55．A．But
B．Though C．Otherwise
D．Therefore
答案 36.B 37.A 38.D 39.C 40.B 41.A 42.B 43.D 44.A 45.C 46.C 47.B 48.A
49.D 50.A 51.C 52.B 53.C 54.D 55.A
Passage 16
(06·辽宁)
It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told me she wouldn’t need me
any more. I had just finished my four-hour work －___36___ up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the
floor and washing the dished. She was___37___ jeans and a sweater. Sitting at
the table I had just 38_______. a pile of papers spread around her. Her
husband’s___39___ was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were
trying to live as if it had___40___ happened. I felt sorry for her. but I also
felt a sense of___41___.
I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had___42___ an
unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just___43___ I had become
an expert at scraping(刮掉)dirt stuck to their wooden floor.___44___ that I had learned exactly how to
place toys on the girls’ beds. It was___45___ than that. For I felt I had
become a part of their___46___.
Freda stayed at home with the kids,___47___ I would often see her in the
morning___48___ them to school. And I’d be there when they___49___ home at
lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had___50___ them grow up. Now I was
fired, but the ___51___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___52___ relationship
with my clients(主顾). Who am I___53___
them? As a matter of fact, I’m ___54___ an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted___55___ of the family.
I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.