复合题

Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One

Hi. My name is Dina. I’m a black Canadian. When I was two-and-a-half years old I was adopted by a white couple who already had two biological sons. I am grateful for my parents and two brothers but growing up was sometimes difficult.

Nearly everyone living in our neighborhood was white. Children sometimes teased me and called me names because I was black...because I was different... and because I didn’t know who my biological parents were.

Adults could also be cruel. Sometimes they would refuse to acknowledge my parents as my real parents. It was difficult to understand such an attitude but as I grew older I began to realize that they simply didn’t understand that my parents had CHOSEN to raise me. I also realized that being an adopted child didn’t make my own family less real or less valuable.

Now that I am older, I can see that I was lucky to be adopted. In North America, most couples who adopt children want newborn babies. When a child is older than two or three, it becomes more difficult for him or her to be adopted.

Children who cannot find parents to adopt them are placed in foster（收养） homes. Foster children do not become legal members of the family and may live with several different families while they are growing up.

Fortunately this didn’t happen to me. As an adopted child, I grew up as part of a family and with the same security as a child born to the family. My parents are my parents and my brothers are my brothers. I can’t imagine calling anyone else “mother” and “father” or “brother”. “Adoption” is a word for outsiders. 

单选题 Dina’s parents and brothers treat her _____.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据第一段末句“I am grateful for my parents and two brothers but growing up was sometimes difficult”可知， Dina的父母和哥哥对她很好， 因此本题答案为A。
单选题 “Call me names” in Para. 2 means _____.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据第二段内容， 结合第一段末句的“growing up was sometimes difficult”可以推断出此处是指社区的其他孩子对她并不友好， 会认为她是异类， 因此A为正确选项。
单选题 Most adopted children are adopted when they are _____.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】根据第四段末句“When a child is older than two or three, it becomes more difficult for him or her to be adopted”可知， 孩子一旦超过两岁就很难被收养了， 因此D为正确答案。
单选题 It is implied in the passage that _____.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】结合倒数第二段中“Foster children do not become legal members of the family and may live with several different families while they are growing up”和最后一段中“My parents are my parents and my brothers are my brothers”可推断Dina是他家庭的合法成员之一， 可知D为正确选项。
单选题 Dina is lucky mostly because _____.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据文章最后一段第二句“As an adopted child, I grew up as part of a family and with the same security as a child born to the family. My parents are my parents and my brothers are my brothers”可知， Dina很爱她的家庭和家人。 故选择C。