1 . When I was an adolescent girl, my whole family-mother, father, brother and I lived in a(n) ________ two-bedroom rowhouse. My parents often worked ________ for our well-beings, particularly at night when my brother and I fell ________. I thought it was the same thing as everybody's parents did, I found it interesting the moment I first realized that other families lived ________.
Based on American ________, what we had at the time was small. However, that never ________ me, not then, and not now.
One of my most ________ memories happened at nighttime. We piled into the car to look at the lights in the neighbourhood and then came home. At the top of our steps, there was a little table. The table was in the ________ of a triangle, which had lights ________ the sides. At night I would go and sit before it. I would ________ it on and the one little light bulb ________ it up. It looked magnificent to me.
Somehow I could feel a kind of warmth there. I could feel what it was like to be doing the best you can with what you've got. I could feel the ________ of my parents trying to do the best they could for each other and for their little ones. I could feel how ________ what they shared was-no matter how small our ________ or lack of material things, none of that mattered. What mattered is that we were all there. That created a priceless contentment of which I think even the Angels would ________ .
1. A.dirty | B.dark | C.crowded | D.amazing |
2. A.terribly | B.hard | C.rapidly | D.safely |
3. A.awful | B.aware | C.awake | D.asleep |
4. A.poorly | B.differently | C.familiarly | D.peacefully |
5. A.standards | B.cultures | C.speeds | D.laws |
6. A.bothered | B.assisted | C.blessed | D.shocked |
7. A.practical | B.valuable | C.painful | D.unfortunate |
8. A.surface | B.angle | C.thread | D.shape |
9. A.got through | B.turned back | C.fixed on | D.sent up |
10. 11. 12. A.appearance | B.helplessness | C.determination | D.celebration |
13. A.normal | B.special | C.endless | D.boring |
14. A.findings | B.funds | C.situations | D.accommodations |
15. A.think | B.know | C.approve | D.complain |