I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming.After my dad’s service in World War Ⅱ,he was ____ again to fight during the Korean War,and when he returned home,he couldn’t drink ____ to numb(麻痹) his terrible memories.He struggled to ____ for his growing family.
On our occasional trips to town,I ____ out boxfuls of books from the library.When I opened a book,I could ____ myself in unknown places—where children weren’t hungry and were in ____ of little.
When I wasn’t daydreaming,my ____ was the life I shared with my brothers and sisters.At night I hid under the covers ____ to silence the sounds of life in an alcoholic home.Classmates asked ____ we didn’t have electricity or a telephone.I suppose my explanations were ____ more than lies,but the stories I told improved ____ every book I read.
Starting at a very young age,my siblings(兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money—to put more food on the family table.We ____ newspapers,babysat,and cleaned other people’s houses.
Mom grew vegetables,raised chickens,and baked bread,so we seldom went hungry,even when supper was only a pot of beans.____ my real hunger wasn’t for food—it was a hunger for a better life.It was a hunger for knowledge about the world ___ our simple existence.It was a hunger to prove Dad ____ when he told us we would never amount to anything.
Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much ____ than our parents expected ___ us.We devoured(如饥似渴地吸取) the offerings of the public schools because we realized that ____ would be our steppingstone into a brighter future.
Now I’m ____ of the accomplishments of my siblings:an art professor;a wellknown doctor;plus business owners.And me,I’m the keeper of the family stores.I’ll never know if we would have so many accumulated successes if we had not known ____ as children.But this I do know:I believe it can be a good thing.
小题1: | A.drafted | B.dismissed | C.invited | D.involved |
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小题2: | A.well | B.plenty | C.enough | D.heavily |
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小题3: | A.search | B.provide | C.hope | D.leave |
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小题4: | A.brought | B.checked | C.gave | D.carried |
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小题5: | A.remind | B.help | C.devote | D.find |
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小题6: | A.memory | B.favor | C.possession | D.need |
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小题7: | A.reality | B.fantasy | C.satisfaction | D.affection |
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小题8: | A.refusing | B.pretending | C.attempting | D.preparing |
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小题9: | A.whether | B.how | C.when | D.why |
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小题10: | A.something | B.anything | C.nothing | D.everything |
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小题12: | A.sent | B.delivered | C.published | D.released |
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小题13: | A.But | B.And | C.Then | D.Otherwise |
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小题14: | A.above | B.around | C.within | D.beyond |
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小题15: | A.right | B.mean | C.wrong | D.nice |
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小题16: | A.more | B.further | C.greater | D.better |
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小题18: | A.ambition | B.dream | C.enthusiasm | D.education |
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小题19: | A.hunger | B.suffering | C.desperation | D.poverty |
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小题20: | A.fond | B.proud | C.aware | D.confident |
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