【推荐1】During my first seven semesters as a medical student, I _______ myself to studying and__________spoke with real patients in a hospital. Then I started visiting local hospitals to gather data for my essay. One cold evening, I was “hunting" for the final three patients I needed to complete my study. The records showed a 43-year-old patient, Ms. A, was in the ward still_______ from her recent stroke(中风). No relatives or friends with her. When I sat down on a chair next to her bed and told her my ______ , she agreed. The questionnaire ______ of three simple questions. Before I could   _________ after finishing it, Ms. A spoke up in her weak voice. “Doc, do you think I can get back my normal life?”   Deep in my heart, I thought, God, I wish I was your doctor so I could answer you properly. I replied that ____ I didn't know much about her case, I could tell her what I had learned about the recovery of stroke patients. Ms. A then talked about herself. She told me that her husband died and her pay as a cleaner was ______enough for her kids. I didn't know what to say. Looking into her eyes, I tried to remember the lessons from a communication skills class a few years earlier, but my mind was_____.   Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms. A's hand. Since I didn't have anything to say, I just sat quietly while she talked. That's when it ______ to me that she was not expecting any ______ from me. She just wanted me to listen. All I did was nodding my head as a way of showing my ________. Finally, Ms. A stopped talking. “I'm very sorry for keeping you here to listen to my problems, but I feel ______now.” A single tear fell from the corner of her eye. Finally, I knew what to say. “It's OK, Ma'am. It's part of my ________.”

Ms. A taught me one of the most important lessons a doctor can learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine or technology. They just need someone with the   ________and willingness to lend an ear and spare a little of their time.

【推荐2】I can’t understand how unlucky I am to have a moderate hearing loss. I remember my parents dutifully took me to have regular visits to the audiology(听力学) clinic, but I _________ to wear my hearing aids and wanted to live my life without them. These visits struck _________ into my heart. As soon as I hit adulthood, I never set foot inside an audiology clinic. I liked to _________ myself: Well, I did well at school and went on to university.

However, in my late thirties, it became apparent that my hearing was _________; I found having conversations in large groups _________. I often turned up the volume on the TV, relying _________ on subtitles(字幕). My lack of ability to _________ conversations from a different room also filled my husband with _________.

When I finally went to the audiologist, he was _________ that I should have managed for so long without hearing aids as my loss was now very severe. Until I __________ wearing my hearing aids, I still considered myself __________ in the hearing world. I wish I could say that I wore my aids with __________ but I didn’t. I kept my hair down and rarely put it up; I __________ answering questions about my hearing aids.

Several days ago, I went out to dinner with several friends. The waitress noticed my aids and whispered in my friend’s ear, “Is there anything else I can do for this lady?” It felt __________ to me, who is at least an independent and hearing person with aids. While I kind of __________ her deaf awareness, she __________ me in some way. She just wanted to communicate with my friends rather than talk __________ to me.

From this experience, which made me realize the __________ that deaf people face, I think I owe a(an) __________ to the deaf community for not wearing my hearing aids confidently. I also see the need to build a more deaf-friendly society and I will do what I can to __________ this.

【推荐3】It was snowing _________, and the wind was blowing the snow into great piles _________ the fences at the sides of the road. In some places the piles were so big _________ they were beginning to spread right across the road, but as long as cars _________ keep moving at a proper speed, they could still manage to _________.

_______, at one point on the road there was a _________ bend in the road. There the drivers had to be very _________ to avoid getting stuck.

At last, of course, there was one who was not skillful enough and let his car stop on the corner. He _________ to drive in forward over the piles by speeding up, but the wheels slipped, and the car finished up deep in the snow and blocking the road.

The next car to reach the corner was __________ trouble too. The driver had been trying to __________ a good speed to avoid getting stuck, but he did not __________ the car blocking the road in front of him __________ he was almost on top of it. He put his brakes on hard __________ it slipped sideways into deep snow. Later car after car came round the corner too fast to stop properly, and finished up in the deep snow. Before long, there were five cars stuck as the snow __________ to fall and almost covered them.

________, a neighbour saw what had happened and telephoned the local garage, __________ sent a truck to pull the cars out of the snow. The neighbour watched as the garage men __________ them out one by one. When they reached the car which had started all the __________. the neighbor said to them, “You aren’t going to __________ that one, are you? That’s the one that has brought all this business to you today!”