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
36 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t
37 , as I knew, but all the time
38 his foot against mine.
My
39 raced back more than thirty years to the
40 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The
41 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
42 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to
43 each other very well. Frank West
44 me because he wasn’t
45 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had
46 of a mind than a baby has. His “
47 ” consisted of rough sounds—sounds of pleasure or anger and
48 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank
49 on her entirely. He needed all the
50 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She
51 nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the
52 ones. So before we
53 that morning, I stood beside Frank and
54 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
55 to me was always the same.
| 小题1: | | A．work | B．stay | C．live | D．expect |
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| 小题2: | | A．answer | B．speak | C．smile | D．laugh |
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| 小题3: | | A．covering | B．moving | C．fighting | D．pressing |
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| 小题4: | | A．minds | B．memories | C．thoughts | D．brains |
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| 小题5: | | A．better | B．dark | C．younger | D．old |
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| 小题6: | | A．cave | B．place | C．sight | D．scene |
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| 小题7: | | A．Discussing | B．Solving | C．Sharing | D．Suffering |
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| 小题8: | | A．learn from | B．talk to | C．help | D．know |
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| 小题9: | | A．needed | B．recognized | C．interested | D．encouraged |
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| 小题10: | | A．normal | B．common | C．unusual | D．quick |
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| 小题11: | | A．more | B．worse | C．fewer | D．less |
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| 小题12: | | A．word | B．speech | C．sentence | D．language |
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| 小题13: | | A．not | B．no | C．something | D．nothing |
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| 小题14: | | A．fed | B．kept | C．lived | D．depended |
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| 小题15: | | A．attention | B．control | C．treatment | D．management |
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| 小题16: | | A．lost | B．needed | C．destroyed | D．left |
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| 小题17: | | A．troublesome | B．unlucky | C．angry | D．unpopular |
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| 小题18: | | A．separated | B．went | C．reunited | D．returned |
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| 小题19: | | A．pushed | B．tried | C．showed | D．measured |
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| 小题20: | | A．nodding | B．greeting | C．meeting | D．acting |
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