Ⅰ.阅读理解
At the first show of The Fault in Our Stars in New York City,the scene I found most difficult to watch was when 16-year-old Hazel,who had Stage 4 thyroid(甲状腺) cancer,woke up in the middle of the night out of breath.
It brought me back to one night in 2008,when I watched my father carry my sister Esther from her bedroom to an ambulance.She was 14 at the time,struggling with thyroid cancer that had spread to her lungs.We held hands and cried as we watched her lying there,so fragile.We didn’t think she’d make it through the night.Yet,like Hazel,she regained her strength.She lived for two more beautiful and hard years—until just after her 16th birthday,in August 2010.
