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In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n)
1 at Mr. Breen's fruit shop.The
fruit shop did
2 business. Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood,
3 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr. Breen
4 them all by name and they
sometimes even had their order already made up, always
5 me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly
long-standing customers, and I
6 they must have stayed faithful to him
7 he had promised to sell good
quality
8 . He had a way with them -I had to
9 that. He called every woman"madam" for a start,
10 those who clearly were not, but when he
11 it, it did not sound like flattery (奉承). It just sounded
12 in an
old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter
13 . If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few
14 about the weather,
15 he did, he would ask about their families or make
16 , always cutting his cloth
17 his
customers. Whatever their bills came to, he
18 gave them back the few odd pence (零钱), and I am sure they
thought he was very generous (慷慨). But I thought he was the opposite. He never
19 anything away. He was
always looking for
20 for nothing.
( )1. A. operator ( )2. A. good ( )3. A. so ( )4. A. sold ( )5. A. making ( )6. A. wish ( )7. A. when ( )8. A. food ( )9. A. admit ( )10. A. yet ( )11. A. told ( )12. A. serious ( )13. A. as well ( )14. A. sayings ( )15. A. and then ( )16. A. preparations ( )17. A. according to ( )18. A. never ( )19. A. took ( )20. A. something |
B. assistant B. poor B. when B. knew B. letting B. insist B. if B. fruit B. expect B. only B. said B. strange B. as usual B. questions B. and so B. jokes B. due to B. ever B. moved B. anything |
C. waiter C. big C. therefore C. gave C. getting C. declare C. because C. vegetables C. announce C. just C. spoke C. polite C. either C. words C. even if C. repairs C. instead of C. seldom C. threw C. somebody |
D. secretary D. usual D. but D. sent D. keeping D. suppose D. though D. drink D. promise D. even D. talked D. familiar D. also D. speeches D. but if D. friends D. up to D. always D. turned . D. anybody |