Linda British was an outstanding teacher who felt that if she had the time, she would like to create great art and poetry. When she was 28, however, she began to get severe   36  . Her doctors discovered that she had an enormous brain tumor (瘤). They told her that her   37   of surviving an operation were about 2 percent. Therefore,   38   operate immediately, they chose to wait for six months.
The night before the operation after six months, she   39   to give herself away. She made a   40  , in which she would donate all of her body parts to those who needed them in   41  of her death.
  42  , Linda died after the operation. Afterwards, her eyes went to an eye   43  in Bethesda, Maryland, and from there to a recipient in South Carolina. A young man, aged 28, went from darkness to   44  . That young man was so   45   that he wrote to the eye bank thanking them for existing.
  46  , he said he wanted to thank the parents of the donator. They must   47   be magnificent people to have a child who would   48   her eyes. He was given the   49   of the British family on Staten Island. He arrived unannounced and rang the doorbell. After hearing his introduction, Mrs. British   50   and hugged him. She said, “Young man, if you’ve got   51   to go, my husband and I would love you to spend your weekend with us.”
He stayed, and   52   he was looking around Linda’s room, he saw that she’d read Hegel. He’d read Hegel in Braille as well.
The next morning Mrs. British was looking at him and said, “You know, I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere before.” All of a sudden she   53  . She ran upstairs and pulled out the last picture Linda had drawn. It was a portrait of her ideal man.
The picture was almost the same as this young man who had received Linda’s eyes.
Then her mother read the   54   poem Linda had written on her deathbed. It   55  :
Two hearts passing in the night
Falling in love
Never able to gain each other’s sight.

A．heartaches B．headaches C．stomachaches D．backaches

A．risks B．happenings C．chances D．moments

A．more than B．other than C．better than D．rather than

A．decided B．suggested C．prepared D．liked

A．will B．letter C．notice D．poem

A．spite B．case C．charge D．view

A．Actually B．Unbelievably C．Surprisingly D．Unfortunately

A．hospital B．center C．school D．bank

A．silence B．daytime C．sight D．delight

A．excited B．joyful C．grateful D．proud

A．However B．Therefore C．Furthermore D．Yet

A．partly B．hardly C．seldom D．indeed

A．give up B．give away C．give off D．give out

A．news B．address C．gift D．hometown

A．ran out B．stood out C．reached out D．turned out

A．somewhere B．anywhere C．everywhere D．nowhere

A．as B．after C．until D．since

A．shouted B．laughed C．waked D．remembered

A．last B．first C．past D．recent

A．wrote B．spoke C．said D．talked