I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to 41 again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The 42 called an ambulance（救护车）, which took her 43 to the hospital.
My mother has 44 thought that hospitals are frightening. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you 45 diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he 46 . The fact that he was also in the final 47 of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother’s logic, my father’s death was 48 with the hospital.
When a neighbor 49 me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would 50 be taken there, 51 I was told that no one by that name had been 52 , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospital. They didn’t 53 they were holding my mother. I rang the 54 and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n) 55 person.
It took six calls to 56 my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn’t been updated overnight, there was no record of her 57 . My mother had spent more than a 58 in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing 59__ with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would 60 for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us.
| 41.A. take up | B. get up | C. stay up | D. send up |
| 42.A. neighbors | B. strangers | C. relatives | D. friends |
| 43.A. out | B. up | C. away | D. around |
| 44.A. hardly | B. occasionally | C. always | D. rarely |
| 45.A. strange | B. special | C. serious | D. final |
| 46.A.passed away | B. passed by | C. passed over | D. passed down |
| 47.A .measures | B. cures | C. stages | D. years |
| 48.A. connected | B. faced | C. equipped | D. pleased |
| 49.A. took | B. rang | C. put | D. brought |
| 50.A. willingly | B. happily | C. likely | D. easily |
| 51.A. but | B. and | C. when | D. or |
| 52.A. adopted | B. held | C. adjusted | D. adapted |
| 53.A. refuse | B. reject | C. admit | D. insist |
| 54.A. police | B. family | C. doctors | D. nurses |
| 55.A. old | B. dead | C. missing | D. unique |
| 56.A. rescue | B. find | C. comfort | D. persuade |
| 57.A. illness | B. arrival | C. checkout | D. medicine |
| 58.A. month | B. year | C. week | D. day |
| 59.A. different | B. wrong | C. necessary | D. important |
| 60.A. allow | B. answer | C. arrange | D. call |