Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered
blank. ... As time 1 by, I was able to work
2 my fears. Now I understand that the closest I have ever
felt to God is in the back of an ambulance. When I 3
to help 4 strangers, I
am part of something 5 than myself.
Sometimes I truly 6 with someone
7 I would never have met 8 -as I did with Nellie. One
midnight, the AIDS hospice 9 help. A
colleague and I were 10 to a
bedroom. 11 there was
a thin black woman with wild hair. When I was given a
12 of her 13 history, I thought, this lady 14 dead over ten times. She had AIDS, hepatitis and TB. She had had brain
surgery. Tonight she had a seizure. "Hello, I’m Clarissa, are
you in pain" I asked. She replied by cursing 15
me. I didn’t take 16 . When I rode alone with her in the back of the ambulance
as another EMT drove, I 17 the
printout. Nellie was 33 years old. No previous address. No family members. No
next of kin. Her whole life as 18 here
was just a list of medicines, 19 and
illnesses. One line 20 my attention:
hobbies. Nellie’s hobbies were sewing and gospel singing. I could not sew, but I
loved gospel music.