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          up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dishes. She was          jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just        . A pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s       was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had        happened. I felt sorry for her, but I also felt a sense of        .
I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had          an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just          I had become an expert at scraping(刮掉) dirt stuck to their wooden floor,             that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was          than that, for I felt I had become a part of their        .
Freda stayed at home with the kids,      I would often see her in the morning       them to school. And I’d be there when they        home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had        them grow up. Now I was fired, but the          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          of my relationship with my clients(主顾). Who am I          them? As a matter of fact, I’m          an employee—the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted     of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

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

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

A．cleaned B．washed C．swept D．brushed

A．duty B．money C．work D．pay

A．already B．seldom C．never D．yet

A．regret B．surprise C．fear D．loss

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

A．why B．what C．that D．which

A．but B．and C．or D．for

A．less B．least C．more D．most

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

A．as B．so C．since D．however

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

A．left B．returned C．went D．marched

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

A．possible B．great C．proper D．strange

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

A．for B．to C．with D．at

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

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