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| This economy has really got a lot of people moving and not always by a choice they wanted to make. My wife and I now find ourselves among those unfortunates feeling that 1 . At the end of last year, our customers just 2 . We had to make the painful decision to 3 our office and put our house up for 4 . We haven't lived in it for two years yet and expected it would be the 5 one for a long time. How 6 this world economic mess is changing our lives! As I get older, I find moving less adventurous and more 7 . This time, we're in the process of moving without knowing where we'll 8 next. Job searching has been thrown into the quagmire (困境) of an unsettled life. Both my wife and I had been feeling pretty 9 from all this. I've been challenged to find the positive in all this down that's 10 us. But then it happened while I watched my wife 11 things up. She's an absolute whiz (能手) when it comes to packing. I took delight in watching her 12 just the right boxes for 13 in front of her and filling in the 14 with pillows and towels. I began feeling something like a wind lift me up and sail me through my own 15 of the packing and loading. Some friends will be helping us with the 16 . I've told them that they're not 17 friends but gaining some new vacation spots. I have 18 that we'll get through this transition finally. We all will always have work to do, by choice or 19 , and we can also consciously make the effort to create a sense of 20 in a new place. | |||
| ( )1. A. pressure ( )2. A. stayed up ( )3. A. open ( )4. A. help ( )5. A. last ( )6. A. little ( )7. A. dangerous ( )8. A. return ( )9. A. relaxed ( )10. A. improving ( )11. A. packing ( )12. A. bring u p ( )13. A. others ( )14. A. cars ( )15. A. boat ( )16. A. settling ( )17. A. valuing ( )18. A. idea ( )19. A. otherwise |
B. pleasure B. turned up B. close B. comparison B. next B. quickly B. common B. arrive B. excited B. encouraging B. washing B. keep up B. nothing B. gaps B. share B. cooking B. losing B. faith B. indeed |
C. heat C. dried up C. visit C. decoration C. only C. frequently C. stressful C. study C. ashamed C. beating C. pulling C. size up C. another C. tanks C. wish C. cleaning C. inviting C. feeling C. worse |
D. chance D. came up D. paint D. sale D. special D. well D. interesting D. prepare D. depressed D. killing D. dividing D. set up D. everything D holes D. promise D. moving D. making D. opinion D. rather |