题目内容：

    My life wouldn't be so wonderful without my parents. Every time I look at them or even think of them, I am very ______.

Our native country was Vietnam, but, to ______ the war, we had to leave our home and all our ______ and go on a long boat journey to America. I was two years old and the youngest of seven children.

This journey was not ______ for my parents, but throughout they thought of their children first. I was even told that they once ate only apple peels to ______ the fruit part for me. This was special because at that time many children were ______ by their parents because of the war.

Our journey to America was not the last of our ______. We were also faced with starting a life in America with nothing. My parents' strong ______ to give their children a good life was what has taken us where we are today. Of course, our beginning years were hard. We lived on just enough food bought with food stamps, wore old clothes and played with toys bought at second­hand shops. ______ almost everything we had was bought at second­hand shops, we were ______ because our life was really peaceful.

My parents ______ very hard to build a better life. I will always ______ how early they got up in the morning. After a few years my dad got a degree in business and then he got a(n) ______. Slowly, our living status began to ______. My parents bought a car and ______ they saved up enough money to buy a house; this was the true sign of my parents' ______.

Today we moved out of the apartment, ______ all the hard times and starting our new ______. We really live very ______ and my parents' greatest achievement is that they have ______ that nothing is impossible.

1.A. honorable B. admirable C. grateful D. powerful

2.A. prevent B. escape C. end D. stop

3.A. memories B. friends C. colleagues D. belongings

4.A. easy B. possible C. long D. dangerous

5.A. demand B. spare C. store D. find

6.A. adopted B. abandoned C. raised D. protected

7.A. struggles B. worry C. burdens D. pain

8.A. decision B. ability C. determination D. patience

9.A. Because B. Since C. Unless D. While

10.A. cautious B. happy C. nervous D. crazy

11.A. thought B. expected C. fought D. worked

12.A. cherish B. remember C. enjoy D. understand

13.A. promotion B. substitute C. status D. partner

14.A. follow B. appear C. continue D. rise

15.A. immediately B. obviously C. gradually D. suddenly

16.A. challenge B. success C. hope D. cooperation

17.A. falling B. carrying C. leaving D. forgetting

18.A. education B. family C. life D. career

19.A. confidently B. lonely C. independently D. comfortably

20.A. proven B. described C. declared D. realized