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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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