完形填空 　　I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us ____36____ chasing the same thing. 　　One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell____37____. I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $56. I ____38____ the countryside for some place I could rent for the ____39____ possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road ____40____ the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was ____41____ , full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner ,rented it, and ____42____ a corner to camp in. 　　The locals knew nothing about me, ____43____ slowly, they started teaching me the ____44____ of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began ____45____ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a ____46____ American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of ____47____ . 　　What I had believed in, all those things I thought were ____48____ for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place.____49____ on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my ____50____ with my neighbors. 　　Four years later, I moved back into ____51____. I saw many people were having a really hard time, ____52____ their jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big enough house to ____53____ a handful of people .There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in ____54____ if we hadn’t banded together. The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about ____55____ we can all get by together.