"Isn't there someone else who could do this？" she asked，for the fourth time."Someone who knows what they're doing，perhaps，" she said under her breath，just loud enough for me to hear.

　　Finally，I got it in.Mrs Gillfeather and I both breathed a sigh of relief.

　　Just as I was about to leave the ward，the nurse called me over，"Max，there's another cannula to do on bed 16."

语篇解读　 作者刚从医学院毕业成为一名医生，一次给一位夫人注射时难以找到静脉的正确位置，但最终通过努力做到了。

1．What does the underlined word "elusive" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Hard to find. B．Hard to understand.

C．Easy to describe. D．Easy to reach.

答案　A

解析　词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句的后一句"I'd been jabbing the needle in for at least 20 minutes."及第五段中的"for the fourth time"可知，她的静脉很难找。故选A。

2．From Paragraph 3，we can learn that the author .

A．was a younger doctor

B．didn't like to be a doctor

C．felt himself unlucky

D．thought it easy to do the job

答案　A

解析　推理判断题。根据第三段最后一句"it's a job that tends to fall on the junior doctors(这是一份往往由资历较浅的医生所做的工作)"。可知，作者是一位年轻的医生。故选A。

3．How did the author learn to put the needle into the vein at medical school?

A．By imitating other doctors.

B．By doing it on his own arms.

C．By learning from parents.

D．By practicing with a plastic arm.

答案　D

解析　推理判断题。根据第二段第一句"Before becoming a doctor I'd only a vague idea what a cannula was，coming from an hour spent with a plastic arm while at medical school."可推断出