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[填空题]I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us ____36____ chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell____37____. I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $56. I ____38____ the countryside for some place I could rent for the ____39____ possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road ____40____ the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was ____41____ , full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner ,rented it, and ____42____ a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me, ____43____ slowly, they started teaching me the ____44____ of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began ____45____ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a ____46____ American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of ____47____ .
What I had
A. A.off
B.apart
C.over
D.out