Question

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  36  ­of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated  37  the law blindly favors biological parents. It’s also true of children who  38  for years in foster (寄養(yǎng)) homes because of parents who can’t or won’t care for them but  39  to give up custody (監(jiān)護(hù)) rights .

Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays  40  neither description, but her recent court victory could

 41  help children who do. Kimberly has been the  42  of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge  43  that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal  44  " on her.

Shortly after  45  in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the  46  parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twiggs, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests  47  that the child wasn’t the Twiggs’ own daughter, but Kim only was, thus leading to a custody  48  with Robert Mays . In 1989, the two families  49  that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting  50  rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being  51 .

The decision to  52  Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起訴)  53  her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was  54  just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the  55  of children.

36.A. terrible                 B. sad                   C. true                  D. natural
37.A. but                        B. if                     C. when             D. because
38.A. settle                    B. live                C. suffer               D. gather
39.A. have                    B. refuse                  C. stick                 D. fail
40.A. likes                        B. gives            C. fits                   D. knows
41.A. actually                   B. eventually        C. successfully         D. abruptly
42.A. victim                  B. object               C. sacrifice            D. teenager
43.A. ruled                    B. believed               C. ordered                D. indicated
44.A. expectation              B. action                  C. effect             D. claim
45.A. birth                    B. judgment           C. operation           D. school
46.A. biological                B. own               C. kind                  D. wrong
47.A. examined              B. explained          C. decided             D. showed
48.A. battle                B. right               C. agreement            D. decision
49.A. thought                B. quarreled          C. agreed           D. prepared
50.A. equal                   B. same                 C. visiting              D. speaking

51.A. harmed                    B. forbidden           C. wounded           D. hidden
52.A. make                    B. leave                C. give               D. keep
53.A. by                     B. through            C. on                    D. in

54.A. more than                B. no more than        C. not more than       D. less than
55.A. freedom                  B. happiness          C. rights             D. ideas

Answer 1

36 C

37.D  表原因，解釋見上。

38.C  同樣，對于那些在收養(yǎng)家庭中多年遭受（suffer）痛苦的孩子們來說也是如此，因?yàn)樗麄兊酿B(yǎng)父母不能或者不愿意照顧他們，但是又拒絕（refuse）放棄監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)。

39. B  解釋見上。

40. C  14歲的Kimberly不適合（fits）上述兩種情況。

41. B  Kimberly的判例對屬于上述兩種情況的孩子而言最終（eventually）是有所幫助的。

42. B  Kimberly向來是她的養(yǎng)父與從未和她一起生活過的親生父母爭奪監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)的對象或目標(biāo)（object）。

43. A   法官裁決（ruled）Kimberly可以繼續(xù)與其唯一熟悉的養(yǎng)父生活在一起，駁回親生父母對Kimberly監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)的要求（claim）。

44. D  解釋見上。

45. A  根據(jù)本句后的baby可判斷此處為birth。句意：Kimberly出生后不久就被抱錯。

46. D  既然是mistakenly switched“被交叉抱錯”，那么與之回家的自然是wrong parents，當(dāng)然不會是親生父母了。

47. D  另外一個小孩在1988年生病夭折。醫(yī)學(xué)測試表明（showed）這個小孩不是Kimberly親生父母的孩子，Kimberly才是。Kimberly親生父母由此與其養(yǎng)父展開了一場爭奪監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)的斗爭（battle）。

48. A  解釋見上。

49. C  最后雙方達(dá)成協(xié)議（agreed），養(yǎng)父保留監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)，親生父母有探望（visiting）權(quán)。

50. C  解釋見上。

51. A  但養(yǎng)父若認(rèn)為親生父母的探望使Kimberly受到了傷害（harmed），則該權(quán)利終止。

52. B  把Kimberly留給（leave）她的養(yǎng)父引起了激烈的討論。

53. C  法官明確地說，Kimberly也有權(quán)為了（on）自己的利益提起訴訟（比如，假設(shè)在親生父母的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況遠(yuǎn)好于養(yǎng)父的情況下）。on one’s behalf 為……的利益，代表。

54. A   Kimberly并不僅僅（more than）是其親生父母的的私有財產(chǎn)。more than不僅僅，no more than 僅僅，not more than不超過；至多；不比……更 ，less than小于；少于 ； 不超過；不到；決不；毫不。

55. C  血緣關(guān)系并不意味著親生父母可以剝奪孩子全部的權(quán)利（rights）。