阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Brother Michael and Chris were born in the early 1960s and grew up in a black neighborhood in Richmond, California. Both boys were        in the primary school and brought home mostly A’s on their report cards.
But in a black family with eight children, money was always       , so the two growing boys often went       . They turned to stealing. They stole cookies from the grocery store and bread from the       . They even stole money from their parents to feed.
At the end of his first year in high school, Chris received three A’s and        F’s on his report card --- the first time he had        anything in school. Because Kennedy High School only allowed three failures        four years, one more F and Chris would be kicked out of school. That’s when he made up his mind to       .
Chris made every effort to become        in school. After Chris graduated from college, he worked as a prosecutor(检察官),        criminals, drug dealers, and gang members. Today Chris is famous as one of the        prosecutors in the trial of the century, the O.J. Simpson trial!
That decision to change took him in an entirely        direction from his brother Michael, who        changing his bad behavior. After high school, Michael continued his anti-social       ---fighting in the streets, taking        and stealing. At the age of 42, Michael Darden died from AIDS.
This story        us that what we become is determined by the        we make. We can choose to get        or we can choose to get worse. Chris changed. He changed from being a criminal to prosecuting criminals. His brother Michael, on the other hand, was changed. He was changed by        drugs…and finally, he was changed by a deadly disease. Chris made the right choices. He made the changes in his life that helped him        his great dreams.

A．well- behaved B．well-dressed C．well-known D．well- informed

A．plentiful B．loose C．common D．tight

A．mad B．wrong C．hungry D．bad

A．chemist’s B．baker’s C．doctor’s D．barber’s

A．two B．three C．four D．five

A．obtained B．failed C．passed D．missed

A．beyond B．by C．over D．above

A．steal B．respond C．stand D．change

A．outstanding B．friendly C．powerful D．outgoing

A．treating B．saving C．questioning D．punishing

A．leading B．working C．acting D．performing

A．similar B．different C．new D．strange

A．preferred B．resisted C．admitted D．appreciated

A．habits B．signs C．behaviors D．manners

A．drugs B．actions C．buses D．pills

A．persuades B．warns C．convinces D．wishes

A．choices B．friends C．promises D．efforts

A．taller B．cleaner C．happier D．better

A．illegal B．useful C．harmless D．lawful

A．destroy B．form C．accomplish D．approach