题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
江苏省南京市金陵中学2017-2018学年高二上册英语期中考试试卷
I believe in miracles(奇迹) because I've seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. 'there's a1in my upper jaw, " she said. "I told my own dentist it's nothing, but he 2I come to see you."
Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would3to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the4of her mouth. A careful examination later5that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer. During her next appointment, I explained to her the6of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, "I know you're worried about me, but I'm just7."
I thought otherwise(不同). After considerable8on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to9me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected,10 treatment. About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and11.
“How are you?” I asked.
“I'm just fine, honey, ” she responded12 high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”
Surprised to see her at all, I answered13, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we'll see about it.”
I couldn't believe my eyes. The cancer that had14nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone-only one small area of redness 15.
I had read of such things happening, but had16seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I've seen many others, because they keep getting17to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle,18through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to19the miracles of one another.
Since my first miracle, I've come to understand that the place for a miracle is20we choose to find it.
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