___ 8 years since I left my hometown.
A.It was
B. It is
C. There is
D. There was
A.It was
B. It is
C. There is
D. There was
A.until
B.before
C.when
D.since
A.adopted
B.acquired
C.adapted
D.admitted
It was strange to feel my past life almost __6__ away as I entered this brand-new phase of my life. I didn’t know how to __7__ myself during my first couple of months at Penn because everything that defined me was back in California. I felt __8__ from my college friends because they only knew the college me. How could they really know me without knowing what Mission Boulevard looked like late at night with the Niles hills in the background? How could they know me without knowing the friends who I had __9__ to Japan with or the friends I had gone to school with since kindergarten? How could they know me if they hadn’t met my family? How could they know me, or I them, if we didn’t know one another’s __10__ experiences?
A. drop B. journeyed C. unique D. define
E. complex F. realizing G. disconnected H. self-defining
I. drifted J. lying K. transition L. adjusted
M. fast-moving N. transported O. lack
A. Or
B. So
C. But
D. Since
A.when
B.as
C.while
D.since