第二节 完型填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
It
is 36 secret that many children would be
healthier and happier with adoptive parents(养
父母)than with
the parents that nature dealt them. That is especially 37
of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated because the law blindly favors biological parents.
It is also true of children who suffer for years in foster(寄养)homes 38
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 children who do. Kimberly has been the
object of an angry custody battle between the man who 42
her and her biological parents, with whom she has never 43
. A Florida
judge decided that the teenager can
44 with the only father she
has ever known and that her biological parents have no legal right on her.
Shortly
after 45 in
December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were 46
switched(调换)and sent
home with the 47 parents. Kimberly’s biological parents received a
child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical test 48
that the child wasn’t their own daughter, 49
Kim was, thus leading to a custody battle with Robert Mays.
In
1989, the two families 50 that Robert Mays would continue to have
custody right with the biological parents getting 51
rights. Those right were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was
being 52 .
The
decision to leave Kimberly 53 Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But
the judge made clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue(起诉)on her own behalf. Thus he made
clear that she was 54 a
personal possession of her parents. Biological parents does not mean a
complete 55 that cancels(取消)all the rights of the children.
36．A．not B．no C．a D．the
37．A．terrible B．true C．sad D．natural
38．A．for B．because C．because of D．as
39．A．have B．stick C．want D．refuse
40．A．fits B．knows C．likes D．supports
41．A．save B．help C．trouble D．surprise
42．A．bore B．protected C．grew D．raised
43．A．played B．thought C．lived D．met
44．A．remain B．leave C．share D．talk
45．A．birth B．operation C．treatment D．illness
46．A．mistakenly B．purposefully C．hopefully D．additionally
47．A．own B．wrong C．bad D．other
48．A．explained B．said C．showed D．announced
49．A．therefore B．but C．or D．so
50．A．quarreled B．thought C．prepared D．agreed
51．A．visiting B．equal C．watching D．biological
52．A．wounded B．hidden C．forbidden D．hurt
53．A．with B．on C．by D．in
54．A．more than B．just C．no more than D．rather than
55．A．control B．order C．belong D．ownership