题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________ again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The   ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.

My mother has ________  thought that hospitals are a real horror. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________  diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he   ________. The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother's logic, my father's death was ________ with the hospital.

When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would________be taken there, ________I was told that no one by that name had been________, so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospitals. Both of them also   ________ that they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n)   ________ person.

It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn't been updated overnight, there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a   ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing   ________  with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ________     for a social worker to visit the house three or four times a day.

Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us.

1.A. wake up      B. get up       C. stay up        D. light up

2.A. neighbors     B. strangers     C. relatives      D. friends

3.A. out           B. up         C. away           D. from

4.A. consequently B. occasionally  C. always         D. rarely

5.A. final        B. special      C. fatal          D. strange

6.A. passed away   B. went away     C. passed by     D. went by

7.A. measures      B. cures         C. stages         D. years

8.A. connected     B. faced         C. equipped       D. pleased

9.A. cheered       B. rang          C. scolded        D. held

10.A. willingly    B. happily       C. likely         D. easily

11.A. but         B. and          C. when           D. or

12.A. adopted     B. admitted      C. adjusted       D. adapted

13.A. refused      B. said          C. denied         D. insisted

14.A. police      B. family      C. doctors      D. nurses

15.A. old         B. dead          C. missing      D. sick

16.A. rescue       B. locate        C. comfort       D. persuade

17.A. illness     B. arrival       C. checkout     D. medicine

18.A. month       B. year          C. week           D. day

19.A. interesting B. wrong       C. special        D. vital

20.A. allow        B. answer       C. arrange       D. Call