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When I was 14, my family went on our first trip to the United States. My uncle moved there several years
ago to work in the   1  industry in California.
Although we flew several times before. this trip seemed really   2   because I had never been to America
before. However, to our disappointment, the ride was   3  this time. People smoked and the air quality was
very poor.
Moreover, it was   4  to see American money-it was very ugly and boring, all green and white, but what
it could   5  -freedom, Hollywood-was   6   . I didn't see any movie stars in fur coats   7  their lovely dogs,
either. I  8  , "Is this California? Where are the beaches, the sun and the blonde girls?"   9  a land of
dark-haired people, seeing blondes was  10  one of the extremely  11  parts of the trip. However, I was
rather disappointed.   12  , the weather was really foggy, the city looked kind of old and the traffic was
terrible.
We droved north to Sonoma where my  13  had his house. The wine industry to a 14  can be both
extremely boring and endless exciting. It was great to see my cousins and they  15  that they would take
me out when the weather was nicer. We rode for miles and miles and played in the hills where no one could
  16  us.
By the time we  17  to see the city of San Francisco all my bad thoughts had been  18  . I was having
so much fun with my cousins that I wanted to move there.
I saw neither blonde girls nor  19   on that trip, but I met a lot of nice People and  20  that wherever you
live it's always a nice place if you like the people there. I hope I can travel back to California soon.

(     )1. A. clothing      (     )2. A. interesting   (     )3. A. lovely     (     )4. A. surprising   (     )5. A. impress      (     )6. A. frightening   (     )7. A. walking      (     )8. A. explained     (     )9. A. Rounding up            (     )10. A. impossibly   (     )11. A. beneficial   (     )12. A. After all    (     )13. A. uncle     (     )14. A. native       (     )15. A. imagined    (     )16. A. hate      (     )17. A. spread out   (     )18. A. turned down  (     )19. A. beaches    (     )20. A. appreciated

B. wine             B. fearful           B. smooth           B. helpful       B. change            B. moving         B. marching         B. complained          B. Looking through    B. surely          B. wonderful        B. As a result         B. father        B. child            B. promised          B. help             B. held back          B. given away        B. cities          B. identified

C. service        C. boring         C. expensive    C. disappointing   C. realize       C. exciting       C. approaching     C. wondered      C. Resulting from          C. seriously      C. effective      C. First of all      C. brother      C. cousin         C. believed        C. bother      C. turned up         C. washed away       C. planes      C. realized

D. travel               D. common                 D. terrible             D. meaningful           D. buy                    D. depressing         D. fighting                 D. announced         D. Coming from          D. fortunately          D. ordinary              D. Worse still          D. friend               D. worker               D. appealed             D. miss               D. got around              D. put forward            D. hills                D. imagined

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