Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.
____ man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room's only
____ The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
They talked for hours
____ Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he
____ pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The other man felt his world would be
____ and enlivened by all the wonderful world outside.
The window overlooked a
____ with a lovely lake. Ducks played on the water while children
____ their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm in flowers. A fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the
____As the man by the window described all this in delicate
____, the other man would close his eyes and
____ the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade
________ the other man couldn't hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window pictured it with
____ words.
Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the nurse arrived,
____ to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and had the body taken away.
The other man asked to be
____ next to the window. Painfully, he sat up to take his first look at the world outside.
____, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself.
He slowly turn to look out the window. It faced a blank wall.
The man asked the nurse what could have
____ his roommate to describe such wonderful things outside. The nurse
____ that the man was blind. "Perhaps he just wanted to
____ you."
Shared grief is half the sorrow,
____ happiness when shared, is doubled.
1. A.The one | B.One | C.Another | D.This |
2. A.entrance | B.exit | C.passage | D.window |
3. A.on end | B.in vain | C.at ease | D.after all |
4. A.would | B.should | C.might | D.could |
5. A.shortened | B.deepened | C.broadened | D.sharpened |
6. A.courtyard | B.market | C.wood | D.park |
7. A.flew | B.designed | C.sailed | D.swapped |
8. A.distance | B.way | C.process | D.course |
9. A.effect | B.particular | C.detail | D.relief |
10. A.expose | B.imagine | C.realize | D.spot |
11. A.passing away | B.passing by | C.passing down | D.passing out |
12. A.Because | B.As | C.Once | D.Although |
13. A.descriptive | B.productive | C.sensitive | D.tentative |
14. A.strangely | B.surprisingly | C.sceptically | D.only |
15. A.substituted | B.offered | C.switched | D.organized |
16. A.Willingly | B.Finally | C.Generously | D.Occasionally |
17. A.sacrificed | B.referred | C.motivated | D.intended |
18. A.responded | B.respected | C.requested | D.resisted |
19. A.recover | B.defend | C.observe | D.encourage |
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