except for nursing home care，6

　　he lay until I met him when I was an intern.

　　Mr.Smith was almost noncommunicative.After transferring to the nursing home，he 7

　　into a tense and

　　8

　　state，waiting for his life to end.All efforts to bring him back to the mainstream life were 9

　　.Nurses faithfully tended to his physical needs，while he 10

　　as a shell of flesh and bone，completely 11

　　in life.For three years，I saw him every week.Not once did I hear him speak a word.Not once could I 12

　　his innermost thoughts.

　　On my last nursing home visit，an idea struck me.I brought my 13

　　into Mr.Smith’s room as part of a(n)

　　14

　　in “pet treatment”．Something 15

　　occurred.All of a sudden，he sat up and started talking，telling me of the days when he was a boy and had a dog 16

　　to my own.He told me stories of adventures he and his dog had had.For the first time，I saw the soul 17

　　from what had been a living corpse (尸体)．

　　That experience taught me not to underestimate the ability of the simple things in life to18

　　hearts when carefully-made medicine has failed，and never to forget that within even the weakest of human bodies lies a life that is precious indeed—19

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