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 (寄养) homes because of parents who can’t or won’t care for them but  39  to give up custody (监护) 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 (起诉)  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，解释见上。

38.C  同样，对于那些在收养家庭中多年遭受（suffer）痛苦的孩子们来说也是如此，因为他们的养父母不能或者不愿意照顾他们，但是又拒绝（refuse）放弃监护权。

39. B  解释见上。

40. C  14岁的Kimberly不适合（fits）上述两种情况。

41. B  Kimberly的判例对属于上述两种情况的孩子而言最终（eventually）是有所帮助的。

42. B  Kimberly向来是她的养父与从未和她一起生活过的亲生父母争夺监护权的对象或目标（object）。

43. A   法官裁决（ruled）Kimberly可以继续与其唯一熟悉的养父生活在一起，驳回亲生父母对Kimberly监护权的要求（claim）。

44. D  解释见上。

45. A  根据本句后的baby可判断此处为birth。句意：Kimberly出生后不久就被抱错。

46. D  既然是mistakenly switched“被交叉抱错”，那么与之回家的自然是wrong parents，当然不会是亲生父母了。

47. D  另外一个小孩在1988年生病夭折。医学测试表明（showed）这个小孩不是Kimberly亲生父母的孩子，Kimberly才是。Kimberly亲生父母由此与其养父展开了一场争夺监护权的斗争（battle）。

48. A  解释见上。

49. C  最后双方达成协议（agreed），养父保留监护权，亲生父母有探望（visiting）权。

50. C  解释见上。

51. A  但养父若认为亲生父母的探望使Kimberly受到了伤害（harmed），则该权利终止。

52. B  把Kimberly留给（leave）她的养父引起了激烈的讨论。

53. C  法官明确地说，Kimberly也有权为了（on）自己的利益提起诉讼（比如，假设在亲生父母的经济状况远好于养父的情况下）。on one’s behalf 为……的利益，代表。

54. A   Kimberly并不仅仅（more than）是其亲生父母的的私有财产。more than不仅仅，no more than 仅仅，not more than不超过；至多；不比……更 ，less than小于；少于 ； 不超过；不到；决不；毫不。

55. C  血缘关系并不意味着亲生父母可以剥夺孩子全部的权利（rights）。