题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

When he was 18 years old, the boy left his comfortable home in a wealthy Midwestern suburb to live as a foreign exchange student in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in a foreign country. He        in an apartment with no elevators, no dishwashers and one washer for 300      . The tile (瓷砖) floors were always      and the rainy winter days there seemed endless. He      to wash his clothes by hand in the bathtub and      water was so costly,he trained himself to      his waist-length hair in less than five minutes.

At that time there were no cell phones and the Internet didn’t exist. So for six months he had no       at all with his family or friends in the US. He had no relatives there so he      to face the fact that his      to adapt and create a life for      ,was one hundred percent up to me. At age seventeen his need for friends was      and not knowing a soul was, needless to say, a bit stressful.

To      to his stress, he didn’t speak the      and had no familiarity with the monetary(货币的) system nor the transportation system. One more      that created stress was his     family. Of all the families in the city he lived, he was      with the ones who spoke the least (or worst) English.

Living abroad and developing      in a foreign language required persistence and determination. He made many mistakes      the way. Now he’s transformed (转变) his      memories into his medals of honor (荣誉勋章). They’re the treasured stories that offer wisdom, provide him with insights into friends and family and provide him with the      that he can surpass future challenges.

1.A. lived         B.moved          C. turned           D. took

2.A. places        B. names          C. families         D.children

3.A. warm          B. empty          C. tidy             D. cold

4.A. tried         B. asked          C. learned          D. forced

5.A. since         B.although        C. unless           D. once

6.A. arrange       B. comb           C.wash              D. adopt

7.A. contact       B. quarrel     C. letter           D. chance

8.A. turned        B. needed         C. pretended        D. stopped

9.A. imagination   B.question        C.  ability         D. career

10.A. none         B. other          C. another          D. himself

11.A. impossible  B.strong          C. beneficial      D. hopeless

12.A. adapt       B. apply        C. add              D. reduce

13.A. truth        B. language     C. fact             D. word

14.A. scene        B. shortage     C. fault            D. challenge

15.A. host         B. former       C.own             D. guest

16.A. occupied  B. chosen       C. compared         D. housed

17.A. fluency     B. trouble      C. habit           D. fame

18.A. over        B. along          C. in               D. during

19.A. harmful     B. beautiful      C. hopeful          D. hard

20.A. advantage   B. confidence     C. promise          D. future