Holly O'Brien didn't know Meagan Hughes, another Korean American nurse working on the same floor at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. After O'Brien and Hughes finally met, they did begin to notice parallels' in their lives. They were both certified (持证的) nursing assistants. They were both orphans who had been adopted by American families. And their reasons for ending up at the orphanages (孤儿院) were the same: abandonment.
Suddenly, the coincidences seemed more than merely interesting. In fact, for years, O'Brien sensed that she'd had a half-sister in Republic of Korea. Though her mother had disappeared when she was an infant and she was only five when her father was killed by a train, she had a memory of her and her father living, briefly, with his second wife and a baby girl. O'Brien was ultimately adopted by a loving couple from Alexandria, Virginia, but her Korean childhood never left her. She remembered one night, when she was about nine years old, she woke up from a dream and screamed, “My daddy died. I have a sister. I need to find her.” O'Brien's adoptive family contacted the orphanage in Korea for information, but there was no record of a sibling.
Hughes wasn't troubled by lingering memories; instead, she was haunted because she didn't have any. Adopted when she was four by a family in Kingston, New York, she couldn't remember either of her biological parents. “My whole life has been a question in my mind, and emptiness,” she said.
Now the coincidence of meeting O'Brien offered the chance to fill in the blanks. A year ago, the urses decided to take at-home DNA tests and mailed the samples away to be analyzed. Less than two weeks later, O'Brien got an e-mail. Their DNA matched -- they were half-sisters.
“Is this really happening?” said Hughes. O'Brien was shocked but also relieved. “In my heart, I knew,” she said "I knew she was out there somewhere.” After more than for long decades O'Brien had finally found the missing piece of her pest, working just a few feet away from her.
Today, the sisters wear special necklaces, each with a heart-shaped charm, as a symbol of their bond. “She will always be in my heart,” said O'Brien.
4. Which is true about Holly O'Brien and Meagan Hughes according to the passage?
A.They ended up in the same orphanage for the same reason. |
B.They were adopted by the same American family. |
C.They worked on the same floor in the same hospital. |
D.They were both qualified nurses. |
5. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Their parents were both killed in a traffic accident |
B.O'Brien's adoptive family treated her in earnest. |
C.O'Brien was upset by unpleasant memories but Hughes wasn't. |
D.O'Brien remembered she had had a half-sister in another American family. |
6. Which of the following is the best to replace the underlined word “lingering” in Paragraph 3?
A.existing | B.miserable |
C.unfading | D.earliest |
7. What is the best title of the passage?
A.Half-sisters | B.Special necklaces |
C.Two orphans | D.Tight bonds |