题目内容：

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的词，必要时进行词形变化。

It was Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I went to her room in a hurry and stood at the door. She was an old woman, sitting by the bed, trying to put socks on her f__  1.

   She asked if I could help put on her socks. Instead, I said something like this, “How are you f     2.? Your blood pressure（血压） was high, but it’s b    3. today…...” She s  ___4. me, “Sit down, Doctor. This is my story, not your story.”

   I was surprised and then I sat down. She b   5.to tell me that her only son lived around the corner from her, but she hadn’t seen him for five years. She believed that this was the main reason for her health problems. After h    6.her story, I asked if there was anything e    7.I could do for her. She said no and smiled. A   8.she wanted me to do was to listen.

   Each story is different. Some are true, others not. Yet that does not really matter. What matters to the storyteller is that the story is heard. F __  9. the old lady I learned that listening to someone’s story does not cost a lot of m  __10., but it is much better than expensive medicine.