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It was a bright spring afternoon when Fieda 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 dishes. She was 37   jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just 38   . a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’  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 48   them 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 tired, but the  51 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 52    of my 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.
36.A.stepping         B.coming                    C.jumping              D.moving
37.A.hanging              B.making                    C.wearing                   D.changing
38.A.cleaned              B.washed               C.swept                      D.brushed
39.A.duty                   B.money                     C.work                       D.pay
40.A.already               B.seldom                    C.never                      D.yet
41.A.regret                 B.surprise                   C.fear                         D.loss
42.A.started                B.developed           C.improved            D.broken
43.A.why                     B.what                       C.that                         D.which
44.A.but                     B.and                         C.or                           D.for
45.A.less                    B.least                        C.more                       D.most
46.A.life                     B.story                       C.activity                    D.experience
47.A.as                       B.so                           C.since                       D.however
48.A.taking                 B.bringing                    C.meeting                   D.calling
49.A.left                     B.returned                  C.went                       D.marched
50.A.found                 B.noticed                    C.watched                   D.realized
51.A.possible         B.great                      C.proper                     D.strange
52.A.meaning               B.nature                     C.result                      D.importance
53.A.for                  B.to                        C.with                        D.at
54.A.hardly            B.certainly                C.probably                  D.merely
55.A.member         B.person                    C.relative             D.companion

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When we got back home and Douglas started his things, I could not believe it. All of his 40 were the same, all white shirts and dark blue shorts.
“How can you only one kind of clothes?” I asked him.
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“Well we don’t wear uniforms at our . You’re going to look pretty funny if you come to school in a jacket and tie(领带).
Douglas looked worried. , I felt bad. I had not meant(打算) to hurt him. After all, it was not easy to come to live with some family for a year. Then and there I decided that I was going to my cousin and try to make this as good a year as possible for him.”

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A.meet B.teach C.help D.ask

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A.look at B.look for C.look after D.look up

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I it. As I jumped, my foot caught on the top of the fence. I went! But I landed on my backside. I to laugh off the accident. But then I something moving under me. Just then I saw what seemed like hundreds of bees flying towards me. I had a beehive! I jumped and as fast as I could. But bees flew faster than I ran. At that moment, all the kids at the camp ran after me, too. What a(an) situation I was in!
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