2014届高考英二轮复习专题提高_完形填空专项训练一.docxVIP

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 一 I have a strong faith that families are not only relatives, but sometimes people who turn up and love you when no one else will. In May 1987, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I __1__ a room with two double beds and a bathroom. It was too __2_ for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was _3__ and my stepmother had __4_ us both out of the house. Dad had no __5_ what to do with me. And that was when my other family __6_ . Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home __7__ their only daughter, Su, my best friends, asked them to. I _8__ with them for the next seven years. Barbara washed my skirts just as she did Su’s. She __9_ I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland Beach attended every football games where Su and I were being cheerleaders．10 I could tell，for the Beaches there was no 11 between Su and me；I was their daughter, too. When Su and I （12 ）college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barbara presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay for 23 years． The Beaches knew 13 about me when they took me in：They had heard the whole story from Su．When I was seven，my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to 14 his kids. Before the time I went to live with the Beaches I believed that life was entirely 15 and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I believed that the only person who would take care of me was me. 16 the Beaches，I would have become a bitter, cynical(愤世嫉俗的)woman．They gave me a(n) 17 that allowed me to grow and change．They kept me from being paralyzed by my 18 , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart. I 19 the family．For me，it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was 20 ，but the one that was there for me when I was living in a How