1. (2023高一上·云南期末) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C和  D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

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

Born as a second-generation South Korean in America, I was raised in an environment in which my parents1to settle in American culture. My parents were awkward (尴尬的，笨拙的), strange and different. Their limitations as immigrants(移民) 2 me. As a child, I was alone and quiet. I grew up in a family 3 I was forbidden to speak English. I wanted to 4 the depth of the books I read but the words 5me, like my parents. I wasn't able to change the situation which I was placed in,6 I worked very hard. Every week, I went to the library to check out new books. I would have 7 reading all the books by Friday afternoons. I became a better reader. Pretty soon, I was the 8 reader in the class. People would look at me 9 amazement as they saw me read 500-page books in only a few days. But I believe the greatest 10 was reading every night to my parents. Every evening, we 11 together in our living room, and I read to them. Slowly but surely, our 12 grew. My parents can communicate with others 13; for me, grammar quizzes became a piece of cake.

Today I'm proud to have Asian-American parents who were 14 enough to learn English from a young boy and wise enough to 15 their son to read at a young age.