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I used to believe in the American

Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (

按

揭

),

完形填空

(2014

届中山华侨中学二模

)

I

used

to

believe

in

the

American

Dream,

which

meant

a

job, a mortgage (

按揭

), credit cards and

wanted it and worked

toward it like everyone else, all of us __1__ chasing the same

thing.

One

year,

through

a

series

of

unhappy

events,

it

all

fell

found

myself

homeless

and

had

my

truck

and

$$

__2__

the

countryside for some place I could rent for the __3__ possible

came

upon

a

shabby

house

four

miles

up

a

winding

mountain

road

over

the

Potomac

River

in

West

was

__4__

，

full

of

broken

glass

and

found

the

owner,

rented

it,

and

__5__

a

corner to camp in.

The locals knew nothing about me, but slowly, they started

teaching

me

the

__6__

of

being

a

dropped

off

blankets,

candles,

and

tools,

and

began

sticking

around

to

__7__.They

started

to

teach

me

a

belief

in

a

__8__

American

Dream

—

not

the one of individual achievement but of __9__.

What

I

had

believed

in,

all

those

things

I

thought

were

__10__

for

a

civilized

life,

were

nonexistent

in

this

on

the

mountain, my most valuable possessions were my __11__ with

my neighbors.

Four

years

later,

I

moved

back

into

__12__.I

saw

many

people

were

having

a

really

hard

time,

__13__

their

jobs

and

managed to rent a big enough house to take in a handful of

are

four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people

come in and move on to other ‘d all be in __14__ if we hadn’t

banded together.

The American Dream I believe in now is a shared ‘s not so

much about what I can get for myself; it’s about how we can all

get by __15__.

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) B

．

equally

C

．

violently D

．

naturally

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) B

．

left

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．

toured D

．

searched

(

) B

．

largest

C

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fairest D

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cheapest

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abandoned

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emptied D

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robbed

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approached

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cleared D

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cut

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nature

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art

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quarrel

C

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fight D

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argue

(

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．

real

C

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different D

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remote

(

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．

happiness

C

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friendliness D

．

kindness

(

) B

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expensive

C

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rare

D

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necessary

(

) B

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relationships

C

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satisfaction D

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appointments

(

) B

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society

C

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town D

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life

(

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creating

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quitting D

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offering

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shelters

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camps D

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cottages

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together