Linda British was an outstanding teacher who felt that if she had the time, she would like to create great art and poetry. When she was 28, however, she began to get severe
36 . Her doctors discovered that she had an enormous brain tumor (瘤). They told her that her
37 of surviving an operation were about 2 percent. Therefore,
38 operate immediately, they chose to wait for six months.
The night before the operation after six months, she
39 to give herself away. She made a
40 , in which she would donate all of her body parts to those who needed them in
41 of her death.
42 , Linda died after the operation. Afterwards, her eyes went to an eye
43 in Bethesda, Maryland, and from there to a recipient in South Carolina. A young man, aged 28, went from darkness to 44 . That young man was so
45 that he wrote to the eye bank thanking them for existing.
46 , he said he wanted to thank the parents of the donator. They must
47 be magnificent people to have a child who would
48 her eyes. He was given the
49 of the British family on Staten Island. He arrived unannounced and rang the doorbell. After hearing his introduction, Mrs. British
50 and hugged him. She said, “Young man, if you’ve got
51 to go, my husband and I would love you to spend your weekend with us.”
He stayed, and
52 he was looking around Linda’s room, he saw that she’d read Hegel. He’d read Hegel in Braille as well.
The next morning Mrs. British was looking at him and said, “You know, I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere before.” All of a sudden she
53 . She ran upstairs and pulled out the last picture Linda had drawn. It was a portrait of her ideal man.
The picture was almost the same as this young man who had received Linda’s eyes.
Then her mother read the
54 poem Linda had written on her deathbed. It
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Two hearts passing in the nightFalling in loveNever able to gain each other’s sight.| 小题1: | | A．heartaches | B．headaches | C．stomachaches | D．backaches |
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| 小题2: | | A．risks | B．happenings | C．chances | D．moments |
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| 小题3: | | A．more than | B．other than | C．better than | D．rather than |
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| 小题4: | | A．decided | B．suggested | C．prepared | D．liked |
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| 小题5: | | A．will | B．letter | C．notice | D．poem |
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| 小题6: | | A．spite | B．case | C．charge | D．view |
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| 小题7: | | A．Actually | B．Unbelievably | C．Surprisingly | D．Unfortunately |
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| 小题8: | | A．hospital | B．center | C．school | D．bank |
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| 小题9: | | A．silence | B．daytime | C．sight | D．delight |
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| 小题10: | | A．excited | B．joyful | C．grateful | D．proud |
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| 小题11: | | A．However | B．Therefore | C．Furthermore | D．Yet |
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| 小题12: | | A．partly | B．hardly | C．seldom | D．indeed |
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| 小题13: | | A．give up | B．give away | C．give off | D．give out |
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| 小题14: | | A．news | B．address | C．gift | D．hometown |
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| 小题15: | | A．ran out | B．stood out | C．reached out | D．turned out |
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| 小题16: | | A．somewhere | B．anywhere | C．everywhere | D．nowhere |
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| 小题17: | | A．as | B．after | C．until | D．since |
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| 小题18: | | A．shouted | B．laughed | C．waked | D．remembered |
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| 小题19: | | A．last | B．first | C．past | D．recent |
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| 小题20: | | A．wrote | B．spoke | C．said | D．talked |
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