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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
More than 25 years ago, a train took Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. There, he 1 (bring) up by an Australian family and flew to Tasmania, Australia with them.
2 he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn’t help but wonder about his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country 3 (prove) to be impossible.
Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years 4 (search) for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across 5 familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district 6 a bird’s-eye view. He thought “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”— and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain” — and there it was. Everything just started to match.
When he stood in front of the house 7 he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in the entrance. “There’s something about me,” he thought — and it took him a few seconds but he finally remembered 8 she used to look like.
In an interview Brierley says, “My mother looked so much 9 (short) than I remembered. But she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion (核聚变). I just didn’t know what to say, 10 I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”
