On the night of November 14, 1978,a six-year-old Korean boy was flying to the United States. All he knew was that he was on a plane heading for somewhere. The plane landed at Kennedy International Airport, where he was greeted by a family. This young boy was me.
I have grown up in a town where there were few Asians, so I stuck out in the crowd. I made friends quickly and they treated me just like anyone else. You may ask if anyone made fun of my appearance. Well, of course, I met that' kind of person. I just shrugged it off.
As an adopted child, I have something that others don't have. I have had the benefit of two families. I'm lucky to have got a chance to start a new life. But we must try never to forget our past. Someday I will go back to Korea to find out what kind of culture I left behind.
There is only one thing that I regret about being adopted. When I argue with my parents and they realize they are losing the argument, they sometimes wonder what I would be doing if I were back in Korea. I don't understand this because I thought the purpose of adopting someone was to give them a better chance of growing up in a family. Some day when I am older, I want to adopt a girl and raise her the way my parents have raised me, but I would do it better, for I know what went well and what did not.
1.We learn that when the writer was on the way to his new family,______.
A. he was with his own parents
B. he was very happy and excited
C. he was about ten years old then
D. he didn't know he was going to be adopted
2.If someone sticks out in the crowd, it means that he/she_______.
A. is very good-looking
B. is very kind-hearted
C. is easily noticed by others
D. is disliked by others
3.When the writer was made fun of by others, he _______.
A. was deeply hurt
B. wanted to go back to Korea
C. didn’t care about it that much
D. tried to make friends with them
4.What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. The writer wants to forget his past.
B. The writer isn't sad about being adopted.
C. The writer isn't interested in Korean culture.
D. The writer aren't know anything about Korea.
5.What does the writer want to do when he is older?
A Go back to live with his parents in Korea.
B. Tell his parents what they have done wrong.
C. Find out how to raise children in a better way.
D. Adopt a girl and raise her in a good way.
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and With dust. to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very . and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a . kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with read the loving he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her .
1.A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
2.A. hidden B. covered C. buried D. filled
3.A. Pretending B. Suggesting C. Preferring D. Deciding
4.A. delicate B. tasty C. useful D. tender
5.A. recently B. usually C. previously D. occasionally
6.A.work B. study C. serve D. report
7.A. accounts B. documents C. introductions D. occupations
8.A. devoted B. abandoned C. thrown D. drawn
9.A. depressed B. dead. C. dangerous D.ill
10.A. typical B. traditional C. different D. familiar
11.A. wars B. illnesses C. letters D. prescriptions
12.A. meant B. intended C, planned D. said
13.A. divided B. sorted C. separated D. updated
14.A. sadly B. angrily C. softly D. loudly
15.A. curious B. enthusiastic C. fantastic D. positive
16.A. Christmas card B. envelope C. basket D. lipstick
17.A. found B. wrote C. recognized D. missed
18.A. astonishment B. sorrow C. sickness D. emotion
19.A. story B. message C. speech D. motto
20.A. in person B. in private C. in danger D. in peace
---Do you believe a person will be alive forever?
---_______ It's just a fantasy.
A. Not really B. Of course C. Not especially D. My pleasure
Children often quarrel and even fight with each other, but it won't be long before they _______and play together.
A. turn up B. show up C. take up D. make up
---Could I ask you a rather personal question?
-Sure_______.
A. pardon me B. go ahead C. good idea D. forget it
CCTV says that a storm will hit our city. In order to avoid________, we must take our raincoat with us.
A. to catch B. catching C. to be caught D. being caught
