For the entire journey he went over everything the doctor had said, incessantly trying to translate all those tangled, obscure technical terms into plain language and to decipher from them the answer to his questions: it is bad---but is it very bad for me or not so bad yet. (para.2, p. 28)
A. discussed, understand
B. discussed, work out
C. thought about carefully, understand
D. thought about carefully, work out
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He remembered his medicine, sat up, took it, lay on his back, and attended to how the medicine was putting things right and diminishing his pain. (p.34)
A. looked after, lessening
B. paid attention to, lessening
C. looked after, increasing
D. paid attention to, increasing
He could not comprehend it, and tried to drive the thought away as something mendacious, mistaken, morbid, crowding it out with different, acceptable, and healthy thoughts. (para.5, p.37)
A. understand, fill it out
B. put up with, taking the place of it
C. put up with, fill it out
D. understand, taking the place of it
He tried to return to his old habits of mind, which had screened him in the past from the thought of death. But, strange to say, everything that had screened him in the past, obscuring and abolishing the awareness of death, could not do so longer. (para.6, p.37)
A. hidden, making…difficult
B. protected, making…indistinct
C. hidden, making…indistinct
D. protected, making…difficult
Gerasim held Ivan's legs up on his shoulders lightly, willingly, with a simplicity and kindness that touched Ivan. (para.17, p.41)
A. impacted
B. influenced
C. comforted
D. moved