An old man lay in a hospital bed, heavily sedated（给……服镇静剂）to ease the pain  from his heart attack.. The nurse arrived and said, "Your   36    is here," repeating the  words several times before the   37    conscious man opened his eyes. His son was a   38    who had come back from service to    39    to his beloved father.
The elderly man 40  out to touch his son's hand and held it gently.  All through  the   41    ,the young soldier sat in the ward（病房）offering words of   42    to his dying dad, who said   43    but kept a weak grip of his child.   44    of the noise of the oxygen tank and the moans（呻吟声）of the other patients, the soldier remained   45    by  the old man-s side.
Several times in the course of that long night, the nurse returned and suggested that  the soldier leave to   4 6    for a while, But each time he would   4 7    As dawn approached the elderly man   48    His loving son rested the old man's  lifeless hand on the bed and left to find the   49    .  The young man waited while the  nurse carried his father's body away and when she returned, offering words of   50      the soldier interrupted her.
"Who was the man?"-he asked.
 51    ,the nurse replied, "He was your father."
“No, he wasn't," the young man said, 6'I've never seen him before in my life.”
"Then  52  didn't you say something'?"
“When I arrived at the ward,I knew right away there had been a(n)  53  ,”the young man explained. "But I also knew that man needed his son, and he wasn't here.I could tell he was too一54  to know who sat beside him but he needed someone there, soI just decided t0  55  him. 

A．wife B．son C．brother D．cousin

A．barely B．simply C．actually D．totally

A．director B．manager C．waiter D．soldier

A．talk B．listen C．attend D．adjust

A．morning B．noon C．afternoon D．night

A．sadness B．truth C．excitement D．encoursgement

A．something B．anything C．nothing D．everything

A．Free B．Unaware C．Afraid D．Tired

A．loyally B．seriously C．impatiently D．carelessly

A．walk B．chat C．rest D．exercise

A．refuse B．agree C．hesitate D．weep

A．awoke B．died C．recovered D．screamed

A．friend B．relative C．ambulance D．nurse

A．love B．anger C．sympathy D．admiration

A．Shocked B．Worried C．Frightened D．Annoyed

A．mistake B．hope C．accident D．event

A．anxious B．sick C．disappointed D．careless

A．leave B．support C．respect D．accompany