Задача по теме: "Грамматика и Лексика"

At the hospital  

I was in the hospital for four nights. Mark stayed with me almost the whole time, bringing me sodas when I asked for them, and a razor, and a toothbrush, and a pair of his own pajamas. He also brought me pencils and paper, for which I had little use but which I 30 ____________ he would have been lost without, and a great many books, half of which were in languages I couldn’t read and the other half of which might as well have been. One night — head aching from Hegel — I asked him to bring me a magazine. He 31 __________________ rather startled, and when he came back it was with a trade journal (Pharmacology) he had found in the lounge. We talked 32 ________________ at all. Most of the time he read, with a concentration that astonished me; six hours at a stretch, scarcely glancing up. He 33 __________________ me almost no attention. But he was with me on the bad nights, when I had a hard time breathing and my lungs hurt so I couldn’t sleep. 

Once, when the nurse on duty was three hours late with my medicine, he followed her into the hall and there delivered a tense and eloquent reprimand. After that the nurse was much gentler in her handling of me. The emergency room doctor 34 _____________ me that Mark had saved my life. This was a dramatic and gratifying thing to hear — and the one which I 35 __________________ to a number of people — but secretly I thought it was an exaggeration. In subsequent years, 36 ________________, I’ve come to feel that he might well have been right.