【改编】Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to join my father, who’d moved there to find  better-paying work when I was three years old. He had a      at a restaurant and only visited us once every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But     , I didn’t stop to analyze the situation when I was       to leave . Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn       in a few weeks.
When I            in the US and started 8^th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was        a(n) foreign language I couldn’t understand. I       that life had subtitles（字幕）, like in foreign movies.
      was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always watching  my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the      thing was having to read newspaper.
But after almost seven months of        about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things. It just made my life worse. If I was going to        in this new concrete jungle, I had to  adapt. I began to learn English by reading newspaperson my own after       . After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers notice my      and moved me into a more modern English class. I could go to the storeand ask for things that I wanted to buy     any frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again because I didn’t hear      talk. I could understand people.

A．work B．friend C．job D．cook.

A．luckily B．eventually C．gradually D． honestly

A．attempting B．packing C．managing D．trying

A．English B．German C．French D．Chinese

A．got B．reached C． arrived D．entered

A．talking B．speaking C．telling D．saying

A．wished B．hoped C．expected D．wanted

A．Restaurant B．Home C．Hospital D．School

A．happiest B．strange C．worst D．most

A．complaining B．quarreling C．fighting D．discussing

A．live B．study C．survive D．continue

A．school B．work C．graduation D．meals

A．mistakes B．accent C．embarrassment D．progress

A．for B．without C．with D．in

A．foreign B．similar C．familiar D．native