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 -
36 up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dished. She was
37 jeans and a sweater. Sitting at the table I had just
38 a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s
39 was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had
40 happened. I felt sorry for her, but I also felt a sense of
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I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had
42 an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just
43 I had become an expert at scraping(刮掉)dirt stuck to their wooden floor.
44 that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was
45 than that, for I felt I had become a part of their
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Freda stayed at home with the kids,
47 I would often see her in the morning
48them to school. And I’d be there when they
49 home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had
50 them grow up. Now I was fired, but the
51 thing was that I still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family.
I left Freda’s
52 relationship with my clients(主顾). Who am I
53 them? As a matter of fact. I’m
54 an employee - the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted
55 of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.
小题1: | A.moving | B.coming | C.jumping | D.stepping |
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小题2: | A.hanging | B.making | C.changing | D.wearing |
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小题3: | A.washed | B.cleaned | C.swept | D.brushed |
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小题5: | A.never | B.seldom | C.already | D.yet |
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小题6: | A.loss | B.surprise | C.fear | D.regret |
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小题7: | A.started | B.improved | C.developed | D.broken |
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小题8: | A.why | B.what | C.that | D.which |
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小题10: | A.less | B.more | C.least | D.most |
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小题11: | A.story | B.life | 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.marched | C.went | D.returned |
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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.result | C.nature | D.importance |
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小题19: | A.merely | B.certainly | C.probably | D.hardly |
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小题20: | A.member | B.person | C.relative | D.companion |
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