1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

It is a    1     (move) story between Zhong Jing, a doctor, and the villagers in Longhe Village, Longchang Town, Qianxinan Bouyei and Miso Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province.

Before Zhong’s arrival, there was no clinic in the village. If villagers had to see     2     doctor when they suffered from serious health problems, they had no     3     (choose) but to go to the hospital in town which is more than four     4     (hour) walk away. Since Zhong set up the only small clinic (诊所) there with all her life savings at the time, things have changed.

With her excellent medical skill and selfless devotion for a long time, she     5     (final) won the locals’ heart. She often makes calls to some with diseases such as high blood pressure. “I need to remind them     6     (come) to have their blood pressure and blood sugar tested,” she says. If they can’t make it, Zhong will visit them. For the past two years, Zhong     7     (make) more house calls to her patients so that they needn’t move around during the COVID-19 times.

Thanks to the guidance of Zhong, the local villagers increasingly develop a     8     (strong) health awareness than before. The number of patients     9     visit the clinic has been becoming less in recent years. Zhong says, “I’m glad that I’m not only a doctor in the village now. It feels great to be of some help and be trusted     10     them.”

2 . “We need to shampoo the patient s hair,” said Kristen, a physician assistant. Operating room nurse Jess seconded the idea. With the two of them advocating, it needed to happen.

Somehow for the last 23 years, as a man with short hair, I’d always considered a wash with water to be enough to clean a patient’s hair after surgery. We would wash it the day after. That’s just how we’d done things. But why not wash it in the operating room before the patient wakes up? The literature suggests no danger, so I went along with Kristen and Jess, and bought good shampoo.

The first time we did it, it seemed a little time-wasting. If it was about surgical cleanliness, it wasn’t required. As we continued to wash the patient’s hair, I began to notice the effect it had on everyone else in the room. The shampoo transformed the room to a spa for just a few minutes. The patient was the subject of the cleansing, but we benefited too. It was a quiet, collective feeling, knowing that we were finishing our work well. The sweet smell of washing fixed that in our minds.

Patients say they don’t care about hair, but they do. It can be a symbol of power or beauty, as with Samson or Rapunzel. A contemporary example, hair in Namwali Serpell’s novel The Old Drifts serves as a symbol of individual and personality. People definitely care about their hair.

Washing the hair with nice shampoo symbolizes the beginning of some kind of recovery, a return to a new normal for the patient, cleansing away the misfortune that caused them to need me.

We sent the patient out of the room with clean hair, knowing and showing that we’d cared for them well. The patient is more than a case—they’re a fellow human, after all. A postsurgical shampoo seems like a good talisman (护身符), and it’s not time-wasting.

1. What can we learn about the first hair-washing experience in the operating room?

A．The patient was a man with short hair.

B．The idea was first put forward by Jess

C．The experience was a total waste of time.

D．The author realized various benefits afterwards.

2. What’s the author’ s purpose in writing paragraph 4?

A．To explain the power of beauty.

B．To show what hair means to people.

C．To introduce a classic book about hair.

D．To discuss the effect of hair on personality.

3. What will the author probably do in the future?

A．Wash patients’ hair before surgery.

B．Stop wasting time on hair-washing.

C．Continue to shampoo patients’ hair.

D．Give patients talismans for good luck.

4. Which of the following best describes the author as a doctor?

A．Honest.	B．Ambitious.
C．Caring.	D．Generous.