“What is the saddest case you ever knew of ?”I asked the matron (护士长)of a hospital just retired. She thought for a minute______two and then replied, “It was a nurse I had, one of the most beautiful girls I ever saw. But she had a car accident and her face was so disfigured(毁容)______ she realized she would have to give up______(nurse)at least until she had had a long series of operations. She was engaged to be married but broke it______.”
The matron shook her head, remembering, “She was so miserable and______(depress)I feared for her sanity(心智健全),”breaking into a smile. “Then I had______ idea. I took her one day to the `Blind Children’s Home`, and that afternoon she played with the children and for the first time I saw her happy. Just as we were leaving, a little blind girl put her arms______ her neck and said,` I do like your voice and I know you must have a lovely face, too.’ The nurse cried all the way home in the car, but it was with______(happy), for she had found her life work with the blind children______came to call her their `lovely lady’.”
A sad case? Well, in a way, But______ a joyful ending!