Scientific studies show that laughter produces chemicals to make people feel better, which ________ clown doctors can be helpful.

I chose this ________ because of my experience of going to hospital when I was a kid. Although the doctors and nurses did a great job, hospitals weren’t really designed for ________. I stayed there feeling ________ and a little bored.

After years’ ________ training, I work as part of a program known as “hospital clowning”. Being a clown doctor means I can help people by ________ them.

One day, ________ my curly rainbow wig and big red nose, I walked into the waiting area, where there was a familiar atmosphere of ________ and tension. At that time I spotted a small girl crying in pain, with her ankle was twice its ________ size. Her ________ parents, sitting ________ on plastic chairs, were trying their best to ________ the nervous and crying girl.

While the doctor concentrated on ________ her ankle, I got her ________ by doing a magic trick. Although she was clearly still in some pain, her scared and anxious look had been ________—first by a small smile and then by loud laughter as I ________ produced her sock from out of my pocket. Seeing their daughter so much happier ________ made her parents more relaxed. My magic medicine did indeed seem to ________.

Even today, I still ________ a big smile as I remember all the fun and laughter of the day. After all, it is true that ________ is the best medicine.

It was in my first year of work as a doctor. My mouth was________and my palms sweaty. The only thing that kept me ________was the thought that things were so ________worse for the family I was talking to.

A young girl had been rushed up to theatre (手术室) after a road traffic accident. I had spent some time in between ________ in theatre talking to the family as they waited for news. The surgeons had been ________ to save her life. Ashen-faced, the consultant (会诊医师) told them the news. I sat with them for some time as they ________quietly and when I emerged from the room the consultant was standing outside. “I think it would be nice if it came from you,” he said.

I ________ blankly. “What?” I asked. “About organ donation,” he replied. I swallowed hard. Surely this would be the________ thing they’d want to talk about. It felt strongly ________and unsuitable to be considering this kind of conversation while they were being buried in ________. But the problem with organ donation is that every minute ________. I opened the door and sat opposite them, _____ that I was only going to make things worse for them.

“It’s what she’d have wanted,” the mother said________ I’d even finished.

The father nodded. While I had ________they might be angry with me for bringing up such a ______ matter in their moment of grief, ________ they seemed pleased. “She was always so ________,”her father added. As I left them, it ________ to me that I’d been wrong in thinking it would be an awkward conversation. Nothing could take away the pain of having lost their daughter. Yet this last, final act had ________them and helped them feel that the ________ of their daughter lived on in this act of generosity.

Strangely, it was one of the most heart-warming conversations I have ever had.

Wayne Rogerson’s close friend, Ashley Cooper, died when he was seriously injured in a crash in 2008. His family later _________ that his donated organs (器官) helped save seven people. This _________ Mr. Rogerson to start donating blood.

Mr. Rogerson said he _________ to do his bit and had donated blood 21 times, seldom _________ an appointment over eight years. But he could not have known the _________ act of giving blood would _________ save his own life.

At a donation _________ in 2017, a Red Cross Australia Lifeblood nurse discovered Mr Rogerson’s hemoglobin (血红蛋白) count was low and _________ him to seek medical care. “I had no _________, none at all,” he said. After Mr. Rogerson went to a hospital and had medical tests, doctors said that he had developed cancer.

Mr. Rogerson spent about three months in hospital for an operation and treatment. During that time he ____________ two blood transfusions (输血). “I was so ____________ that they got it in time...I was fully recovered in November that year,” he said. But, to his ____________, he can no longer donate blood due to ____________ reasons. “After being both a(n) ____________ and a recipient (接受者), I urge everyone to donate if you can,” he said. “The ____________ you save might just be your own.”