完形填空。
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  1  up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the
dished. She was  2  jeans and a sweater. Sitting at the table I had just  3  .  a pile of papers spread around
her. Her husband’a  4  was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had
  5  happened. I felt sorry for her. but I also felt a sense of  6  .
I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had  7  an unexpected relationship with the family.
It was not just  8  I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuct to their wooden floor.  9  that I
had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’beds.  It was 10 than that. For I felt I had become a
part of their 11  .
Freda stayed at home with the kids, 12 I would often see her in the morning 13 them to school.  And
I’d be there when they 14  home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had 15 them grow up.  Now
I was fired, but the 16  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 17 relationship with my clients（主顾. Who am I 18  them? As a matter of fact. I’m 19 an employee－the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted 20 
of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

(     )1. A. stepping  (     )2. A. hanging (     )3. A. cleaned   (     )4. A. duty    (     )5. A. already (     )6. A. regret   (     )7. A. started  (     )8. A. why    (     )9. A. but    (     )10. A. less   (     )11. A. life   (     )12. A. as    (     )13. A. taking  (     )14. A. left   (     )15. A. found   (     )16. A. possible (     )17. A. meaning  (     )18. A. for    (     )19. A. hardly  (     )20. A. member

B. coming    B. making    B. washed    B. money    B. seldom    B. surprise   B. developed   B. what      B. and      B. least    B. story    B. so       B. bringing   B. returned   B. noticed    B. great     B. nature    B. to       B. certainly   B. person

C. jumping   C. wearing   C. swept    C. work     C. never    C. fear     C. improved   C. that     C. or      C. more     C. activity   C. since    C. meeting   C. went     C. watched   C. proper    C. result    C. with     C. probably   C. relative

D. moving             D. changing           D. brushed            D. pay                D. yet                D. loss               D. broken             D. which              D. for                D. most               D. experience         D. however            D. calling            D. marched            D. realized           D. strange            D. importance         D. at                 D. merely             D. companion

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