IV. 完形填空

I fell in love with reading when I was a child. Through reading, I developed a good ___1___ with my parents.

___2___ as a second-generation South Korean in America, I was raised in an environment in which my parents ___3___ to settle in American culture. My parents were awkward, strange and different. Their limitations as immigrants（移民） ___4___ me; as a child, I was alone and quiet. I grew up in a family where I was ___5___ to speak English. I wanted to ___6___ the depth of the books I read but the words ___7___ me, like my parents. I wasn''t able to change the situation ___8___ I was placed in, but I worked very hard. Every ___9___, I went to the library to check out new books. I would have ___10___ reading all the books by Friday afternoons. I became a better ___11___. Pretty soon, I was the