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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