（important，hardly，miss，pound，party，supper，children's，among， sorry，like，better，himself，until，left，happy）
Joan was a nurse who worked in a（1） hospital．One evening there was a big dance at the hospital．Most of the doctors and nurses would be there，but of course some had to be（2） to look after the children，and Joan was not（3） the ones who were free to go to the dance．She liked dancing very much，so when she had to start work that evening while her friends were getting ready to go to the dance，she felt very（4） for herself．
She went to each sick child one after another and said good night，（5） she came to the last little boy．His name was Dickey，and he was eleven years old，but he already talked（6） an adult． Poor Dickey had a very serious illness，and now he was（7） able to move any part of his body except his hands．Joan knew that he would never get any（8） ，but he was always（9） and always thinking about other people instead of about（10） ．
Dickey knew that Joan loved dancing，so now，when she came to say good night to him，he said to her，“I'm very sorry that you have to （11） the dance because of us．But we're going to have a （12） for you．If you look in my drawer（抽屉），you'll find a piece of cake．I saved it from my（13） today，so it's quite fresh．And there's also a（14） there，which my mother gave me last week．You can buy something to drink with the cake．And I'd get up and dance with you myself if I were able to．”
Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all（15） to Joan．
参考答案：
1. children's 2. left 3. among 4. story 5. until 6. like 7. hardly 8. better 9. happy 10. himself 11. miss 12. party 13. supper 14. pound 15. important
