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吉林省长春外国语学校2018-2019学年高一上学期英语期中考试试卷
It's a Friday morning in Boston, which1Dr. Jim O'Connell is making his rounds. He might be more2inside an exam room, but that's not where his patients are. Dr. Jim O'Connell is one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the3in the city.
More than 550, 000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no4to cure. O'Connell and his team are doing something about it. On a daily routine, they5about 700 regular patients. "I feel like I'm a country doctor in the middle of the city." he said.
O'Connell began to do this 33 years6, when he was at Harvard Medical School and was7to be a one-year position as the founding physician of a new health-care program for Boston's homeless. That turned into a 33-year8at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, one of the country's largest of its kind. O'Connell9about everything, from stitches (缝补)for an arm to surgery for the soul. If patients can't be treated on the street, he finds them a treatment bed at the respite facility(休息治疗区), a place for patients10are too sick to be on the streets11not ill enough for a hospital stay.
"12I had been taught to do—go fast, be efficient—was13when you take care of homeless people." When you see somebody outside, you get them a cup of coffee and sit with them. Sometimes it14six months or a year of offering a sandwich or a cup of coffee before someone would start to talk to me. But15they engage(参与), they'll come to you any time because of16you. When asked about how his life might have17, if he had become a highly paid physician, O'Connell said, "I18think about it anymore."
Some things are far more valuable than money. Just ask Dr. Jim O'Connell who19 everything from patients who have nothing20to give.
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