One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section．A small advertisement held my
36 .It read, “Easy job．Good wages．No experience
37 .” It sounded like the job I was
38 ．Easy job．Good wages．Those four words
39 now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the
40 ．Easy job．Good wages．Easy job．Good wages．Easy ...
When I got to the place I saw a series of large
41 half filled with water, out of which I noticed
42 the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes．
43 these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches．All had their
44 in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a
45 and the thumb nail of the right hand scratching（刮;擦） the labels on
46 .
I sat down on a
47 beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle．As the minutes went by I noticed that the
48 of the water started to
49 from my hand to my body．But
50 still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was
51 by the minute into a full blown tomato colored finger．A numb（麻木的）pain began to be felt
52 from my right thumb．Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body.
After three hours of this I told the manager I’d
53 .He figured I had
54 69 cents at 23 cents an hour．With the money, I left the working place．“Easy job．Good wages.” came to my brain again．Looking at my hands, I
55 myself, “Can easy job get good wages？”
| 小题1: | | A．eyes | B．attention | C．decision | D．breath |
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| 小题2: | | A．necessary | B．relevant | C．practical | D．primitive |
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| 小题3: | | A．running after | B．looking for | C．heading for | D．looking after |
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| 小题4: | | A．circled | B．moved | C．flashed | D．attacked |
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| 小题5: | | A．letter | B．sign | C．advertisement | D．post |
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| 小题6: | | A．baskets | B．bowls | C．pots | D．basins |
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| 小题7: | | A．hiding | B．sticking | C．rising | D．breaking |
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| 小题8: | | A．In | B．Above | C．Under | D．Around |
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| 小题9: | | A．arms | B．hands | C．legs | D．feet |
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| 小题10: | | A．knife | B．snail | C．bottle | D．brush |
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| 小题12: | | A．chair | B．bench | C．bottle | D．sofa |
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| 小题13: | | A．smell | B．coldness | C．color | D．steam |
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| 小题14: | | A．spread | B．travel | C．recycle | D．accelerate |
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| 小题15: | | A．worse | B．better | C．more | D．rather |
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| 小题16: | | A．going | B．finding | C．growing | D．becoming |
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| 小题17: | | A．now and then | B．here and there | C．one by one | D．little by little |
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| 小题18: | | A．adapt | B．equip | C．bargain | D．quit |
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| 小题19: | | A．taken | B．offered | C．earned | D．created |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．asked | C．found | D．hated |
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