第二节   完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

As an intern (实习医生), I grew to understand that nursing home patients was a valuable part of my education — not just from a  21  angle, but for what they could  22  me personally.

Mr. Smith was my first introduction to the nursing home. His  23 , regrettably, can probably exist in countless hospitals across our nation. An acute (严重的) illness had brought him to our nursing home years ago, and his family  24  him shortly before he left hospital. Helpless and unable to care for himself, he had no  25  except for nursing home care,  26  he lay until I met him when I was an intern.      

Mr. Smith was almost noncommunicative. After transferring to the nursing home, he slipped into a tense and  27  state, waiting for his life to  28 . All efforts to bring him back to the mainstream life were 29 . Nurses faithfully tended to his physical needs, while he  30  as a shell of flesh and bone, completely lacking in life. For three years, I saw him every week. Not once did I hear him speak a word. Not once could I  31  his innermost thoughts.

On my last nursing home visit, an idea  32  me. I brought my  33  into Mr. Smith’s room as part of a(n) 34  in “pet treatment”. Something  35  occurred. All of a sudden, he sat up and started talking, telling me of the days when he was a boy and had a dog  36  to my own. He told me stories of adventures he and his dog had had. For the first time, I saw the soul  37  from what had been a living corpse (尸体).      

That experience taught me not to underestimate the ability of the  38  things in life to touch hearts when carefully-made medicine has failed, and never to forget that within even the weakest of human bodies lies a life that is precious indeed —  39  that needs to be  40  and honored, even if it can’t speak for itself.

21. A. mental B. medical  C. personal D. moral

22. A. guide  B. assist C. teach D. move

23. A. condition B. position C. relation D. situation

24. A. greeted B. received C. boycotted D. abandoned

25. A. alternative B. dream C. means D. desire

26. A. which B. what C. unless D. where

27. A. lonely  B. desperate C. calm D. exciting

28. A. form  B. end C. renew D. develop

29. A. without meaning B. without doubt  C. in vain D. in effect

30. A. looked  B. left C. remained D. showed

31. A. get out B. pick out  C. seek out D. figure out

32. A. struck B. occurred C. happened D. belonged

33. A. dog B. equipment C. medicine D. teacher

34. A. cure B. drug C. test D. experiment

35. A. puzzling B. amazing C. bothering D. disappointing

36. A. strange B. related C. similar D. familiar

37. A. renew B. awake C. appear D. step

38. A. simple B. hard C. strange D. difficult

39. A. something B. one C. anything D. the one

40. A. treated B. ignored C. respected D. cared
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