I. 第一节 完形填空（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
I recently had a patient undergo surgery. He’d been out to have dinner with some friends and had started to feel __1__, so he came in to see me. I made the diagnosis (诊断) and called a surgical colleague to do the operation on him. Afterwards, I __2__the surgeon, who rep orted the operation had gone well, with almost no blood loss, and considered the whole process a success. When I went to visit my patient in his hospital room, however, he painted a much __3__ picture. He was very thankful to be __4__ and to all of us who’d worked hard to bring that __5__about. But what he was most focused on was how __6__ his minute-by-minute experience had been. He’d been in terrible pain and felt incredibly uncomfortable after the operation. He had to wait in recovery for an hour __7__ they’d gotten his post-operative pain under control. He’d also had a terrible itch (痒痒) between his shoulder that he was unable to __8__ by himself and couldn’t get anyone else to help him until he’d gotten his nurse’s __9__ . When he’d been cleared to __10__ the operation room, he’d been all but forgotten about for another hour until his hospital room was ready. He’d wanted to __11__ the room number so he could text his wife, but no one around told him. Finally, when he’d arrived at his room, he __12__ that he couldn’t eat anything until he started passing gas. As I listened to his __13__ , I realized what a gap existed in doctors’ goals and his. Doctors __14__ to save him, but they didn’t understand how much the little things __15__ his experience in hospital.
1. A. sick B. happy C. sleepy D. tired
