What am I doing with my daughter at home? Rather than read aloud from books, we

go to dinner and have a very good time. This is usually when her Mom isn't around, and this is when my little girl and I relate better. They're alone together so much. We're seldom alone. When we're alone together, she and I somehow behave differently. We learn about each other. She learns that I'm her father. I learn that she's my daughter. It's a strange feeling, but any parent knows what I'm talking about when I say that I often look at my daughter and wonder just whose kid she is. Where'd she suddenly come from? And why on earth did she pick Laura and me for parents?

When my daughter and I are alone she'll hold my hand and say, “I just love you so much, Daddy!” She's so used to my leaving that when I tell her she and I are going to hang out all night, she gets this great look on her face and says, “We've got so much to do, Dad!” There's nothing like it in the world.

I want my relationship with my daughter to keep growing, so I've been giving my wife a couple of hundred dollars each week and making her go to the shopping center with her girlfriends, or something—anything!

But this closeness is not without its problems. When I'm sitting there playing with her Barbie doll(巴比娃娃)， washing her hair, a voice in me suddenly says, “I've got to get a drink and get out of here.” Right in the middle of all this pleasantness, the voice goes, “Look at yourself! You're washing dolls!”

1.Why does the husband give his wife so much money each week?

A. He wants her to buy more things for the family. 

B. She can do whatever she likes with the money. 

C. He can spend more time with his daughter. 

D. She can spend more time with her friends.   

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The father spends more time with the daughter than the mother does. 

B.The daughter is happy when the father tells her he will be away.

C.The father is happy, hearing “We've got so much to do, Dad!” 

D.The father is sure that the daughter is not his own.   

3.What does the last paragraph tell us about the father?

A.He doesn't enjoy being with his daughter. 

B.He doesn't like washing his daughter's hair. 

C.He likes to enjoy himself by going out for a drink. 

D.He has mixed feelings when he is with his daughter.   

What am I doing with my daughter at home? Rather than read aloud from books, we go to dinner and have a very good time. This is usually when her Mom isn’t around, and this is when my little girl and I relate better. They’re alone together so much. We’re learn about each other. She learns that I’m her father. I learn that she’s my daughter. It’s a strange feeling, but any parent knows what I’m talking about when I say that I often look at my daughter and wonder just whose kid she is. Where’d she suddenly come from? And why on earth did she pick Laura and me for parents?

When my daughter and I are alone she’ll hold my hand and say, “I just love you so much, Daddy!” She gets this great look on her face and says, “We’ve got so much to do, Dad!” There’s nothing like it in the world.

I want my relationship with my daughter to keep growing, so I’ve been giving my wife a couple of hundred dollars each week and making her go to the shopping center with her girlfriends, or something-anything!

But this closeness is not without its problems. When I’m sitting there playing with her Barbie doll(巴比娃娃), washing her hair, a voice in me suddenly says, “I’ve got to get a drink and get out of here.” Right in the middle of all this pleasantness, the voice goes, “Look at yourself! You’re washing dolls!”

1. Why does the husband give his wife xo much money each week”

A. He wants her to buy more things for the family.

B. She can do whatever she likes with the money.

C. He can spend more time with his daughter.

D.She can spend more time with her friends.

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The father spends more time with the daughter than the mother does.

B. The daughter is happy when the father tells her he will be away.

C. The father is happy, hearing “We’ve got so much to do, Dad!”

D.The father is sure that the daughter is not his own.

3. What does the last paragraph tell us about the father?

A. He doesn’t enjoy being with his daughter.

B. He doesn’t like washing his daughter’s hair.

C. He likes to enjoy himself by going out for a drink.

D.He has mixed feelings when he is with his daughter.

I believe listening is powerful medicine. Studies have shown it takes a ___36___ about 18 seconds to interrupt a patient after he begins talking.
It was a Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I ___37___ her room in a hurry and stood at the doorway. She was an old woman, sitting at the edge of the bed, ___38___ to put socks on her swollen（肿胀）feet. I crossed the threshold（门槛）, spoke quickly to the nurse, and scanned her chart noting she was in stable condition. I was almost in the clear.
I ___39___ on the bedrail（床的栏杆）looking down at her. She asked if I could help put on her socks. Instead, I launched into a monologue（独白） that went ___40___ like this, “How are you feeling? Your sugars and blood pressure were high ___41___ they’re better today. The nurse mentioned you’re ___42___ to see your son who’s visiting you today. It’s nice to have family visit from far away. I bet you really look forward to seeing him.”
She ___43___ me with a serious, authoritative voice. “Sit down, doctor. This is my story, not your story.”
I was surprised and embarrassed. I sat down. I helped her with the socks. She began to tell me that her only son lived ___44___ from her, but she had not seen him in five years. She believed that the stress of this ___45___ greatly to her health problems. After hearing her story and putting on her socks, I asked if there was anything else I could do for her. She ___46___ her head no and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to listen.
Each story is different. Some are detailed; others are vague. Some have a beginning, middle and end; others wander ___47___ a clear conclusion. Some are true; others not. Yet all those things do not really matter. What matters to the storyteller is that the story is heard without ___48___, assumption or judgment.
Listening to someone’s story costs ___49___ expensive diagnostic testing but is key to healing and diagnosis.
I often thought of ___50___ that woman taught me, and I ___51___ myself of the importance of stopping, sitting down and truly listening. And, not long after, in a(n) ___52___ twist, I became the patient, with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis（多发性硬化症） at age 31. Now, 20 years later, I sit all the time in a wheelchair.
For ___53___ I could, I continued to see patients from my chair, but I had to resign when my hands were affected. I still teach medical students and other health care professionals, but now from the perspective(角度) of physician and patient.
I tell them I ___54___ the power of listening. I tell them I know firsthand that immeasurable healing ___55___ within me when someone stops, sits down and listens to my story.