第二部分：阅读理解（第一节15小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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　　In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one  years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.

My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.

Then I got married with another dream building my family with a combination of adopted(收 养的) and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was Fantastic and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son 河南高中学业水平考试试题  http://www.yggk.net/xueye/henan/zhenti/