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问题     Language barriers present a variety of challenges for children of any age. In Houston a lone, bilingual education programs have helped many grade-school students【S1】______the trials that accompany not being able to speak English.
    In the past, such vital curriculum was not always readily【S2】______for children who needed it. One person who experienced the【S3】______of school life without a bilingual program was UH education professor Yolanda Padr6n.
    As a child, Padr6n and her family moved from Cuba to the United States. Settling in Land over, Mass., she was placed into elementary school, but had no working【S4】______of English. With that, she found herself at a【S5】______disadvantage.
    "When I came here, I was in the fifth grade, but because I didn’t speak English, they put me back a year," she said. "We lived there for about six months before we moved to Houston. When I came here, I still didn’t speak English, so I was placed back another grade. At the time, that was the【S6】______on how to deal with children who didn’t speak the language."
    Despite the awkwardness of being placed back two grade levels, Padron【S7】______some much needed attention from concerned teachers. After being【S8】______, it was learned that she was on par with other students her【S9】______age despite not knowing English. By the eighth grade, Padron was【S10】______able to join students in her peer group.

[A] little                    [F] response                       [K] difficulties
[B] major                     [G] own                            [L] knowledge
[C] impossible                [H] happiness                      [M] available
[D] tested                    [I] lost                           [N] basically
[E] finally                   [J] received                       [O] overcome [br] 【S2】

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答案 M

解析 空所在位置决定所填词应能被readily修饰。空所在句概括出过去的情况,该段第二句举出 Yolanda Padron的例子,因此该句中的without a bilingual program就和空格所在句意思一致,其中such vital curriculum指的就是a bilingual program,因此空应填available。not always readily available和without对应。
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