Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to 36 my fathe

Life became hard when I was 14. My motherand 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 andonly visited us  38  every couple of years.

Before I moved, I knew that people in theUS spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the  39  whenI was  40  to leave. Just like I assumed I could easily becomea doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English in a fewweeks. 

When I  41  in the US andstarted 8^th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone wasspeaking a(n)  42  language I couldn’t understand. I  43  thatlife had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious placehere. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always  44  mymoves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And theworst thing was having to read  45

46  afteralmost seven months of complaining about everything, I realized thatcomplaining didn’t change things.  47  just made my lifeworse. If I was going to  48   in this new concrete jungle, Ihad to  49  . I began to learn English by reading newspapers onmy own  50  school. After about four months, I startedenjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, myteachers  51  my improvement and moved me into a more  52 English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that Iwanted to buy without  53  frustration. For the first time Ifelt like I was living on earth again  54  .I didn’t hearforeign talk. I  55  understand people.

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1.B

2.C

3.A

4.C

5.A

6.D

7.D

8.B

9.D

10.B

11.C

12.A

13.C

14.A

15.C

16.B

17.B

18.D

19.D

20.A 

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