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限时训练 第一部分 完形填空 I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming. After my dad’s service in World War II, he was 36 again to fight during the Korean War, and when he returned home, he couldn’t drink 37 to numb (麻痹) his terrible memories. He struggled to 38 for his growing family. On our occasional trips to town, I 39 out boxfuls of books from the library. When I opened a book, I could 40 myself in unknown places — where children weren’t hungry and were in 41 of little. When I wasn’t daydreaming, my 42 was the life I shared with my brothers and sisters. At night I hid under the covers 43 to silence the sounds of life in an alcoholic home. Classmates asked 44 we didn’t have electricity or a telephone. I suppose my explanations were 45 more than lies, but the stories I told improved 46 every book I read. Starting at a very young age, my siblings (兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money — to put more food on the family table. We | 
