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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B,C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend schoo1.Usually,on holidays,Mother________ me to sleep in.And I would certainly take full advantage of it.On this particular morning,________,I felt like getting up early.
I stood by my window overlooking the ________,having nothing better to do.But as it turned out,I was soon to learn about something ________ in life.
As I watched several people go by,get into their cars and go off,I ________ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its ________ and a basket of rags and bottles on its back-carriage.He ________ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them.From the water on the ground,it seemed that he had already ________ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars.He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.
Several thoughts ________my mind as I watched him work.He wash’t well-dressed.He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) ________ T-shirt.The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ________ would want to be seen riding on.But he seemed ________ with life.There he was,working hard at his small business, ________ at passers by and stopping to chat now and then ________ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.
There was a noticeable touch of ________ in the way he seemed to be doing things ________ the windscreen(挡风玻璃),then standing back to admire it;scrubbing(擦净)the wheels and ________ ,standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.
It was a ________ to learn,I felt.At no age need one have to beg for a ________ if one has good health and is willing to work hard.For a while I felt ________ of myself.Young as I am—just sixteen,and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.
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