5. 【2011·江西八校联考】 完形填空

It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That's especially __36__ of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated __37__ the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who __38__ for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but __39__ to give up custody (监护) rights.    　

Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays __40__ neither description, but her recent court victory could __41__ help children who do. Kimberly has been the __42__ of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge __43__ that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal __44__" on her.    　

Shortly after __45__ in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the __46__ parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests __47__ that the child wasn't the Twiggs' own daughter, but Kim only was, thus leading to a custody __48__ with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families __49__ that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting __50__ rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being __51__.    　

The decision to __52__ Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) __53__ her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was __54__ just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the __55__ of children.

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

37.A. but       B. if       C. when          D. because

38.A. settle        B. live           C. suffer      D. gather

39.A. have        B. refuse   C. stick      D. fail

40.A. likes    B. gives           C. fits      D. knows

41.A. actually     B. eventually       C. successfully  D. abruptly

42.A. victim        B. object       C. sacrifice      D. teenager

43.A. ruled        B. believed   C. ordered  D. indicated

44.A. expectation    B. action   C. effect          D. claim

45.A. birth        B. judgment       C. operation      D. school

46.A. biological    B. own           C. kind      D. wrong

47.A. examined        B. explained       C. decided      D. showed

48.A. battle            B. right           C. agreement  D. decision

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

50.A. equal        B. same       C. visiting      D. speaking 

51.A. harmed            B. forbidden       C. wounded      D. hidden

52.A. make        B. leave       C. give          D. keep

53.A. by            B. through       C. on      D. in 

54.A. more than    B. no more than   C. not more than  D. less than

55.A. freedom    B. happiness       C. rights          D. ideas

36~40 CDCBC   41~45 BBADA     46~50 DDACC   51~55 ABCAC