One hot summer day, a young couple and their four－year－old daughter Emily

One hot summer day, a young couple and their four-year-old daughter Emily were on their way to the mountains for a few weeks' vacation. Suddenly, a truck in the oncoming lane collided head-on with the family's car. The three of them were seriously injured and immediately taken to the nearest hospital, where Emily was brought to the children's ward and her parents were taken to the intensive care unit. As could well be imagined, Emily was not only in great pain, but she was also very frightened because her parents were not nearby to give her comfort.

Martha, the nurse who was assigned to Emily, was a single, middle-aged woman. She understood Emily's feelings of fear and insecurity and became very devoted to her. When Martha finished her shift, instead of going home, she would volunteer to stay with Emily at night. Emily grew very fond of her and depended on her for her every need. Martha brought her cookies, picture books and toys. She sang songs to her and told her countless stories.

As soon as Emily could be moved, Martha took her to visit her parents in a wheelchair every day. After months of hospitalization, the family was let out. Before they left the hospital, the parents blessed Martha for her devoted and loving care and invited her to visit them. Emily would not let ho of Martha, and insisted that she come to live with them. Martha also did not want to be parted from her little Emily, but her life was in the children's ward of the hospital, and she could not think of leaving. There was a tearful parting as Emily and the loving nurse said good-bye to each other. For a few months the family kept up a close relationship with Martha through phone calls only, since they lived quite a distance away. When they moved abroad, however, they lost contact with each other.

Over thirty years passed. One winter Martha, who was now in her seventies, became seriously ill and was hospitalized in a hospital near her home. A nurse noticed that Martha had very few visitors. She gave the elderly lady special care.

One night when the nurse was sitting near her patient and they were chatting quietly, she confided in her as to what and prompted her to become a nurse. When she was four years old, she explained, she and her parents had been injured in an automobile accident; there had been a wonderful nurse who had brought her back to health with her loving, caring devotion. When she grew up, she determined that one day she, too, would become a nurse and help others — from the young to the old — just as that nurse had done for her.

After she graduated from a nursing school overseas, she met a young man from America, and when they married, they moved to the States. A few months earlier hey had moved to this city, where her husband had been offered a very good job, and she was happy to get a position as a nurse in this hospital. As the nurse told her story, tears flowed from Martha's eyes, as she realized that this must be her little Emily, whom she had cared for after the accident.

When the nurse finished her story, Martha said softly, “Emily, we are together again, but this time you are nursing me!” Emily stared at Martha, suddenly recognizing her. “Is it really you？” she cried out. “How many times I have thought about you and prayed that someday we would meet again!”

When Martha recovered, Emily did not beg her to come and live with her family. Instead, she just packed up Martha's belongings and took her home with her. She has lived with Emily to this day, and Emily's husband and children have taken care of her like a most special grandmother.

56. In the hospital, Martha gave little Emily special care because

A. Emily was only four years old.

B. Emily's parents were seriously injured.

C. Martha w as a single woman who loved children.

D. Martha knew how Emily felt, away from her parents.

57. Why didn't Martha go and live with Emily's family？

A. She preferred to live in the children’s ward.

B. She loved Emily but she belonged to t he ward.

C. She thought Emily might change her mind.

D. She didn't want to move to a new place.

58. Martha lost contact with Emily's family

A. after Emily's family went to live in another country.

B. when she retired and moved to another city.

C. because Emily's family lived too far away to visit.

D. as it was expensive to make long-distance phone calls.

59. Martha and Emily met again thirty years later,

A. Martha, the old nurse and Emily, the young nurse.

B. Martha, the patient and Emily, the caring nurse.

C. Emily, the grateful child and Martha, the loving adult.

D. Emily, the mother and Martha, the childless old woman.

60. Emily moved to the city where Martha lived

A. to work in the hospital in which she had regained health.

B. to find Martha so as to look after her in her old age.

C. to return to the place where she had been brought up.

D. to be with her husband who had obtained a good job there.