It is  1  secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents（养父母）than with the parents that nature dealt them. It is especially  2  of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated because the law blindly(盲目地) favors biological parents(亲生父母). It is also true of children who stay for years in foster（寄养）homes  3  biological parents who can’t or won’t care for them but  4  to give up custody（监护）rights.

       Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays  5  neither description, but her recent court victory could  6  children who have this kind of experience. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who  7  her and her biological parents, with whom she has never  8  . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can  9  with the only father she has ever known and that her biological parents have no legal right on her.

       Shortly after  10  in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were  11  switched（调换）and sent home with the   12  parents. Kimberly’s biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical test  13  that the child wasn’t their own daughter,  14  Kim was, thus leading to a custody battle with Robert Mays.

       In 1989, the two families  15  that Robert Mays would continue to have custody right with the biological parents getting  16  rights. Those right were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being  17  .

       The decision to leave Kimberly  18  Mr. Mays caused a heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue（起诉）on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was  19  a personal possession of her parents. Biological parents does not mean a complete  20  that cancels（取消）all the rights of the children.

1．A．not                       B．no                       C．a                        D．the

2．A．terrible                  B．true                     C．sad                     D．natural

3．A．for                       B．because               C．because of           D．as

4．A．have                     B．stick                   C．want                   D．refuse

2,4,6

5．A．fits                       B．knows                 C．likes                    D．supports

6．A．save                     B．help                    C．trouble                D．surprise

7．A．bore                     B．protected             C．grew                   D．raised

8．A．played                   B．thought               C．lived                   D．met

9．A．remain                  B．leave                  C．share                  D．talk

10．A．birth                   B．operation             C．treatment             D．illness

11．A．mistakenly           B．purposefully         C．hopefully             D．additionally

12．A．own                    B．wrong                 C．bad                     D．other

13．A．explained             B．said                     C．showed               D．announced

14．A．therefore             B．but                      C．or                       D．so

15．A．quarreled             B．thought               C．prepared              D．agreed

16．A．visiting                B．equal                   C．watching             D．biological

17．A．wounded            B．hidden                 C．forbidden            D．hurt

18．A．with                    B．on                       C．by                      D．in

19．A．more than            B．just                     C．no more than       D．rather than

20．A．control              B．order                   C．belong               D．ownership