearby. The doctor was a man with 16 experience and he knew the old man very well who liked eating poisonous snakes. After asking 17 questions and giving a general examination, the doctor let the old man's neighbor 18 some medicine for snake poison. Happily for them, half an hour later, the patient got well. It was said 19 the snake poison in the strange old man's body was 20 poisonous than in a big poisonous snake. So this story had happened. | ||||
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