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　　newspapers, babysat, and cleaned other people’s houses.

　　Mom grew vegetables, raised chickens, and baked bread, so we seldom went hungry, even when supper was only a pot of beans.

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　　my real hunger wasn’t for food — it was a hunger for a better life. It was a hunger for knowledge about the world

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　　our simple existence. It was a hunger to prove Dad

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　　when he told us we would never amount to anything.

　　Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much

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　　than our parents expected

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　　us. We devoured (如饥似渴地吸取) the offerings of the public schools because we realized that

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　　would be our steppingstone into a brighter future.

　　Now I’m

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　　of the accomplishments of my siblings: an art professor; a well-known doctor; plus business owners. And me, I’m the keeper of the family stores. I’ll never know if we would have so many accumulated successes if we had not known

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　　as children. But this I do know: I believe it can be a good thing.

　　1. A. drafted

　　B. dismissed

　　C. invited

　　D. involved

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