My daughter had signed an organ donor card, but my husband and I did not know it. We learned about our daughter's decision after she was __1__ injured in a car crash. Doctors __2__ on her for 20 hours and couldn't save her life. Finally, the doctor __3__ told us our daughter was brain dead. Did we want to __4__ organ donation?
I was already in shock. The __5__ of donating my daughter's organs was another shock and I was __6__ about my 15yearold twin grandsons. They had just lost their mother and we had lost our daughter. The doctor __7__ the organ harvesting procedure, but I did not want to hear it.
We __8__ to organ donation and signed the legal papers. The twins said their last goodbye to their mother and the images of their sorrow are __9__ in my mind until now. Two days later we received a __10__ from the organ donor organization. Our daughter's organs had __11__ three lives. Thanks to her generosity, two strangers now see.
Weeks later, we received a certificate from the organ donor organization in __12__ of our daughter. The twins received individual certificates and hardly __13__ at them. I fully understood their __14__. They did not want any certificates, they wanted their mother __15__ and we wanted our daughter.
The sadness associated with organ donation is a __16__ thing. First, it makes the ending of death all too clear. Secondly, I find a measure of comfort in the __17__ that my daughter was an organ donor. My daughter cared about others and this caring __18__ after her death.
Organ donation did not give me a sense of control, __19__ it did give me a sense of giving. __20__ is more caring than signing an organ donor card. I also know my family will find comfort in my daughter's generosity.
1．A.partly B．slightly
C．severely D．hardly
解析：选C 根据下句语境可知作者的女儿车祸时受了重伤。
2．A.insisted B．turned
C．waited D．operated
解析：选D 根据语境，医生为作者的女儿做手术达20小时之久，但未能挽救她的生命。
3．A.in need B．in charge
C．in trouble D．in danger
解析：选B 做完手术后，主治医生告诉作者她的女儿已经脑死亡。
4．A.go on with B．compare with
C．mix with D．deal with
解析：选A 根据上文语境，既然作者的女儿在器官捐献卡上签过字，下一步就涉及是否继续进行器官捐献。
5．A.knock B．difficulty
C．response D．thought
解析：选D 女儿的去世已经让作者悲痛不已，再想到要把女儿的器官捐赠出去，这无疑是雪上加霜。
6．A.certain B．pleased
C．worried D．excited
解析：选C 根据语境作者的女儿有两个未成年的双胞胎孩子，为此作者十分担忧。
7．A.described B．learned
C．praised D．regretted
解析：选A 在医生描述器官移植的具体流程时，作者根本没有心思听。
8．A.stuck B．agreed
C．referred D．objected
解析：选B 根据下文语境，作者同意捐献女儿的器官。
9．A.cloudy B．unknown
C．dark D．clear
解析：选D 在向他们的母亲做最后的道别时，作者的两个外孙十分悲伤，至今作者仍对此情此景记忆犹新。
10．A.call B．passport
C．handbag D．gift
解析：选A 作者在两天后收到了来自器官移植机构的一个电话。
11．A.created B．lost
C．saved D．taken
解析：选C 根据下文语境，由于作者女儿的慷慨，她拯救了三个人的生命，让两个陌生人重见光明。
12．A.danger B．recognition
C．search D．case
解析：选B 几周之后，作者收到了器官移植机构的一份证书，以表示对作者女儿捐献器官的认可和赞赏。
13．A.laughed B．pointed
C．wondered D．glanced
解析：选D 作者的两个外孙也分别收到了器官移植机构的证书，但由于悲伤他们几乎没有心情去看上一眼。
14．A.reaction B．trick
C．decision D．suggestion
解析：选A 作者对孩子的这种反应非常理解。
15．A.away B．off
C．back D．in
解析：选C 此时此刻，对孩子来说，他们不需要什么证书，他们想要他们的妈妈能够回到自己的身边。
16．A.clumsy B．strange
C．popular D．different
解析：选B 在器官捐助时的那种悲痛是捉摸不定的。
17．A.place B．reason
C．cause D．fact
解析：选D 作者从女儿是一位捐赠者这一事实中获得一丝安慰。
18．A.continues B．finishes
C．decreases D．begins
解析：选A 作者的女儿生前关心他人，通过捐赠器官这一方式，去世后这份关爱仍在继续。
19．A.so B．and
C．but D．because
解析：选C 这次器官捐助让作者没有支配感而是一种给予的感觉。
20．A.Anything B．Nothing
C．Something D．Everything
解析：选B 作者认为没有什么比在器官捐献卡上签字更能表达一个人的爱心。
