A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of __41__.
“Do you know __42__ you and I are?” she asked. __43__ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman __44__ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, __45__ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?”“Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) __46__.”“We don’t __47__ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story __48__ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What __49__ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ___50___ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen ___51__ in mid-air. She looked up __52__ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your ___53__?” Coolly, I heard myself ___54__, “I have a continuing program of research in the
laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have __55__ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the __56__ are
in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of __57__ in the clerk’s voice as she __58__ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was __59__ by my lab assistants — ages 1
3, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great __60__.
| 小题1: | | A．surprise | B．anxiety | C．anger | D．excitement |
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| 小题3: | | A．When | B．As | C．Before | D．Since |
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| 小题5: | | A．nervous | B．sure | C．anxious | D．uncertain |
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| 小题6: | | A．mother | B．worker | C．teacher | D．doctor |
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| 小题7: | | A．think | B．list | C．expect | D．give |
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| 小题8: | | A．since | B．unless | C．until | D．when |
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小题9:
| A．got | B．caused | C．permit | D．made |
| 小题10: | | A．researcher | B．manager | C．expert | D．scholar |
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| 小题11: | | A．dropped | B．floated | C．frozen | D．broke |
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| 小题12: | | A．so that | B．even though | C．as though | D．because of |
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| 小题13: | | A．family | B．subject | C．study | D．field |
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| 小题14: | | A．words | B．reply | C．shout | D．whisper |
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| 小题16: | | A．rewards | B．awards | C．profits | D．benefits |
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小题17: A. interest B. respect C. doubt D fear
| 小题18: | | A．explained | B．passed | C．completed | D．filled |
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| 小题19: | | A．accepted | B．greeted | C．recognized | D．refused |
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| 小题20: | | A．person | B．award | C．career | D．business |
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