Passage 4 The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner. An elderly man had collapsed while crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son. From a worn letter found in his pocket, an emergency-room nurse learned that his son was a Marine stationed in North Carolina. It seemed there were no other relatives. Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp. Because time was short ——the patient was dying ——the Red Cross man and officer set out in a jeep. They found the young man wading through some marshes in a military exercise. He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the one plane that might enable him to reach his dying father. It was mid-evening when the young Marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital .A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "You son is here," she said to the old man .She had go repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened. The medicine he had been given because of the pain from his heart attack made his eyes weak and he only dimly saw the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair , so the Marine could sit by the bed. Night are long in hospital ,but all through the night the young Marine sat there in the dimly -lit ward , holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength, Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine rest for a while ,He refused.Why did the nurse repeat her words several times before the patient's eyes opened?
A、Because the old man didn’t like the nurse.
B、Because the old man realized that the young man was not his son.
C、Because of the effects of drugs.
D、Because the old man was very sad.
【正确答案】：C
【题目解析】：上册P92-P93（选文第5段）
