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【完形填空】Cloze: The Nurse and the Mine
When Nurse Lian first arrived in Yumen in 2016, she was (1) to run a small clinic for the miners.
The clinic's oxygen cylinders were (2) to run out in six days, but no one had warned her about the polluted air or the long distance to the nearest hospital.
Her main patient, Ma Jun, had worked underground for 19 years and had a cough that (3) like a dry twig.
The company claimed his illness was (4) and blamed an old shaft, but Lian suspected the new one.
She began to (5) a retired inspector who had once regulated the mine.
He showed her a precedent where a company was fined 240,000 yuan, which he called a rounding (6).
That winter, Lian changed her (7) and started collecting her own data.
She bought a used meter and taught herself to (8) the readings into a simple chart.
She found that dust levels had (9) from 2.1 to 6.4 milligrams per cubic metre over 90 days.
She also noticed that transient workers were the most (10) to dust.
When she presented her findings at a union meeting, the minister asked about her qualification, and she realized she was a solitary figure in a large room.
By 2019, 14 workers had been diagnosed with lung disease, including Ma Jun, who signed a settlement and died 14 months later.
The mine reached its production target, and the air quality monitor recorded dangerous levels of PM2.5 on the day of his funeral.
Lian left Yumen in 2021 and now works in Chengdu, but she keeps the notebook with a list of names and a question mark.
Choices
(1) A. assigned B. sent C. appointed D. designated
(2) A. bound B. due C. about D. set
(3) A. cracked B. broke C. snapped D. popped
(4) A. pardonable B. forgivable C. excusable D. understandable
(5) A. consult B. counsel C. confide D. confer
(6) A. error B. blunder C. mistake D. fault
(7) A. tactic B. approach C. method D. strategy
(8) A. absorb B. digest C. assimilate D. incorporate
(9) A. arisen B. raised C. lifted D. risen
(10) A. vulnerable B. subject C. exposed D. prone