完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

    It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive (收养的) parents than with the parents that nature dealt (处理)them. That's especially   1   of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated   2   the law blindly (盲目地) favors biological (有血缘关系的) 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.

    Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays   5   neither description, but her recent court victory could   6   children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who   7   her and her biological parents, with whom she has never   8  . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can   9   with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal right" on her. 

    Shortly after   10   in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched (转换) 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 Kim was, thus leading to a custody   13   with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families   14   that Mr. Mays would continue to have custody with the biological parents getting   15   rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays found that Kimberly was being   16  . 

    The decision to   17   Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it   18   that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf (为…的利益; 代表某人). Thus he made it clear that she was more than just a   19   possession of her parents. Biological parentage (亲子关系) does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels (取消) all the   20   of children.

1. A. terrible          B. ture          C. sad         D. natural

2. A. but          B. which          C. because            D. whether

3. A. suffer         B. work             C. settle       D. gather

4. A. have           B. stick     C. want         D. refuse

5. A. fits     B. knows            C. likes        D. gives

fit 适合

6. A. support       B. help       C. interest   D. surprise

7. A. miss          B. protected         C. praised        D. raised

8. A. talked          B. dealt     C. lived     D. cared

9. A. remain    B. leave      C. share            D. chat

10. A. birth           B. school        C. operation        D. judgment

11. A. own      B. wrong            C. kind         D. biological

12. A. explained         B. decided   C. showed       D. examined

13. A. agreement              B. decision            C. battle    D. right

14. A. quarreled          B. thought    C. prepared       D. agreed

15. A. visiting          B. equal         C. speaking        D. political

16. A. wounded           B. hidden        C. forbidden        D. harmed

17. A. give          B. leave         C. meet            D. keep

18. A. free              B. happy         C. clear         D. sure 

19. A. public      B. great   C. proper   D. personal

20. A. joys       B. rights        C. opinions            D. ideas

    It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive (收养的) parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That's especially ture of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated because the law blindly (盲目地) favors biological (有血缘关系的) parents. It's also true of children who suffer for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but refuse to give up custody (监护) rights.

    Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays fits neither description, but her recent court victory could help children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge decided that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal right" on her. 

    Shortly after birth in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched (转换) and sent home with the showed parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests showed that the child wasn't the Twiggs' own daughter, but Kim was, thus leading to a custody battle with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families agreed that Mr. Mays would continue to have custody with the biological parents getting visiting rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays found that Kimberly was being harmed. 

    The decision to leave Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was more than just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage (亲子关系) does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels (取消) all the rights of children.

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