InJanuary2014,whenLuigiQuintos,54,heldhisnewborngrandso...

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In January 2014, when Luigi Quintos, 54, held his newborn grandson, Ayden, for the first time, the baby weighed just over a pound. Ayden had been   21   two months premature (早产的), and doctors thought he   22   not make it. Shocked, Luigi turned to art to   23   himself. He had been drawing portraits of people off and on   24   grade school.

This time, Luigi   25   a portrait of Ayden with his parents—Luigi’s son and daughter-in-law —gazing   26   at him. “It was my way of making sure they’d always be together,” he says.

  27   five months in intensive care, Ayden pulled through. Inspired by the good news, Luigi set up a Facebook page, Priceless Images,   28   he offered to draw portraits of other kids who were sick or had died. “I thought my work might offer     29  ,” he said.

Within days, requests   30   his inbox(收件箱). Often, parents e-mail Luigi a photo of   31   child along with a description of his or her illness or how the child died. Sometimes they   32   that the artist exclude (不包括) oxygen tubes and wires that appear in the   33  , and one family asked for their child’s eyes to be drawn open, an image they never got to see in   34   life.

Each drawing   35   Luigi, who works as a courier driver in Salem, Oregon, a few hours.   36   he’s done, he mails an 11-by-14-inch portrait to the parents and   37   a version of the drawing on his Facebook page.

  38  , Luigi has completed 450 portraits, with another 350 on the   39   list. But Luigi doesn’t mind the backlog (积压). “The drawings give families   40   they can hold on to,” he said.

21. A. dead               B. missing                   C. homeless         D. born

22. A. might               B. must            C. should                 D. would

23. A. calm         B. comfort                  C. excite                 D. save

24. A. as                   B. before                    C. since                      D. for

25. A. made              B. carve                     C. drew                      D. cut

26. A. sideways B. far                          C. up                       D. down

27. A. After               B. Before                   C. Until                      D. Although

28. A. why                B. which                     C. when                     D. where

29. A. awareness       B. comfort                  C. sickness             D. pleasure

30. A. crowded         B. filled                C. emptied             D. spread

31. A. his                   B. her                         C. their                   D. our

32. A. request            B. command               C. order                     D. propose

33. A. book               B. photo                     C. essay                     D. description

34. A. unhappy          B. false                C. universal         D. real

35. A. spends            B. costs                      C. takes                     D. pays

36. A. While              B. When                     C. What                     D. How

37. A. reads              B. posts                      C. publishes         D. downloads

38. A. At that time     B. In the meanwhile    C. In the future       D. To date

39. A. hurrying           B. running                   C. waiting               D. standing

40. A. anything          B. nothing                   C. none                      D. something

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