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
41 .
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
46 .
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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