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It’s a Friday morning in Boston, which means Dr. Jim O’Connell is making his rounds. He might be mor...
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It’s a Friday morning in Boston, which means Dr. Jim O’Connell is making his rounds. He might be more ______ inside an exam room, but that’s not where his patients are. Dr. Jim O’Connell is one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the ______ in the city.
More than 550,000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no _____ to cure. O’Connell and his team are doing something about it. On a daily routine, they ______ about 700 regular patients. “I feel like I’m a country doctor in the middle of the city.” he said.
O’Connell began to do this 33 years ago, when he was at Harvard Medical School and was ___ to be a one-year position as the founding physician of a new health-care program for Boston’s homeless. That turned into a 33-year ______ at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, one of the country’s largest of its kind. O’Connell ______ about everything, from stitches (缝补)for an arm to surgery for the soul. If patients can’t be treated on the street, he finds them a treatment bed at the respite facility(休息治疗区), a place for patients who are too sick to be on the streets ______ not ill enough for a hospital stay.
“Everything I had been taught to do—go fast, be efficient—was ______ when you take care of homeless people.” When you see somebody outside, you get them a cup of coffee and sit with them. Sometimes it ______ six months or a year of offering a sandwich or a cup of coffee before someone would start to talk to me. But ______ they engage(参与), they’ll come to you any time because of ______ you. When asked about how his life might have ______ , if he had become a highly paid physician, O’Connell said, “I ______ think about it anymore.”
Some things are far more valuable than money. Just ask Dr. Jim O’Connell who gets everything from patients who have nothing ______ to give.
1.A. comfortable B. imaginative C. cooperative D. difficult
2.A. rich B. homeless C. intelligent D. disabled
3.A. time B. system C. life D. money
4.A. invite B. count C. guess D. treat
5.A. appointed B. fascinated C. followed D. accepted
6.A. career B. task C. choice D. hobby
7.A. confuses B. doubts C. concerns D. dreams
8.A. but B. and C. so D. for
9.A. possible B. impossible C. small D. big
10.A. took B. spent C. cost D. paid
11.A. still B. just C. even D. once
12.A. promoting B. refusing C. trusting D. seeing
13.A. carried out B. come out C. turned out D. taken out
14.A. always B. seldom C. often D. never
15.A. mental B. material C. physical D. professional
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