完形填空South Carolina is my home state and I am the aunt, granddaughter, daughter, and sister of Baptis

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South Carolina is my home state and I am the aunt, granddaughter, daughter, and sister of Baptist ministers(牧师). The church was a center of Black children's social ___16___ and caring Black adults were buffers(缓冲) against the segregated(种族隔离的) and hostile outside world that told us we weren't ___17___. But our parents said it wasn't so, our teachers said it wasn't so, and our ministers said it wasn't so. The ___18___ of my childhood was clear: let no man or woman ___19___ on you, and look down on no man or woman.
We couldn't play in public playgrounds or sit at drugstore lunch counters and ___20___ a Coke，so Daddy built a playground and canteen behind the church. In fact, whenever he saw a need, he tried to ___21___. There were no Black homes for the aged in Bennestsville, so he began one across the street for which he and Mama and we children cooked and ___22___ and cleaned.
We learned early what our parents and extended community “parents” valued. Children were ___23___—not by sermonizing(说教), but by personal example—that ___24___ was too lowly to do. I remember a debate my parents had when I was eight or nine as for ____25____ I was too young to go with my older brother, Harry，to help clean the bed and bedsores of a very sick，poor woman. I went and learned just how much the ____26____ helping hands and kindness can mean to a person in need.
The adults in our churches and community made children feel ____27____ and important. They took time and paid attention to us. They tried to find ways to keep us busy. And ____28____ life was often hard and resources ____29____，we always knew who we were and that the ____30____ of our worth was inside our heads and hearts and not outside in our possessions or on our backs. We were told that the ____31____ had a lot of problems; that Black people had an extra lot of problems; but that we were able and ____32____ to struggle and change them; that being poor was no ____33____ for not achieving; and that extra intellectual and material gifts brought ____34____ them the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less ____35____．
16. A. attitude B. existence C. background D. media
17. A. friendly B. powerful C. important D. intelligent
18. A. advantage B. vision C. direction D. message
19. A. come down B. look down C. catch up D. give up
20. A. order B. share C. make D. find
21. A. research B. reply C. respond D. reflect
22. A. played B. ate C. helped D. served
23. A. rewarded B. disciplined C. taught D. assessed
24. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
25. A. why B. whether C. where D. how
26. A. greatest B. smallest C. strongest D. weakest
27. A. impressed B. accomplished C. valued D. protected
28. A. since B. unless C. before D. while
29. A. scarce B. precious C. necessary D. available
30. A. security B. defense C. description D. measure
31. A. world B. community C. people D. church
32. A. contented B. obliged C. relieved D. delighted
33. A. condition B. exception C. reason D. excuse
34. A. for B. to C. with D. in
35. A. fortunate B. smart C. wealthy D. kind
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