He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was ________ from the outside world.

He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was ________ from the outside world.

“Today is the day I start the big diet （节食）,” I told my wife as I raised my hand and   1  , “No chocolate today!”

“Oh, has the hospital gift shop   2   selling it?” she asked.

“No,” I said. “I’ll just have to   3   my strong determination.”

But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton has been there   4  . I knew my promise would   5   disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I’d always be eating a piece of candy from the  6   bag he often shared with me.

Benton was an eight – year – old boy who was  7   because of a kind of cancer, which cause him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen  8   old. For the next twenty – six months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed   9   Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he  10  a headache and lost   11   on his right side. His mom   11  him to the hospital.

Over the next several months, Benton came to our   13   many more times. Each time he came, we   14   say hello, while Benton answered the   15   by holding out a candy from his bag.

So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes   16   but not looking into this world.

“We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?” his mother asked.

Without thinking of my diet, I   17   into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece   18   me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton’s   19  . As I   20   it up, I opened the candy and ate it.

1．A．shouted                 B．answered             C．stated                  D．promised

2．A．stopped                 B．continued            C．kept                    D．tried

3．A．base on                 B．depend on            C．insist on              D．keep on

4．A．one                       B．yet                      C．again                   D．early

5．A．suddenly               B．quickly                C．quietly                 D．shortly

6．A．bottomless            B．countless             C．endless                D．belt less

7．A．ill                         B．injured                 C．deaf                    D．blind

8．A．years                    B．seasons               C．months               D．days

9．A．even though          B．as though            C．if only                 D．as with

10．A．found                  B．developed            C．managed             D．provided

11．A．movement           B．touch                  C．motion                D．sight

12．A．hurried                B．brought               C．rushed                D．carried

13．A．home                  B．room                   C．office                  D．hospital

14．A．would                 B．could                  C．should                 D．must

15．A．meeting               B．greeting               C．encouraging         D．praising

16．A．closed                 B．glimpsed              C．glared                 D．opened

17．A．ran                     B．touched               C．reached               D．felt

18．A．at                       B．for                      C．with                    D．on

19．A．illness                 B．blindness             C．death                  D．sadness

20．A．put                     B．hung                   C．set                      D．gave

I entered St Thoma’s Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent five years there .  I was an unsatisfactory student , for my heart , as you might have guessed , was not in it . I wanted , I had always wanted to be a writer , and in the evening , after my high tea , I wrote and read . Before long , I wrote a novel , called “ Liza of Lambeth”, which I sent to a publisher and was accepted . It appeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success . It was of course an accident , but naturally I did not know that . I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession ; so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine , I set out for Spain to write another book. Looking back now , and knowing as I do the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing , I realize I was taking a fearful risk . It never even occurred to me .

The next ten years were very hard , and I earned an average of £100 a year . Then I had a bit of luck . The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed ; the next play he arranged to put on was not ready , and he was at his wits’ end．He read a play of mine and , though he did not much like it , he thought it might just run for the six weeks till the play he had in mind to follow it with could be produced . It ran for fifteen months . Within a short while I had four plays running in London at the same time . Nothing of the kind had ever happened before . I was the talk of the town . One of the students at St Thomas’s Hospital asked the eminent surgeon with whom I had worked whether he remembered me . “ Yes, I remember him quite well , “ he said . “ One of our failures , I’m afraid ."

41．The author wanted to be a writer because _________________.

A．his heart was not in medicine.  B．he found it easier to make a living by writing

C．he liked taking risks                D．he was interested in writing

42．Which of the following statements is not true ?

A．The author was very pleased to have his book published but he didn’t realize it was something of an accident .

B．The success of his first book led the author to think he could afford to make writing his profession .

C．The author knew he was running a terrible risk when he decided to become a writer .

D．The author became a writer after graduation but was not a successful one .

43．In the second paragraph, “… he was at his wits’ end “ means ________.

A．he was having a nervous breakdown      B．he was out of his wisdom

C．he did not know what to do                  D．he almost went mad

44．The manager of the Court Theatre agreed to put the author’s play on the stage because _____________ .

A．he thought it would run for fifteen months

       B．he knew it was one of the author’s best plays shown in London

       C．he had just put on a play that failed

       D．the play he had arranged to put on was not ready

45．The author became the talk of the town . The reason was that __________.

       A．he talked with a great many people in London about his plays

       B．the plays he wrote were excellently performed in London

       C．his performances in the Court Theatre were unexpectedly

       D．he was criticized by an eminent surgeon as one of their failures