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It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the
parents that nature dealt them. That's especially_
1_of children who remain in homes where they're badly
treated__
2_the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who__
3_for years in foster
(寄养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but
4 to give up custody (监护)
rights.
Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays
5 neither description, but her recent court victory could
6 help
children who do. Kimberly has been the
7 of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her
and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge
8 that the teenager can
remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal
9 "on her.
Shortly after
10 in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched
and sent home with the
11 parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received
a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests
12 that the child wasn't the Twiggs' own
daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody
13 with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families
14 that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting
15 rights. Those rights were ended
when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being
16 .
The decision to
17 Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it clear
that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉)
18 her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was
19 just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership
that cancels(取消) all the
20 of children.
( )1. A. terrible
( )2. A. but
( )3. A. settle
( )4. A. have
( )5. A. likes
( )6. A. actually
( )7. A. victim
( )8. A. ruled
( )9. A. expectation
( )10. A. birth
( )11. A. biological
( )12. A. examined
( )13. A. battle
( )14. A. thought
( )15. A. equal
( )16. A. harmed
( )17. A. make
( )18. A. by
( )19. A. more than
( )20. A. freedom |
B. sad
B. if
B. live
B. refuse
B. gives
B. eventually
B. object
B. believed
B. action
B. judgment
B. own
B. explained
B. right
B. quarreled
B. same
B. forbidden
B. leave
B. through
B. no more than
B. happiness |
C. true
C. when
C. suffer
C. stick
C. fits
C. successfully
C. sacrifice
C. ordered
C. effect
C. operation
C. kind
C. decided
C. agreement
C. agreed
C. visiting
C. wounded
C. give
C. on
C. not more than
C. rights |
D. natural
D. because
D. gather
D. fail
D. knows
D. abruptly
D. teenager
D. indicated
D. claim
D. school
D. wrong
D. showed
D. decision
D. prepared
D. speaking
D. hidden
D. keep
D. in
D. less than
D. ideas |