There have been times over the years when I have tried to leave Hailsham behind,when I have told myself I shouldn't look back so much,But then there came a point when I just stopped resisting (反抗).It had to do with this particular donor(器官捐獻(xiàn)者)I had once,in my third year as a carer;it was his(1)
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when I mentioned I was from Hailsham.He had just(2)
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his third donation,it hadn't gone well,and he must have known that he wasn't going to(3)
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.He could hardly breathe,but he looked towards me and said:"Hailsham.I bet that was a (an)(4)
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place."Then the next morning,when I was making conversation to keep his(5)
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off it all,and I asked(6)
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he had grown up,he mentioned some place in Dorset and his face went into a completely new kind of grimace(痛苦的表情).And I realized then how(7)
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he didn't want to be reminded.(8)
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,he wanted to hear about Hailsham.
So over the next five or six days,I told him whatever he wanted to know,and he'd lie there,all(9)
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,a gentle smile breaking through.He'd ask me about the big things and the little things.About our guardians(看護(hù)人),about the football,the rounders,the little path,the duck pond,the food,the view from the Art room over the fields on a foggy morning.Sometimes he'd make me say things(10)
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;things I'd told him only the day before,he'd ask about like I'd(11)
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told him."Did you have a pond?""Which guardian was your special favorite?"At first I thought this was just the drugs,but then I realized his mind was(12)
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enough.What he wanted was not just to(13)
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Hailsham,but to remember Hailsham,just like it had been his own childhood.He knew he was(14)
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to death and so that's what he was doing:getting me to describe things to him,so they'd really sink in,so that maybe during those sleepless -nights,with the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion,the line would blur (變得模糊) between what were my(15)
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and what were his.
(1) |
A.impression |
B.suggestion |
C.reaction |
D.recommendation |
(2) |
A.come through |
B.come up with |
C.come across |
D.come down with |
(3) |
A.deserve it |
B.mean it |
C.take it |
D.make it |
(4) |
A.unbearable |
B.ordinary |
C.beautiful |
D.orderly |
(5) |
A.hands |
B.mind |
C.strain |
D.control |
(6) |
A.when |
B.where |
C.how |
D.whether |
(7) |
A.slightly |
B.hesitantly |
C.a(chǎn)dmittedly |
D.desperately |
(8) |
A.Instead |
B.Otherwise |
C.Moreover |
D.Therefore |
(9) |
A.interested |
B.shocked |
C.confused |
D.depressed |
(10) |
A.once and for all |
B.far and wide |
C.over and over |
D.in no time |
(11) |
A.a(chǎn)lways |
B.never |
C.ever |
D.usually |
(12) |
A.clear |
B.simple |
C.peaceful |
D.a(chǎn)bsent |
(13) |
A.refer to |
B.hear about |
C.live in |
D.think of |
(14) |
A.indifferent |
B.scared |
C.close |
D.bored |
(15) |
A.descriptions |
B.imaginations |
C.ideas |
D.memories |