In 2006, Calvin Lowe’s four-year-old son Tyler needed to have a serious surgery. On the day of the _________, he and his wife brought Tyler to the children’s hospital.
As they waited _________ and nervously in the waiting room, a young doctor who would be performing the _________ came up and explained to Lowe and his wife how the operation would be _________. Lowe’s mind went blank. He just couldn’t help feeling _________, unable to bear what he would do if he lost his son.
But then the doctor did something _________. He looked both Lowe and his wife in the _________, put a hand on each of their shoulders and _________, “Today, your son is my son.” Lowe said he would never _________ what the doctor said because that made him __________. It was very helpful and meaningful.
After the surgery was over, the doctor came back to __________ the family. “He walked up to us and he had a big __________ on his face and he said, ‘Our son is just fine, and you can see him in a few minutes,’” Lowe __________.
All these years after his son’s surgery, Lowe says he is still __________ to have the doctor there and for what he said to them the minute he thinks about the young doctor’s __________.
1.A.diagnosis | B.vacation | C.appointment | D.narration |
2.A.impatiently | B.desperately | C.happily | D.unwillingly |
3.A.action | B.surgery | C.presentation | D.advice |
4.A.made | B.pursued | C.offered | D.conducted |
5.A.excited | B.relieved | C.depressed | D.regretted |
6.A.unexpected | B.essential | C.splendid | D.abnormal |
7.A.face | B.eye | C.mind | D.distance |
8.A.encouraged | B.praised | C.claimed | D.comforted |
9.A.forget | B.believe | C.doubt | D.realize |
10.A.cheer on | B.make sense | C.calm down | D.speak up |
11.A.greet | B.accompany | C.contact | D.meet |
12.A.smile | B.surprise | C.shock | D.shame |
13.A.replied | B.recalled | C.declared | D.agreed |
14.A.eager | B.sorry | C.grateful | D.nervous |
15.A.skill | B.disappointment | C.amazement | D.kindness |