阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Brother Michael and Chris were born in the early 1960s and grew up in a black neighborhood in Richmond, California. Both boys were
in the primary school and brought home mostly A’s on their report cards.
But in a black family with eight children, money was always
, so the two growing boys often went
. They turned to stealing. They stole cookies from the grocery store and bread from the
. They even stole money from their parents to feed.
At the end of his first year in high school, Chris received three A’s and
F’s on his report card --- the first time he had
anything in school. Because Kennedy High School only allowed three failures
four years, one more F and Chris would be kicked out of school. That’s when he made up his mind to
.
Chris made every effort to become
in school. After Chris graduated from college, he worked as a prosecutor(检察官),
criminals, drug dealers, and gang members. Today Chris is famous as one of the
prosecutors in the trial of the century, the O.J. Simpson trial!
That decision to change took him in an entirely
direction from his brother Michael, who
changing his bad behavior. After high school, Michael continued his anti-social
---fighting in the streets, taking
and stealing. At the age of 42, Michael Darden died from AIDS.
This story
us that what we become is determined by the
we make. We can choose to get
or we can choose to get worse. Chris changed. He changed from being a criminal to prosecuting criminals. His brother Michael, on the other hand, was changed. He was changed by
drugs…and finally, he was changed by a deadly disease. Chris made the right choices. He made the changes in his life that helped him
his great dreams.
| 小题1: | | A．well- behaved | B．well-dressed | C．well-known | D．well- informed |
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| 小题2: | | A．plentiful | B．loose | C．common | D．tight |
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| 小题3: | | A．mad | B．wrong | C．hungry | D．bad |
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| 小题4: | | A．chemist’s | B．baker’s | C．doctor’s | D．barber’s |
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| 小题6: | | A．obtained | B．failed | C．passed | D．missed |
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| 小题7: | | A．beyond | B．by | C．over | D．above |
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| 小题8: | | A．steal | B．respond | C．stand | D．change |
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| 小题9: | | A．outstanding | B．friendly | C．powerful | D．outgoing |
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| 小题10: | | A．treating | B．saving | C．questioning | D．punishing |
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| 小题11: | | A．leading | B．working | C．acting | D．performing |
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| 小题12: | | A．similar | B．different | C．new | D．strange |
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| 小题13: | | A．preferred | B．resisted | C．admitted | D．appreciated |
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| 小题14: | | A．habits | B．signs | C．behaviors | D．manners |
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| 小题15: | | A．drugs | B．actions | C．buses | D．pills |
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| 小题16: | | A．persuades | B．warns | C．convinces | D．wishes |
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| 小题17: | | A．choices | B．friends | C．promises | D．efforts |
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| 小题18: | | A．taller | B．cleaner | C．happier | D．better |
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| 小题19: | | A．illegal | B．useful | C．harmless | D．lawful |
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| 小题20: | | A．destroy | B．form | C．accomplish | D．approach |
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