完形填空。
Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them
about it till I'd got one.
I had seen an agency (中介机构) advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the
1 in search of it. I
was wildly excited, and as
2 as if I were going on the stage. Finding the
3 quite easily, I ran breathlessly
through a door which said"Enter without knocking, if you please."
The simple atmosphere of the office
4 me. The woman looked carefully at me
5 through her glasses,
and then
6 me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather
7 She wondered
why I was looking for this sort of
8 I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be
9 to get
a job without
10 I wondered whether I ought to leave,
11 the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say:
"
12 , I've got someone in the
13 at this very moment who might
14 ." She wrote down a
15 , and held
it out to me, saying: "Ring up this lady. She wants a
16 immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people."
"Oh yes," said I
17 having cooked for more than four in my life. I
18 her again and again, and rushed
out to the
19 telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said
confidently that I was just what she was looking for.
I spent the next few hours
20 cook books.
( )1. A. bed ( )2. A. proud ( )3. A. family ( )4. A. calmed ( )5. A. as usual ( )6. A. advised ( )7. A. encouraged ( )8. A. place ( )9. A. difficult ( )10. A. ability ( )11. A. after ( )12. A. Above all ( )13. A. family ( )14. A. hire ( )15. A. letter ( )16. A. cook ( )17. A. almost ( )18. A. answered ( )19. A. outside ( )20. A. borrowing |
B house B. please B. door B. excited B. for a while B. examined B. dissatisfied B. job B. helpless B. experience B. since B. As a matter of fact B. house B. accept B. name B. help B. never B. promised B. local B. buying |
C. agency C. nervous C. place C. frightened C. in a minute C. informed C. hopeless C. advice C. possible C. knowledge C. until C. As a result C. office C. suit C. note C. teacher C. nearly C. thanked C. closest C. reading |
D. office D. worried D. stage D. disturbed D. once again D. questioned D. pleased D. help D. unusual D. study D. when D. In spite of that D. restaurant D. offer D. number D. secretary D. really D. told D. nearest D. writing |