阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n)     1at Mr. Breen’s fruit shop .The fruit shop did     2business . Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood,    3he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr. Breen     4them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always      5me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly long-standing customers, and I     6they must have stayed faithful to him    7he had promised to sell good quality      8. He had a way with them —I had to    9that. He called every woman “madam” for a start ,    10those who clearly were not, but when he      11it , it did not sound like flattery (奉承). It just sounded      12in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter      13. If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few     14about the weather,     15he did , he would ask about their families or make     16, always cutting his cloth     17his customers . Whatever their bills came to , he      18gave 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     19anything away. He was always looking for      20for nothing.

1.A．operator         B．assistant      C．waiter         D．secretary

2.A．good             B．poor           C．big            D．usual

3.A．so               B．when           C．therefore      D．but

4.A．sold             B．knew           C．gave           D．sent

5.A．making           B．letting        C．getting        D．keeping

6.A．wish             B．insist         C．declare        D．suppose

7.A．when             B．if             C．because        D．though

8.A．food             B．fruit          C．vegetables     D．drink

9.A．admit            B．expect         C．announce       D．promise

10.A．yet             B．only           C．just           D．even

11.A．told            B．said           C．spoke          D．talked

12.A．serious         B．strange        C．polite         D．familiar

13.A．as well         B．as usual       C．either         D．also

14.A．sayings         B．questions      C．words          D．speeches

15.A．and then        B．and so         C．even if        D．but if

16.A．preparations    B．jokes          C．repairs        D．friends

17.A．according to    B．due to         C．instead of     D．up to

18.A．never           B．ever           C．seldom         D．always

19.A．took            B．moved          C．threw          D．turned .

20.A．something       B．anything       C．somebody       D．anybody