【C12】

A．streets

B．troops

C．buses

D．trains

Sheila forgot all about the dog and the TV set,______in the new magazine that had come in the mail.

A．deeply lost

B．deeply losing

C．was deeply lost

D．and deeply lost

The underlined word "hitch" in the second paragraph can be best replaced by______.

A．reason

B．problem

C．report

D．result

【C20】

A．mind

B．footsteps

C．ambitions

D．soul

I had my first chocolate bar at five years old. Ill never forget the【C1】___\_, comforting taste. But the circumstances were【C2】___\_but sweet. It was World War H . I【C3】___\_with my family in the Lithuanian town of Taurage【C4】___\_the Russian army swept west toward Nazi Germany. Many people in our village【C5】___\_away in terror. In the confusion, I stood with my 12-year-old sister, and my three-year-old brother, near the railway【C6】___\_, where a train for Germany waited.【C7】___\_families were allowed to board the train. Just before leaving, a woman traveling【C8】___\_approached us. "Ill take care of him," she told my sister, and【C9】___\_me onto the train as it left the station. The entire trip I【C10】___\_my mother. We arrived in Hamburg. Now that the woman had【C11】___\_Taurage she had no more use for me. I lived on the【C12】___\_like thousands of other children in that wartorn city. I survived 【C13】___\_stealing food. Then the American occupation troops arrived. One afternoon as I hid【C14】___\_in a mess tent in search of food, a huge hand lifted me up by the collar—an American soldier. I was【C15】___\_and I could see it upset him. "Its okay, kid," he said. He reached into his jacket and handed me a chocolate bar. I【C16】___\_it and took a small bite. I thought Id gone to heaven. The soldier took me and some other【C17】___\_children to an orphanage run by Red Cross. Fours years later I was transferred to an orphanage in America. 【C18】___\_a family who lived in Pennsylvania adopted me. Later I joined the Army, then attended college after the army and【C19】___\_a masters degree in clinical social work. I never did learn the soldier God sent to save my life, but I will remember his【C20】______forever.

【C1】

A．poor

B．bad

C．terrible

D．delicious

【C14】

A．frequently

B．finally

C．quickly

D．hopefully