Mr. White works in an office. He’s able and can easily deal with all kinds of matters.    60   . Of course he’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife does all at home.
Last Friday, their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident and had to be in hospital. Mrs. White had to look after her there and she couldn’t go home to take care of the house and her husband. When Mr. White was at home alone, he never cooked meals.    61   .
Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone rang.    62   . His friend told him to write down an important telephone number. But he could find neither a pen nor a piece of paper. At this moment, he found there was much dust (灰尘) on the table and he wrote the number on it with his forefinger (食指).    63   . In the afternoon, his wife came back to look for a sweater for her daughter. When Mr. White returned from work and saw his wife cleaning the table,  he rushed to her while shouting, “Stop!” But it was too late!

Mr. White works in an office. He’s able and can easily deal with all kinds of matters.    60  . Of course he’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife does all at home.

Last Friday, their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident and had to be in hospital. Mrs. White had to look after her there and she couldn’t go home to take care of the house and her husband. When Mr. White was at home alone, he never cooked meals.    61  .

Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone rang.    62  . His friend told him to write down an important telephone number. But he could find neither a pen nor a piece of paper. At this moment, he found there was much dust (灰尘) on the table and he wrote the number on it with his forefinger (食指).    63  . In the afternoon, his wife came back to look for a sweater for her daughter. When Mr. White returned from work and saw his wife cleaning the table,  he rushed to her while shouting, “Stop!” But it was too late!

__________ my father__________ my mother take good care of me. I love them so much.

A. Either; or          B. Both; and        C. Neither; nor

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     Mr. White works in a big office. He’s able to deal with all kinds of matters, so he’s always   1.   more than his workmates. Of course he’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife   2.   him well and does all at home.

     Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and had to be in  3.  . Mrs. White was looking after her there and she couldn’t go home. As Mr. White   4.  did any cleaning, the rooms were all disorderly (凌乱的).

     Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone   5.  . He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to write an important telephone number down. But he could find   6. a pen nor a piece of paper. Then he found there   7.   much dust (灰尘) on the table and wrote the number on it. But soon he   8.  it and went to work.

Two hours later his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came back while she was   9.   the table. He couldn’t see the number on the table and called out   10. , "Who let you clean the table?"

Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very  1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewels(珠宝)or  2 clothes.   3 , she spent millions in  4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s  5 was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38  6 because Sarah was afraid to  7 building it.

Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of  8 arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,   9 the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000  10 . There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.

Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting  11 ? It was because Sarah was afraid of  12 . She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished.

Sarah Winchester’s  13 seemed to have worked  14 she lived to be 83 years old. But   15 , her house was finished.

1.                A．poor           B．rich            C．useful    D．brave

2.                A．cheap          B．expensive       C．simple    D．old

3.                A．Still            B．Usually         C．Instead   D．Even

4.                A．building        B．buying          C．selling    D．setting

5.                A．door           B．window         C．kitchen   D．house

6.                A．years          B．months         C．weeks    D．days

7.                A．keep           B．enjoy          C．stop D．help

8.                A．drivers         B．workers        C．farmers   D．visitors

9.                A．but            B．until           C．since D．so

10.               A．floors          B．kitchens        C．windows   D．rooms

11.               A．bigger          B．smaller         C．stronger   D．cleaner

12.               A．working        B．dying          C．living D．growing

13.               A．age            B．family          C．plan  D．husband

14.               A．or             B．because        C．neither    D．nor

15.               A．hardly          B．usefully        C．carefully   D．finally