‘How lucky you are to be a doctor…’ Anyone who’s a doctor is right out of luck, I thought. Anyone who’s studying medicine should have his head examined.

You may think I want to change my job. Well, at the moment I do. As one of my friends says－even doctors have a few friends－it’s all experience. Experience! I don’t need such experience. I need a warm, comfortable, undisturbed bed all my own. I need it badly. I need all telephones to be thrown down the nearest well, that’s what I need.

All these thoughts fly round my head as I drive my Mini(微型汽車) through the foggy streets of East London at 3:45 a.m. on a December morning. I am a ministering angel in a Mini with a heavy coat and a bag of medicines. As I speed down Lea Bridge in the dark at this horrible morning hour, the heater first blowing hot then cold, my back aching from the car-seat, I do not feel like a ministering angel. I wish I were on the beach in southern France. Call me a bad doctor if you like. Call me what you will. But don’t call me at half past three on a December morning for an ear-ache that you have had for two weeks.

Of course, being a doctor isn’t really all bad. We do have our moments. Once in a while people are ill, once in a while you can help, once in a while you get given a cup of tea and rock-hard cake at two o’clock in the morning－then you worry if you have done everything. But all too often ‘everything’ is a repetitious rule: look, listen, feel, tap. Pills, infection(注射), phone, ambulance(救護(hù)車), away to the next.

And then there is always the cool, warm voice of the girl on the switchboard of the emergency bed service who will get your patient into hospital for you－the pleasant voice that comes to you as you stand in the cold, dark, smelly, dirty telephone box somewhere in a dangerous section of town. Oh, it has its moments, this life does.

1．According to the sentence “Anyone who’s studying medicine should have his head examined,” we know that __________.

       A．a(chǎn) medical student should have a very good memory

       B．a(chǎn) doctor must be mentally strong so that he can meet any difficult situation

       C．the writer thinks that those who want to be doctors are crazy

       D．to be a doctor is a challenge for people’s mental health

2．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

       A．The writer wishes he could have a quiet, undisturbed night in bed at home.

       B．One of his friends says that being a doctor helps one gain all sorts of experience.

       C．He hates the telephone as a modern means of communication.

       D．He is not happy with the small and uncomfortable car he is driving.

3．The statement “We do have our moments” could best be replaced by “_______”.

       A．we doctors are called at a moment’s notice to see people who need medical treatment

       B．usually we are glad that we can do something to help the sick

       C．sometimes we find people are thankful for our help

       D．there are chances that doctors find their work rewarding and satisfying

4．From the whole passage we know that the writer __________.

       A．is a bad doctor, unwilling to make a house call during the night-time

       B．is so dissatisfied with his job that he wishes to find a new one

       C．is satisfied with his job but he hates to be called out unnecessarily

       D．thinks a doctor can enjoy certain special rights whether he felt lucky or not

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