Dear Mummy，
   This last trip to India with you has brought home to me a few hard facts-facts that I wanted to avoid seeing for some time.As you well know，you and I have had a few arguments and several days of tension during the trip.I must admit sometimes I really do not know how to communicate to you what I really feel.Words seem to fail on both sides.That's why I am writing this letter.Perhaps it will be a bit easier. ①____
   As I approach my seventeenth year，I suddenly ask myself where I belong.I know this is the usual teenage identity crisis.You came to this country when you were slightly older than I am and married my father.You admired the American lifestyle and tried to be an American as much as you could.I am the daughter of you，a mother who is Indian，and a father who is American.Of course，I am American.Except for a few trips to India I have little to do with India outwardly.But I feel how much you would like me to become Indian sometimes.I cannot explain it with examples.But I feel it in my bones.The India that you never quite shake off comes back to you now and you want to see your daughter live it，at least partly. ②____ Yes，Mummy，I know I am wrapped up in many superficial things，things my friends indulge in and I can understand your need to protect me.But I am part of them and in order for me to be accepted by my friends，sometimes I need to do things which do not always please me either.I need their approval and I want to be like them sometimes.But your good intentions to teach me those good Indian things then come into disagreement.Although I dislike the superficiality of my friends，I cannot move back to your culture just because it is better for you or more ancient or deep. ③____
   My dearest mother，I cannot be protected by you.Forgive me if I remind you of something you related to me many times.You could not be protected by my grandparents （your parents） when you decided to embrace this culture along with my father. ④____ Nor can you protect me despite the fact that we are not separated by physical distance.Perhaps we are separated by something else and I suspect that is India.
   I have never written a letter like this before in my short life.I feel good about writing this and would like to hear what you have to say.Ma，perhaps you and I can still be friends in a way that you and your mother could not be.Let's try.I love you.
Yous，
Rita
（1）What can we learn from this letter？

C

C

A．Rita and her mother had a pleasant trip in India.
B．Rita always asks herself where she belongs.
C．Rita wants to be accepted by her friends.
D．Rita's mother allows her freedom to do as she wishes.
（2）This sentence "Let me live the life I am surrounded by and suffer as I wish." can be best placed at

B

B

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A．①
B．②
C．③
D．④
（3）What can we infer from the last paragraph？

C

C

A．Rita expects more protection from her mother.
B．Rita expects more Indian cultural influence from her mother.
C．Rita expects more communication and respect from her mother.
D．Rita expects more attention and care from her mother.