2 . The story I’m going to tell you happened two years ago when I was in high school in Poland. I came to school early on a sunny day, ____ I felt that there was something wrong. Students from my class were behaving ____.
I noticed that Tom was absent from school that day. Later, I ____ what happened. Tom had got sick and he had lung cancer, a very serious disease. It was _____ for my friends and me. I couldn’t believe that this had happened to him. He was so ____ and he was good at sports.
____ he had lung cancer, so he had to have an operation. It was successful. After that, he returned to school and felt very good. Twice a month he went back to the ____ for medical examinations just to make sure that everything was going well.
One day, the doctors noticed that the cancer had ____ to his brain. When I heard this ____, I felt like bursting into tears, “God, why do you do this, it is not ____.”
A lot of my friends ____ their faith and hope, and they even thought that there was no ____ for him to live, but he was strong. Tom was eager to live, and he said: “No way, I’m not going to ____. I will fight!”
The doctors made another operation on his brain. The operation ____ well and now he feels great and everything is fine. From Tom’s ____, I learned that whatever happens in our lives, we can’t give up or lose heart.
1. 2. A.strangely | B.interestingly | C.naturally | D.impatiently |
3. A.spoke out | B.pointed out | C.worked out | D.found out |
4. A.disappointing | B.frightening | C.shocking | D.amusing |
5. A.kind | B.humorous | C.clever | D.healthy |
6. A.Therefore | B.Thus | C.Besides | D.Anyhow |
7. A.stadium | B.hospital | C.school | D.home |
8. A.adapted | B.crashed | C.turned | D.moved |
9. A.research | B.evidence | C.idea | D.information |
10. A.fair | B.perfect | C.honest | D.reliable |
11. A.held | B.lost | C.rebuilt | D.kept |
12. A.need | B.wonder | C.chance | D.doubt |
13. A.give off | B.give up | C.give out | D.give in |
14. A.went | B.observed | C.command | D.charged |
15. A.misfortune | B.achievement | C.accident | D.experience |