It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work
_______up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dishes. She was
_______jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just
_______A pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s
_______was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had
_______happened. I felt sorry for her, but I also felt a sense of
_______I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had
_______an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just
_______I had become an expert at scraping(刮掉) dirt stuck to their wooden floor,
_______that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was
________than that, for I felt I had become a part of their
________Freda stayed at home with the kids,
________I would often see her in the morning
________them to school. And I’d be there when they
________home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had
________them grow up. Now I was fired, but the
________thing was that I still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family.
I left Freda’s house that day, wondering about the
________of my relationship with my clients(主顾). Who am I
________them? As a matter of fact, I’m
________an employee—the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted
________of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.
| 【小题1】 | | A．stepping | B．coming | C．jumping | D．moving |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．hanging | B．making | C．wearing | D．changing |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．cleaned | B．washed | C．swept | D．brushed |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．already | B．seldom | C．never | D．yet |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．regret | B．surprise | C．fear | D．loss |
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| 【小题7】 | | A．started | B．developed | C．improved | D．broken |
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| 【小题10】 | | A．less | B．least | C．more | D．most |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．life | B．story | C．activity | D．experience |
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| 【小题13】 | | A．taking | B．bringing | C．meeting | D．calling |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．left | B．returned | C．went | D．marched |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．found | B．noticed | C．watched | D．realized |
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| 【小题16】 | | A．possible | B．great | C．proper | D．strange |
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| 【小题17】 | | A．meaning | B．nature | C．result | D．importance |
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| 【小题19】 | | A．hardly | B．certainly | C．probably | D．merely |
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| 【小题20】 | | A．member | B．person | C．relative | D．companion |
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