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My father died when I was a few months old. After his death, my mother moved  back to Louisville,
Kentucky, where 1 had grown up.  We lived in a small house  with her older sister, Marion, and their
mother. This was a time when being a single 2 was still considered unusual.
When I was small, there was a children's book called The Happy Family, and it was a real piece of work.
Dad worked all day long at the office, Mom cooked in the  kitchen, and brother and sister always had friends
sleeping over. The image of the  family in this book was typical (典型的) of the time.  It looked 3 like
my family, but luckily that wasn't the way I heard it. The way my Aunt Marion read it to me made the story
really 4 .
Kind-hearted and open-minded, my aunt was the one who played baseball with me, who took me
horseback riding, who took me to the father-son dinners and who gave me lessons on how to drive.
Believing that anything 5 was probably good for me, she 6 to get a loan (贷款) so that I could go
to Africa to work as a volunteer, which was my most important experience.
As a young girl, Aunt Marion always planned to have a large number of children of her own, but she
never got married. This 7 that she was free to spend all her time taking care of me.  Many people say
we have a lot in common.  She always 8 me to do my best.  She never 9 to make me believe that
I could do anything with  my life that I wanted, if I only tried hard enough.
For more than sixty years, Aunt Marion didn't and still doesn't think of herself. 10 she is forced to
come up to the front, my aunt will stand in the back in family  photos, and she doesn't think that her efforts
have made much 11 . I honor my  aunt, who taught me the things my 12 couldn't. So every June for the
past 40  years, in growing thanUulness to my Aunt Marion, I've sent her a Father's Day card.

(     )1. A. I            (     )2. A. man          (     )3. A. nothing      (     )4. A. surprising   (     )5. A. interesting  (     )6. A. decided      (     )7. A. said         (     )8. A. allowed      (     )9. A. hoped        (     )10. A. Unless      (     )11. A. difference  (     )12. A. teachers

B. she      B. family   B. anything B. boring   B. pleasant B. afforded B. meant    B. expected B. agreed   B. Although B. progress B. mother

C. he         C. parent     C. everything C. sad        C. impossible C. offered    C. proved     C. invited    C. stopped    C. Since      C. trouble    C. father

D. we        D. child     D. something D. funny     D. unusual   D. prepared  D. showed    D. forced    D. failed    D. Before    D. sense     D. friends

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