Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to
36 my father, who’d moved there to find
37 work when I was three years old. He had a job at a restaurant and only visited us
38 every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the
39 when I was
40 to leave. Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English in a few weeks.
When I
41 in the US and started 8th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was speaking a(n) 42 language I couldn’t understand. I
43 that life had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always
44 my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the worst thing was having to read
45 46 after almost seven months of complaining about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things.
47 just made my life worse. If I was going to
48 in this new concrete jungle, I had to 49 . I began to learn English by reading newspapers on my own
50 school. After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers
51 my improvement and moved me into a more
52 English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that I wanted to buy without
53 frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again
54 .I didn’t hear foreign talk. I
55 understand people.
| 小题2: | | A．good-looking | B．well-dressed | C．better-paying | D．highly-thought |
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| 小题3: | | A．once | B．other | C．each | D．only |
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| 小题4: | | A．case | B．condition | C．situation | D．state |
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| 小题5: | | A．packing | B．trying | C．managing | D．arranging |
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| 小题6: | | A．reached | B．entered | C．got | D．arrived |
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| 小题7: | | A．strange | B．unusual | C．standard | D．foreign |
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| 小题8: | | A．hoped | B．wished | C．expected | D．demanded |
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| 小题9: | | A．staring | B．looking | C．checking | D．watching |
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| 小题10: | | A．texts | B．newspapers | C．English | D．poems |
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| 小题11: | | A．Although | B．Even if | C．But | D．Since |
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| 小题13: | | A．live | B．study | C．survive | D．continue |
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| 小题14: | | A．adapt | B．adopt | C．adore | D．admire |
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| 小题16: | | A．made | B．noticed | C．concerned | D．remember |
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| 小题17: | | A．modern | B．advanced | C．difficult | D．convenient |
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| 小题19: | | A．if | B．though | C．ever | D．because |
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| 小题20: | | A．could | B．should | C．would | D．might |
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