Visitor Code of Conduct
Please help us maintain a healing environment for our patient. Visiting hours and policies vary throughout the hospital. Please ask a staff member about the policy on the unit you wish to visit. We ask that you comply with the following visitor rules:
• Do not visit if you are sick (fever, cough, sore throat, nausea, or vomiting) or have been exposed to chicken pox (水痘) or other contagious (传染的) illness within the past three weeks.
• Clean your hands each time you enter and leave the patient’s room.
• Follow isolation precautions (隔离预防措施) that are posted on the patient’s door.
• You must wear shoes and shirts at all times. Clothing must be clean and neat.
• Visitors are limited to two per patient each time.
• Do not use waiting rooms on a unit if you are not visiting a patient in that unit.
• Waiting rooms are not for overnight stays.
• Children must have adult supervision (监护) at all times and must be respectful of the hospital’s healing environment. Some units do not allow children’s visiting.
You will be asked to leave for violating (违反) any of the above rules or for the followings:
• Your behavior creates a risk to patients, families or staff.
• You appear to be ill.
• You refuse to follow isolation precautions.
• You are not respectful or considerate of others.
• You fail to supervise children.
If you believe someone is violating these rules, or you need assistance, please notify security by dialing 7363 on the hospital phones or 813-844-7363 on your mobile phone. Security is available at all times.
Waiting areas are monitored at all times by a security video camera.
1.The underlined phrase “comply with” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A. obey B. study
C. discover D. pass
2.According to the passage, you should ________ before you visit a unit in the hospital.
A. make an appointment B. ask permission from the doctor
C. check the visiting policy D. ring up the patient first
3.If a child wants to visit the patient, he/she should ________.
A. stay at the waiting room of any unit B. be supervised at all times
C. refuse to follow isolation precautions D. create a new environment for patients
4.According to the code, visitors are allowed to ________.
A. touch patient equipment B. visit patients in group of two
C. stay overnight in the waiting room D. change into slippers in the patient room
5.What can be concluded from the text?
A. Children can go to visit patients by themselves.
B. If you seem to be ill, you can still visit the patients unless it is contagious.
C. Visitors who violate the rules will not be allowed to visit again.
D. You can ask for security’s help at any time.
He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family’s cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.
On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, ______ sunfish and perch with worms. Then he tied on a small lure and practiced casting. The lure ______ the water and caused colored ripples (涟漪，细浪) in the sunset, then ______ ripples as the moon rose over the lake.
When his fishing rod doubled over, he knew something ______ was on the other end. His father watched with ______ as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.
Finally, he carefully lifted the ______ fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.
The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish, gills (鳃) playing back and forth in the ______. The father lit a match and looked at the watch. It was 10 p.m.—two hours ______ the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy.
“You’ll have to ______, son.” he said.
“Dad!” cried the boy.
“There will be other fish.” said his father.
“Not as big as this one.” cried the boy.
He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them,______ could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could ______ by the clarity of his father’s voice that the decision was not negotiable (可协商的). He slowly pulled the ______ out of the lip of the huge fish and ______ it into the black water.
The creature swished its powerful body and disappeared. The boy ______ that he would never again see such a great fish.
That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish ______ the one that was set free by him that night long ago. But he does see that same fish ______ ----every time he ______ against a question of ethics.
For, as his father taught him, ethics are simple ______ of right and wrong.______ is only the practice of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking? We would ______ we were taught to put the fish back when we were young.
1.A. catching B. drawing C. trapping D. expecting
2.A. met B. struck C. knocked D. attacked
3.A. golden B. silver C. black D. blue
4.A. light B. slim C. small D. huge
5.A. decision B. instruction C. admiration D. celebration
6.A. lively B. living C. exhausted D. dead
7.A. moonlight B. sun C. wind D. lake
8.A. when B. since C. after D. before
9.A. pull it up B. speed it up C. put it back D. bring it back
10.A. not B. nor C. and D. or
11.A. receive B. believe C. organize D. tell
12.A. worm B. hook C. boat D. match
13.A. lowered B. lifted C. watched D. changed
14.A. expected B. admitted C. complained D. suspected
15.A. that B. when C. as D. because
16.A. once again B. again and again C. all the time D. in the end
17.A. comes up B. catches up C. makes up D. rings up
18.A. information B. advice C. matters D. messages
19.A. It B. He C. The right D. The wrong
20.A. even if B. though C. unless D. if
My mother is always warning me when I go out, “Don’t get off the bus ________ it is stopping.”
A. until B. while
C. before D. after
I was caught in a traffic jam for over an hour, otherwise, I ________ you waiting for such a long time.
A. had not kept B. will not keep
C. would not have kept D. have not kept
—Tom, do you enjoy your present job?
—________. I just do it for a living.
A. Of course B. Not really
C. Not likely D. That’s all right
Seeing the policemen coming, away immediately, leaving the things they’d just stolen.
A. the thieves ran B. did the thieves run
C. the thieves run D. ran the thieves
