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____of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated____the law blindly favors biological parents. It’s also true of children who____for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can’t or won’t care for them but____to give up custody (监护) rights.
Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays doesn’t fit ____ of the descriptions, but her recent court victory could____help children who do. Kimberly has been the____of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge____that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have “no legal____”on her.
Shortly after____in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the____parents. Kimberly’s biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests____that the child wasn’t the Twiggs’ own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody____with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families____that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting____rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being____.
The decision to____Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉)__ __her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was____just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the____of children.

A．terrible B．sad C．true D．natural

A．but B．if C．when D．because

A．settle B．live C．suffer D．gather

A．have B．refuse C．stick D．fail

A．neither B．both C．either D．all

A．merely B．eventually C．successfully D．suddenly

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

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

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

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

A．biological B．own C．kind D．wrong

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

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

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

A．equal B．same C．visiting D．speaking

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

A．make B．leave C．give D．keep

A．by B．through C．on D．in

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

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