首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
医学
Seana lived in the inpatient hospice unit for more than a month, far longer than anyone would have predicted, sustained only on
Seana lived in the inpatient hospice unit for more than a month, far longer than anyone would have predicted, sustained only on
admin
2013-10-31
89
问题
Seana lived in the inpatient hospice unit for more than a month, far longer than anyone would have predicted, sustained only on pain medications and Popsicles.
Late March in Chicago is only technically spring. Most of the time it is still cold and overcast. However, this day was warm, 60 degrees and sunny. It was a Saturday and we planned to go outside after I finished rounds. I found Seana back on the unit sitting in her wheelchair, IV pole and pumps in tow, her winter coat partially covering her hospital gown. Her sister-in-law and Carla, her nurse’ s aide, were ready to go. Everyone was in a great mood.
We went down the elevator, into the brightly sunlit outdoor, and onto the driveway by the women ’ s hospital. Though the initial idea was to just sit in the sun a bit, we were drawn toward the sidewalk. There were the usual smokers outside the hospital, and the smell of cigarette smoke was the first thing I noticed. It seemed horrible to come out here, to have that smell be the first thing to greet Seana. Simultaneous with that thought, though, she said, "What a wonderful smell!" I asked her what smell was so wonderful and she said that it smelled like McDonald’ s. I was thinking, she really does appreciate everything. We went on to the sidewalk and watched a father pitching a ball to his 4-year-old son. The continuity between generations was moving, almost beyond words. As we got to the corner, an inspiration came: we could make it to Lake Michigan, only a few blocks a-way. Did she want to try? Did everyone want to try? Of course we did \ Carla said that it felt like we were cutting school. So off we went, across Sheridan Road, the four of us quite a motley sight; Seana looking like death warmed over in her wheelchair, I wearing my gray hospital coat, the nurse’ s aide in an outrageous green leather coat, her sister-in-law in an Ohio State sweatshirt. Cars slowed down; we waved. We walked up the road to the beach, cutting through rutted lawns, the wheelchair bumping in the spring mud. Seana didn’ t say much, but she seemed translucent in the sun, beaming, lit from within. I imagined it as her farewell tour of the world. I can only fathom the poignant wealth of feelings that were stimulated. For me, it evoked the sense of being a tourist, where everything seems special, a little strange, and very impermanent. I had experienced this same lakefront that way three years before. Then, I had just recovered from my own near death in the form of a myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest and was filled with joy and gratitude that I was still here. The world looked new.
I had been Seana’s age.
She taught me that awareness of death and appreciation of life go together: to imagine that you are seeing things for the last time has the same intensity as seeing them for the first.
We can infer that the smell of smoke made the author feel that______.
选项
A、it was a wrong idea to smoke outside of the hospital
B、the sidewalk was a wrong place for smoking
C、it had been the right plan to go out
D、Seana was at a wrong place
答案
D
解析
第三段第四句讲到It seemed horrible to come out here,to have that smell be the firstthing to greet Seana,由此可知作者认为由于Seana的病她不应当来到这样的地方。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NmU3777K
本试题收录于:
医学博士外语题库考研分类
0
医学博士外语
考研
相关试题推荐
Allthestudentsareafraidofhimsinceheisalwaysseverewiththem.
A、Excited.B、Frustrated.C、Annoyed.D、Relieved.D通过女士的话I’mreallyfeelingthatIcanseethelight“我真感觉自己可以看到光明了”可知女士考完试感到很宽心。
Depressionisastateoflowvitalityanddiscontentwithlifeinwhichtheindividualwithdrawsfromnormallifeactivitieseve
Althoughspeechandwritingarethespecialmeansofcommunicatingofhumans,theinterchangealsotakesplaceinmanyotherway
PeoplefromaroundtheworldflocktotheUnitedStatesexpectingtofindabetterlife.Buttoscientists’surprise,agrowing
Wheneverpeoplegoandliveinanothercountrytheyhavenewexperiencesandnewfeelings.Theyexperiencecultureshock.Manyp
ThelossofLusitanianandsomanyofitspassengers,including128U.S.citizens,arousedawaveofindignationintheUnited
Cellscannotremainaliveoutsidecertainlimitsoftemperature,andmuchnarrowerlimitsmarktheboundariesofeffectivefunct
Seniorcitizensareadvisedtogoinforsomecreativeactivitiestokeepthemselvesmentallyyoung.
Seniorcitizensareadvisedtogoinforsomecreativeactivitiestokeepthemselvesmentallyyoung.
随机试题
影响图像文件数据量大小的主要因素是________。
中国植物群落分类的原则和依据是什么?
影响价值工程研究的因素包括()。
资产负债表内各项目分类与排列的依据是()。
甲于2012年至2013年间,先后抢劫获得财物5万多元。后因公安机关“严打”甲一直潜逃在外。后来,甲被其父亲找回。在其父母的劝说下前往公安机关自首。投案途中恰遇两名熟悉本案的公安人员,当即上前将甲抓获。甲在被审判时,提供了重要线索,让司法机关侦破了乙的爆炸
下列各项中,不属于企业流动负债的是()。
理想气体对于不同过程其热容是不同的,绝热过程的热容为()。
(2016年第34题)结合材料回答问题:材料1要着力服务全面建成小康社会、全面深化改革、全面依法治国、全面从严治党的战略布局。“四个全面”的战略布局是从我国发展现实需要中得出来的,从人民群众的热切期待中得出来的,也是为推动解决我们面临的突出矛盾和问题提
在窗体上有一个命令按钮Command1,编写如下程序:PrivateSubCommand1_Click()Printpp1(3,7)EndSubPublicFunctionpp1(xAsSingle,
在数据库中,建立索引的主要作用是()。
最新回复
(
0
)