题目内容：

When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿当护士助手的小姑娘)at a local hospital in my town. Most of the________I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any_______ , and nobody seemed to care about his_______.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, ______anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, _______he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏)of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was_______ . I didn’t have the   _______to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might _______me he had died. Several_______later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.

When I _______who it was, my eyes were filled with tears. He was ________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With a(n)_______look on his face, he replied yes. I ______how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever ______ .

He began to tell me how, ______ he lay there asleep, he could hear me talking to him and could_______me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie_______believed that it was my voice and ______that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t _____  him since, he fills my heart with_______every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

1.A. time    B. energy    C. money    D. effort

2.A. patients    B. relatives    C. visitors    D. problems

3.A. condition    B. requirement    C. interest    D. thought

4.A. talking about    B. helping with    C. pointing out    D. looking for

5.A. so    B. as if    C. yet    D. even though

6.A. gone    B. mad    C. died    D. excited

7.A. right    B. chance    C. courage    D. time

8.A. cheat    B. warn    C. remind    D. tell

9.A. days    B. years    C. months    D. weeks

10.A. heard    B. wondered    C. realized    D. asked

11.A. great    B. lucky    C. successful    D. alive

12.A. happy    B. proud    C. nervous    D. uncertain

13.A. explained    B. remembered    C. apologized    D. told

14.A. dreamed    B. received    C. wanted    D. shown

15.A. because    B. as    C. unless    D. if

16.A. notice    B. appreciate    C. imagine    D. feel

17.A. firmly    B. rightly    C. hardly    D. wrongly

18.A. touch    B. worry    C. humour    D. treatment

19.A. forgotten    B. seen    C. missed    D. called

20.A. respect    B. regret    C. joy    D. sympathy