2010年高三英语高考练习：完形填空之夹叙夹议类（四）全国通用.docVIP

Passage 1 Its fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before 36 Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma 37 me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the 38 like me. She said, Theres an old saying—the 39 you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood 40 to the mosquitoes. Not 41 it, I replied, Grandmaaaa, thats just an old wives tale! Well, less than a week 42 my arrival in Manila, I was already