FULL HOUSE
Walk into the ____1____ of Anne Belles and her husband, and you’ll see kids everywhere — there are 30 boys in this crowded house and Anne Belles is their mom. Belles has wanted to ____2____ children since she was a kid. “I was touched by a musical based on the Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist (《雾都孤儿》). I told my mom, ‘That’s what I want to do. I want to give protection and care to orphans (孤儿).’”
Anne’s boys ____3____ in age from 3 to 25. All of them are ____4____ in some way. “They each have special needs — physically, emotionally, or at school,” says Belles. She doesn’t focus on what her kids can’t do, only on what they can. In an interesting twist, thirteen of her ____5____ are going to be in a local theater’s production of Oliver!
Raising 30 boys is no ____6____ task. Every day, a small army of childcare workers, nurses, and volunteers comes into help cook, clean, and take care of health needs.
The family receives $26,000 a month from the government, and has some ____7____ from a family business. All the money is spent on the children; having new clothes and fancy cars isn’t ____8____ to Belles.
How do the kids feel? Says 17-year-old Anthony, “The family is always there whenever I need something… Under all this chaos (杂乱), I feel like I am ____9____.”
“This was my dream. And everything about what I’m doing was everything I wanted to happen in my life,” says Anne Belles. “So, absolutely no _____10_____; this is perfect. I couldn’t ask for it to be better — maybe a bigger house, you know, would be nice.”
1. A. classroom B. home C. factory D. office
2. A. educate B. greet C. help D. manage
3. A. range B. result C. increase D. freeze
4. A. warned B. ignored C. threatened D. challenged
5. A. volunteers B. workers C. boys D. nurses
6. A. main B. small C. joyful D. familiar
7. A. income B. fees C. programmes D. permission
8. A. extra B. important C. effective D. enough
9. A. cured B. needed C. loved D. found
10. A. choice B. extremes C. hope D. regrets
【答案】1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. D
