词汇应用(每小题1分，共12分)
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I have lived in Beijing all my life. I will tell you about my life today and in the past. My family lived in a tiny house in the past. There _____(be) no electric lights, only candles. My father was a postman, and he often _______(work) twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She ______(not go ) out to work. There were five _____ (child) in my family and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
I remember the family meals. The food was simple. We could only eat meat_____(one) or twice a year. I _______ (not send) to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because I was a girl.
Today, life______(change). Families have got ________(small) than they were in the past. Most people only have one child! The role of women has changed too. My daughter is
Really _____ (luck) .She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting _______(marry). I’m happy to see she’s busy _______(work) every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come_______(see) me often.