Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.More than 25 years ago, a train took Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. There, he 【小题1】 (bring) up by an Australian family and flew to Tasmania, Australia with them.
【小题2】 he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn’t help but wonder about his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country 【小题3】 (prove) to be impossible.
Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years 【小题4】 (search) for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across 【小题5】 familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district 【小题6】 a bird’s-eye view. He thought “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”— and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain” — and there it was. Everything just started to match.
When he stood in front of the house 【小题7】 he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in the entrance. “There’s something about me,” he thought — and it took him a few seconds but he finally remembered 【小题8】 she used to look like.
In an interview Brierley says, “My mother looked so much 【小题9】 (short) than I remembered. But she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion (核聚变). I just didn’t know what to say, 【小题10】 I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”
