完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
As an intern (实习医生), I grew to understand that nursing home patients was a valuable part of my education — not just from a         angle, but for what they could           me personally.
Mr. Smith was my first introduction to the nursing home. His        , regrettably, can probably exist in countless hospitals across our nation. An acute (严重的) illness had brought him to our nursing home years ago, and his family         him shortly before he left hospital. Helpless and unable to care for himself, he had no         except for nursing home care,          he lay until I met him when I was an intern.
Mr. Smith was almost noncommunicative. After transferring to the nursing home, he slipped into a tense and        state, waiting for his life to         . All efforts to bring him back to the mainstream life were         . Nurses faithfully tended to his physical needs, while he          as a shell of flesh and bone, completely lacking in life. For three years, I saw him every week. Not once did I hear him speak a word. Not once could I           his innermost thoughts.
On my last nursing home visit, an idea         me. I brought my        into Mr. Smith’s room as part of a(n)       in “pet treatment”. Something         occurred. All of a sudden, he sat up and started talking, telling me of the days when he was a boy and had a dog           to my own.
He told me stories of adventures he and his dog had had. For the first time, I saw the soul          from what had been a living corpse (尸体).
That experience taught me not to underestimate the ability of the         things in life to touch hearts when carefully-made medicine has failed, and never to forget that within even the weakest of human bodies lies a life that is precious indeed —          that needs to be         and honored, even if it can’t speak for itself.

A．mental B．medical C．personal D．moral

A．guide B．assist C．teach D．move

A．condition B．position C．relation D．situation

A．greeted B．received C．boycotted D．abandoned

A．alternative B．dream C．means D．desire

A．which B．what C．unless D．where

A．lonely B．desperate C．calm D．exciting

A．form B．end C．renew D．develop

A．without meaning B．without doubt C．in vain D．in effect

A．looked B．left C．remained D．showed

A．get out B．pick out C．seek out D．figure out

A．struck B．occurred C．happened D．belonged

A．dog B．equipment C．medicine D．teacher

A．cure B．drug C．test D．experiment

A．puzzling B．amazing C．bothering D．disappointing

A．strange B．related C．similar D．familiar

A．renew B．awake C．appear D．step

A．simple B．hard C．strange D．difficult

A．something B．one C．anything D．the one

A．treated B．ignored C．respected D．cared