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词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。

 After graduation from Harvard Medical School, Dr. William Thomas never thought he'd work in a nursing home. Then,     31      (expect), he became a medical director of a nursing home in New York, and his ideas began to change. “For the first time in my career, I was searching for the answer to the question,     32     does it mean to another person?”     33      (recognize) that the biggest trouble facing nursing-home residents were helplessness, loneliness and boredom, he arranged laughter, usefulness and love as      34      (treat).

As Thomas calls it, he began the “Edenization” of the nursing home in 1992, at last he founded the Eden Alternative. Lazy moments and loud television programmes were replaced      35     lovely children, playful pets, live plants and music in the lobby. These living things were mixed into life. Residents __  36    _______ (encourage) to tend the animals, water the plants, and weed outdoor gardens with the children.

The Eden Alterative changed the lives of the residents at this 80-bed nursing home. In     37        three-day study, the nursing home was compared with a nursing home of equal size. The Eden Alternative had 26 percent less nurse-aide turnover, 15 percent    38     (few) resident deaths and 3 percent lower medication costs.

In 1995 Dr. Thomas devoted his full time     39     the promotion of the Eden Alternative. More than 200 nursing homes throughout the country have begun the Edenization process. Thomas receives queries ( 查询 ) from as far away as Turkey, Japan, Brazil and the Netherlands. He hopes that     40    idea of filling “homeness” into nursing homes and inviting the community in will help to “break conventional practice in long term care.”