题目内容：

When I was 17 years old, I left my comfortable home in a wealthy Midwestern suburb to live as a foreign exchange student in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in a foreign country.  I      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. I     to wash my clothes by hand in the bathtub and      water was so costly, I trained myself to     my waist-length hair in less than five minutes.

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

To    to my stress, I 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 my     family. Of all the families in the city I lived, I was    with the ones who spoke the least (or worst) English.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11.A. impossibleB. hopeless  C. beneficial   D. strong

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. own        B. former    C. host     D. guest

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

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. stressful

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