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完形填空。
        It`s fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while
on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito bites. Right before __ 1__
Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandmother __ 2 __ me of the behaviour of the native mosquitoes
around the __ 3__ like me. She said. “There`s an old saying---the __4 __ you stay away from the
motherland, the sweeter you blood __5__ to the mosquitoes.” Not __ 6 __ it, I replied, “ Grandma, that`s
just an old wives` tale!”        
        Well, less than a week after my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted with a ___7 __ of mosquito
bites. I took many measures to keep myself from being __ 8 __, but they all proved useless.
        Late one night in my cousin`s home, I couldn`t bear the __ 9__ of the bites. Hoping to find some
comfort, I __ 10__ my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being
__ 11 __, she said, “ There is nothing you can do. Go back to sleep.” With a few turns, she slept again.
Enviously(嫉妒地) watching her sleep, I hoped a big mosquito would __ 12 __ on her face. However, the
mosquitoes would just lightly danced around her forehead and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed,
I ran to others` rooms, only to find they were all sleeping __ 13 __ as the same thing occurred again and
again.
        From those bites, I came to __ 14__ my grandma`s silly tale. From then on, I`ve always tried to keep
a(an) __15 __ mind about those strange old wives` tales because they do have truth to them.
(      )1. A. leaving  
(      )2. A. persuaded
(      )3. A. students
(      )4. A. earlier  
(      )5. A. grows    
(      )6. A. expecting
(      )7. A. shade    
(      )8. A. touched  
(      )9. A. noise    
(      )10. A. woke up
(      )11. A. blamed  
(      )12. A. land    
(      )13. A. joyfully
(      )14. A. tell    
(      )15. A. open    
B. passing     
B. reminded  
B. friends   
B. longer   
B. goes    
B. understanding
B. pile        
B. bitten      
B. hit        
B. shouted at  
B. interrupted
B. fly      
B. anxiously  
B. know    
B. active      
C. visiting  
C. warned    
C. passengers
C. sooner    
C. flows      
C. recognizing
C. cloud      
C. defeated  
C. pain      
C. looked at  
C.moved      
C. fall      
C. soundlessly
C. remember  
C. clear      
D. finding  
D. informed  
D. visitors  
D. later    
D. remains  
D. believing
D. blanket  
D. discovered
D. effect    
D. dropped on
D. frightened
D. wait      
D. worriedly
D. accept    
D. honest    
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