I was born in a poor village in Uganda. I spent the ________ days of my childhood there. My mother died when I was born. My father never cared about me, which ________ me to leave when I was ten. For the next three years, I helped people do something and they provided me with shelter and food ________. Luckily, a ________ family paid for me to go to school. For the first time after leaving home, I felt ________. Then, I attended school and got a job. I always ________ to help children in need. Yet I ________ felt I could do something more.
In 2016, I got passed to be a foster (收养) parent. By the end of 2019, ten kids had filled my house. In 2020, I got a call from a center for ________ children. When asked if I could take Anthony, I ________ it because ten kids were all I could do with. ________, I was talked into taking Anthony just for the weekend. I didn’t ask about his situation ________.
Anthony arrived that night, “Can I call you Dad?” he asked.
“No.” I needed to keep my ________.
Monday morning a worker in the center came to ________ Anthony. From their talk, I learned he had been ________ three times, but nobody would take him in.
Looking at Anthony, I saw something that made me think of the ________ boy I had once been. “I’ll take him in,” I said.
1.A.boring | B.busy | C.dark | D.ordinary |
2.A.forced | B.allowed | C.prepared | D.reminded |
3.A.in public | B.in advance | C.in person | D.in return |
4.A.kind | B.poor | C.traditional | D.small |
5.A.challenged | B.loved | C.trapped | D.praised |
6.A.failed | B.agreed | C.volunteered | D.pretended |
7.A.hardly | B.already | C.once | D.still |
8.A.troubled | B.homeless | C.deaf | D.slow |
9.A.refused | B.doubted | C.faced | D.forgot |
10.A.Therefore | B.However | C.Besides | D.Instead |
11.A.rudely | B.secretly | C.purposely | D.blindly |
12.A.promise | B.distance | C.balance | D.record |
13.A.cheer on | B.look after | C.pick up | D.chat with |
14.A.taken | B.rescued | C.invited | D.forgiven |
15.A.proud | B.outgoing | C.silly | D.helpless |