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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.
My mother has ________ thought that hospitals are frightening. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he ________ . The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was ________ with the hospital.
When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________ be taken there, ________I was told that no one by that name had been ________ , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospital. They didn’t ________ they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n)________ person.
It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn’t been updated overnight , there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing ________ with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ________ for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us .
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A.wake up |
B.get up |
C.stay up |
D.send up |
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A.neighbors |
B.strangers |
C.relatives |
D.friends |
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A.out |
B.up |
C.away |
D.around |
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A.hardly |
B.occasionally |
C.always |
D.rarely |
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A.strange |
B.special |
C.severe |
D.final |
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A.passed away |
B.passed by |
C.passed over |
D.passed down |
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A.measures |
B.cures |
C.stages |
D.years |
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A.connected |
B.faced |
C.equipped |
D.pleased |
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A.took |
B.rang |
C.put |
D.brought |
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A.willingly |
B.happily |
C.likely |
D.easily |
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A.adopted |
B.held |
C.adjusted |
D.adapted |
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A.refuse |
B.reject |
C.admit |
D.insist |
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A.police |
B.family |
C.doctors |
D.nurses |
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A.old |
B.dead |
C.missing |
D.unique |
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A.rescue |
B.find |
C.comfort |
D.persuade |
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A.illness |
B.arrival |
C.checkout |
D.medicine |
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A.month |
B.year |
C.week |
D.day |
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A.different |
B.wrong |
C.necessary |
D.important |
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A.allow |
B.answer |
C.arrange |
D.call |
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