In the winter vocation of 2008, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n)
21 at Mr Breen’s fruit shop. The fruit shop did good business. Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood,
22_ he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr Breen
23 them all by names and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always
24 me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly longstanding customers, and I
25 they must have stayed faithful to him because he had promised to sell good quality fruits. He had a way with them---- I had to
26 that. He called every woman “madam” for a start,
27 those who clearly were not, but when he said it, it did not sound like flattery(恭维). It just sounded
28 in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter
29 . If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few
30 about the weather,
31 he did, he would ask about their families or make
32 , always cutting his cloth
33 his customers. Whatever their bills came to, he
34 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱), and I was sure they thought he was very generous. But I thought he was the opposite. He never threw anything away. He was always looking for
35 for nothing.
| 小题1: | | A．operator | B．assistant | C．waiter | D．secretary |
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| 小题2: | | A．so | B．when | C．therefore | D．but |
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| 小题4: | | A．making | B．letting | C．getting | D．keeping |
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| 小题5: | | A．wished | B．insisted | C．declared | D．supposed |
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| 小题6: | | A．admit | B．expect | C．announce | D．promise |
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| 小题8: | | A．serious | B．strange | C．polite | D．familiar |
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| 小题9: | | A．as well | B．as usual | C．either | D．also |
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| 小题10: | | A．sayings | B．questions | C．words | D．speeches |
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| 小题11: | | A．and then | B．and so | C．even if | D．but if |
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| 小题12: | | A．preparations | B．jokes | C．repairs | D．friends |
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| 小题13: | | A．according to | B．due to | C．instead of | D．up to |
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| 小题14: | | A．never | B．ever | C．seldom | D．always |
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| 小题15: | | A．something | B．anything | C．somebody | D．anybody |
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