Задание №22664 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

At the hospital

I spent four nights in the hospital. Mark remained by my side almost the entire time, providing me with sodas upon request, as well as a razor, toothbrush, and a pair of his own pajamas. He also brought me pencils and paper, although I had little use for them, but I 30                           he would have felt lost without them. Additionally, he brought a multitude of books, half of which were in unreadable languages, and the other half might as well have been. One night, overwhelmed by a headache from reading Hegel, I asked him to fetch a magazine. He 31                           somewhat startled, and when he returned, it was with a trade journal (Pharmacology) he had discovered in the lounge. We 32                           engaged in conversation. Most of the time, he immersed himself in reading, displaying a level of concentration that astonished me. He could read for six consecutive hours without barely glancing up. He 33                           little attention to me. However, he was there during the difficult nights when I struggled to breathe and my lungs throbbed, preventing me from finding sleep. Once, when the nurse on duty was three hours late with my medication, he followed her into the hallway and delivered a tense and eloquent reprimand. Subsequently, the nurse treated me with much greater gentleness. The doctor in the emergency room 34                           me that Mark had saved my life. It was a dramatic and gratifying statement to hear, one that I 35                           to several people. Deep down, I believed it might have been an exaggeration. 36                          , in the following years, I have come to think that he might have been right after all.