Nicholas Kristof travels to Nepal to meet an ophthalmologist who may have cured more people of blindness than anyone in history.

By VIKRAM SINGH and ANDREW BLACKWELL on Publish DateNovember 7, 2015.

_________ has restored eyesight to more than 100,000 people, perhaps more than any doctor in history, and still his patients come. _________ stagger and grope their way to _________ along mountain trails from remote villages, hoping to go under his scalpel and see loved ones again.

A day after he operates to remove cataracts, he pulls off the bandages — and, lo! They can see clearly. At first tentatively, then jubilantly, they gaze about. A few hours later, _________ walk home …

1. Explain why each pronoun correctly completes each blank. It’s O.K. if you didn’t get each answer correct; you can still look at the right answers and figure out why they are correct.

You can use these sentence frames:
The word that goes in the first blank is _________. It is correct because it refers to _________.
The word that goes in the second blank is _________. It is correct because it refers to _________.
The word that goes in the third blank is _________. It is correct because it refers to _________.
The word that goes in the fourth blank is _________. It is correct because it refers to _________.

2. If you had lost the ability to see and then a doctor helped you see again, how do you think you would feel? Who or what is the first thing you would like to see?

You can use these sentence frames:

If I lost my sight and a doctor helped me see again, I think I would feel _________because _________.

I would want to first see _________ because _________.