Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!
The first day would be a busy one. I should call to me all my dear friends and look long into their faces, imprinting(刻上) upon my mind the outside evidences of the beauty that is within them. I should also view the small simple things of my home. I want to see the pictures on the walls, the lovely small furniture that changes a house into home. My eyes would rest respectfully on the books in dot-raised type which I have read, but they would be more interested in the printed books which seeing people can read, for during the long night of my life the books I have read and those which have been read to me have built themselves into a great shining lighthouse, showing me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit.
In the afternoon of that first seeing day, I should take a long walk in the woods and rest my eyes on the beauties of the world of Nature trying to enjoy in a few hours the brilliance（光辉）which is presenting itself to those who can see. On the way home from my woodland trip, my path would lie close to a farm so that I might see the patient horses working in the field and the peaceful men living close to the soil.
When darkness had fallen, I should experience the double joy of being able to see, thanks to the man-made light which man has created to enlarge the power of his sight when Nature brings darkness
In the night of that first day of sight, I should not be able to sleep, so full would be my mind of the memories of the day!
(By Helen Keller).
| In the morning | ★ Look long into the faces of all her dear friends so that she would never ★ View the small simple things of her home such as warm colors, pictures and so son. ★ Fix her eyes with |
| In the afternoon | ★ Walk in the woods and enjoy the beauties of the world of Nature. ★ Pass a farm, see the patient horses working in the field. |
| In the evening | Experience the double delight of being able to see, with the |
| At night | |
NEW YEAR’S EVE. The doctor’s windows were in darkness. All was silence.
“Please! Oh, please!” whispered Nellie. “Is the doctor at home?”
“His honor’s asleep,” whispered the cook, as though afraid of waking her master.
“He’s only just got home from his fever patients, and gave orders he was not to be woken. “
But Nellie hardly heard the cook. She rushed into the doctor’s house. Running through some dark rooms, she at last reached the doctor’s bedroom.
“My husband is ill!” she cried out. Stepan Lukitch, the doctor, was silent. He slowly sat up, and looked at his visitor with fixed, sleepy eyes.
“My husband is ill!”Nellie continued, controlling her tears. “Come and help us, please!”
“I’ll come tomorrow!” Stepan Lukitch muttered.
“That’s impossible!”cried Nellie. “I know my husband has typhus! He didn’t have so much time left. You are really needed!”
“I...er...have only just come in,” muttered the doctor. “For the last three days I’ve been away, seeing typhus patients, and I’m too tired and ill myself... I just can’t! I’ve caught it myself! My temperature is about forty. . . “
Nellie refused to listen to Stepan’s words and tried to pull him out of his bed.
“I can hardly sit up. Excuse me. I’ll lie down...” the doctor lay down as he said.
“I beg you, doctor,” Nellie cried bitterly. “I will pay you a lot, doctor!”
“Oh, dear! Why, I have told you already!” Stepan Lukitch suggested,”Go to the Zemstvo doctor. He can help you!”
“That’s impossible! He lives more than twenty miles from here, and time is valuable. And the horses can’t stand it. Come! Stepan Lukitch. Come! Have pity on us!”
“It’s beyond everything...I’m in a fever...my head’s aching...and you won’t understand! Leave me alone!”
. . But at last Nellie succeeded in asking the doctor to go with her. At five in the morning they were finally at Nellie’s home. But Nellie found the doctor lying down. He was lying on the sofa and muttering.
“Doctor, please!...doctor!”
“Eh? Ask Domna!” muttered Stepan Lukitch.
“What?
“They said at the meeting...Vlassov said... Who?...What?”
Nellie was scared when she saw the doctor was as delirious as her husband. What was to be done? In Nellie’s mind, husband and wife cannot die at the same time. No matter what happened one must bury the other.
When Nellie looked at her dying husband, memories came into her mind. She cried out and fell down to the ground with a pale face. Nellie knew she had wasted the golden time and she didn’t have so much time left.
“I must go for the Zemstvo doctor,” she murmured.
【小题1】Stepan Lukitch ________when Nellie arrived at his house.| A．was resting on his bed | B．was taking some medicine |
| C．was woken up by his cook | D．was about to see his patients |
| A．Nellie thought twice about Stephan doctor’s suggestion. |
| B．Stepan doctor has been seeing patients for more than a week. |
| C．Stepan doctor’s condition was as terrible as Nellie’s husband’s. |
| D．Nellie didn’t choose Zemstvo doctor because she had little money. |
| A．She felt uncomfortable because of the fever. |
| B．She felt angry about Stepan Lukitch’s words. |
| C．She felt hopeless and thought of old memories. |
| D．She felt tired but decided to try one more time. |
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