阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，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。

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 － 1up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dished. She was 2jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just 3. a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s 4was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had 5happened. I felt sorry for her， but I also felt a sense of 6.

I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had 7an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just 8I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuck to their wooden floor, 9that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was  10than that, for I felt I had become a part of their 11.

Freda stayed at home with the kids, 12I would often see her in the morning 13

    them to school. And I’d be there when they 14home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had 15them grow up. Now I was fired, but the_16__ 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  17relationship with my clients（主顾）. Who am I 18them? As a matter of fact. I’m  19an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted 20of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

1.A. stepping       B. coming           C. jumping      D. moving

2.A. hanging        B. making           C. wearing      D. changing

3.A. cleaned        B. washed           C. swept            D. brushed

4.A. duty       B. money            C. work         D. pay

5.A. already        B. seldom           C. never            D. yet

6.A. regret     B. surprise     C. fear         D. loss

7.A. started        B. developed        C. improved     D. broken

8.A. why            B. what         C. that         D. which

9.A. but            B. and          C. or               D. for

10.A. less          B. least            C. more         D. most

11.A. life          B. story            C. activity         D. experience

12.A. as            B. so               C. since            D. however

13.A. taking        B. bringing     C. meeting      D. calling

14.A. left          B. returned     C. went         D. marched

15.A. found     B. noticed          C. watched      D. realized

16.A. possible      B. great            C. proper           D. strange

17.A. meaning       B. nature           C. result           D. importance

18.A. for           B. to               C. with         D .at

19.A. hardly        B. certainly        C. probably     D. merely

20.A. member        B. person           C. relative         D. companion

 It was after he got what he had desired           he realized it was not so important.

A. that     B. when         C. since            D. as

 I grew up in Africa.          At least I should say that I spent much of the first ten years of my life there.

A. and      B. or               C. so               D. but

 －I’m sorry I’m late. I got held up in the traffic on my way here.

    －          .

A. Don’t be late next time             B. You should be blamed

C. It doesn’t matter, I’m also late           D. Never mind. Come and sit down

 School children must be taught how to deal with dangerous          .

A. states       B. conditions           C. situations           D. positions

 It is said that the early European playing-cards          for entertainment and education.

A. were being designed                      B. have designed

C. have been designed                       D. were designed

 makes this shop different is that it offers more personal services.

A. What          B. Who          C. Whatever         D. Whoever

 I think it is necessary for my 19-year-old son to have his own mobile phone, for I sometimes want to make sure if he           home for dinner.

        A. come         B. comes            C. has come         D. will come

 People have always been curious           how living things on the earth exactly began.

        A. in               B. at               C. of                   D. about

 The father as well as his three children________ skating on the frozen river every Sunday afternoon in winter.

        A. is going     B. go               C. goes             D. are going