“Today is the day I start the big diet,” I told my wife as I raised my hand and 34 , “No chocolate today!”
“Oh, has the hospital gift shop 35 selling it?” she asked.
“No,” I said. “I’ll just have to 36 my strong determination.”
But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there 37 . I knew my promise would 38 disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I’d always be eating a piece of candy from the 39 bag he often shared with me.
Benton was an eight-year-old boy who was 40 because of a kind of cancer, which
caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen 41 old. For the next twenty six months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed 42 Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he 43 a headache and lost 44 on his right side. His mom 45 him to the hospital.
Over the next several months, Benton came to our 46 many more times. Each time he came, we 47 say hello, while Benton answered the 48 by holding out a candy from his bag.
So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes 49 but not looking into this world.
“We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?” his mother asked.
Without thinking of my diet, I 50 into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece 51 me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton’s 52 . As I 53 the phone, I opened the candy and ate it.
34. A. responded | B. screamed | C. sighed | D. promised |
35. A. succeeded | B. stopped | C. continued | D. tried |
36. A. insist on | B. rely on | C. keep on | D. base on |
37. A. yet | B. early | C. afterwards | D. indeed |
38. A. quickly | B. suddenly | C. hardly | D. briefly |
39. A. hopeless | B. bottomless | C. careless | D. harmless |
40. A. deaf | B. painful | C. injured | D. blind |
41. A. seasons | B. years | C. days | D. months |
42. A. even though | B. as though | C. even if | D. if only |
43. A. developed | B. affected | C. provided | D. gained |
44. A. movement | B. strength | C. balance | D. sight |
45. A. permitted | B. brought | C. carried | D. rushed |
46. A. studio | B. reserve | C. hospital | D. office |
47. A. would | B. could | C. should | D. must |
48. A. meeting | B. encouraging | C. greeting | D. praising |
49. A. stared | B. closed | C. opened | D. glared |
50. A. reached | B. felt | C. touched | D. inspected |
51. A. at | B. with | C. for | D. on |
52. A. blindness | B. illness | C. sadness | D. death |
53. A. brought up | B. hung up | C. turned up | D. broke up |
34--38 DBBBA 39---43 BDDBA 44--48 ADCAC 49---53 CACDB