完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the   41  I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any  42  , and nobody seemed to care about his   43  .
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine,  45  he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was  46  . I didn’t have the   47  to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might  48  me he had died.
Several   49  later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I   50   who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was  51  ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)   52  look on his face, he replied yes. I   53  how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever   54  .
He began to tell me how,  55  he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could  56  me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie  57  believed that it was my voice and  58  that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t  59  him since, he fills my heart with  60  every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

A．money B．energy C．time D．effort

A．visitors B．relatives C．patients D．problems

A．interest B．requirement C．condition D．thought

A．talking about B．looking for C．pointing out D．helping out

A．so B．even though C．yet D．as if

A．dead B．mad C．gone D．excited

A．right B．chance C．courage D．time

A．cheat B．tell C．remind D．warn

A．days B．weeks C．months D．years

A．realized B．wondered C．heard D．asked

A．great B．alive C．successful D．lucky

A．happy B．uncertain C．nervous D．proud

A．apologized B．remembered C．explained D．told

A．dreamed B．shown C．wanted D．received

A．because B．if C．unless D．as

A．notice B．feel C．imagine D．appreciate

A．hardly B．rightly C．firmly D．wrongly

A．humour B．worry C．touch D．treatment

A．forgotten B．called C．missed D．seen

A．joy B．regret C．respect D．honour