A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards, a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to____, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t____, as I knew, but all the time____his foot against mine.
My____raced back more than thirty years to the____days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The____was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
____ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to____each other very well. Frank West____me because he wasn’t ____, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had____of a mind than a baby has. His “____” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and ____more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank ____on her entirely. He needed all the____of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder (炮弹). She____nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the ____ones. So before we____that morning, I stood beside Frank and____my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his____to me was always the same.
A.work B.live C.stay D.expect
A.answer B.speak C.smile D.laugh
A.covering B.moving C.fighting D.pressing
A.minds B.memories C.thoughts D.brains
A.dark B.better C.younger D.old
A.cave B.place C.sight D.scene
A.Discussing B.Solving C.Sharing D.Suffering
A.learn from B.talk to C.help D.know
A.needed B.recognized C.interested D.encouraged
A.common B.normal C.unusual D.quick
A.more B.worse C.fewer D.less
A.word B.speech C.sentence D.language
A.not B.no C.something D.nothing
A.fed B.kept C.lived D.depended
A.attention B.control C.treatment D.management
A.lost B.needed C.destroyed D.left
A.unlucky B.troublesome C.angry D.unpopular
A.separated B.went C.reunited D.returned
A.pushed B.tried C.showed D.measured
A.nodding B.greeting C.meeting D.acting