My aunt Edith was a widow (寡妇) of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors  1   what was then thought to be a very serious heart illness.

Aunt Edith doesn’t  2   defeat easily. She began studying medical  3   in the library and found an article in a magazine about a  4   heart doctor, Dr. Michael Debakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone with the same  5  . The article said Dr. Debakey’s fees (费用) were very high. Aunt Edith could not  6   pay them. But   7   he tell her of someone whose fee she could pay?

So Aunt Edith wrote to him. She simply  8   her reasons for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their  9   in three or four more years; among them a girl who always  10   of traveling and seeing the world. There was not a  11   of self-pity --- only warmth and humor(幽默) and the  12  of living. She mailed the letter, not really  13   an answer.

A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn’t  14   to come in. She stood in the hall and read  15   

Your beautiful letter  16   me deeply.

If you can come to Houston, there will be no  17   for either the hospital or the operation.

Signed: Michael Debakey

That was seven years ago. Since then, Aunt Edith has been  18   the world. Her three children are happily married.  19   her age, she is one of the youngest, most lively  20   I know.

1. A. examined    B. searched          C. checked          D. discovered

2. A. admit      B. recognize          C. accept        D. receive

3. A. theory      B. reports               C. lessons        D. papers

4. A. skillful      B. well-known           C. strange        D. kind-hearted

5. A. method      B. technique         C. trouble           D. illness

6. A. possibly      B. willingly          C. obviously      D. probably

7. A. could        B. should            C. would        D. might

8. A. supplied     B. stated            C. listed         D. referred

9. A. own       B. business          C. self          D. way

10. A. talked      B. dreamed          C. thought       D. wished

11. A. word       B. sentence          C. sign          D. mention

12. A. joy        B. meaning          C. need         D. love

13. A. getting      B. expecting         C. requiring      D. demanding

14. A. want     B. wait             C. hurry         D. stop

15. A. out        B. proudly           C. loudly        D. aloud

16. A. struck      B. shocked           C. interested      D. moved

17. A. money      B. problem          C. charge        D. delay

18. A. over       B. around               C. through       D. in

19. A. For        B. At               C. By           D. With

20. A. children     B. patients           C. travelers       D. people

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