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One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here, ”she said. “  36  . ”She held my head against her  37  , and after a puzzled moment I felt a  38   foot drumming on my cheek. “You see ? ”she said, “It’s alive. You can  39   it, can’t you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without  40  . It was as good a place for the baby to be as any other and I never  41   about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.

   A baby would come? I  42   noticed. That there were soon to be  43   of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe.  44  , certainly not a baby, could  45   that.

   I was  46  , however. I soon found that things had  47   a great deal. I had never been the  48  . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the  49  . My sister had certain  50   because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much  51   boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.

   As he grew, it became  52   that my brother had been the center of everything. People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy  53   by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second  54  . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be  55  , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

  36. A. Look            B. See              C. Listen            D. Stop

  37. A. stomach          B. back             C. side              D. shoulder

  38. A. strong           B. hard              C. soft              D. tiny

  39. A. believe           B. feel              C. notice            D. touch

  40. A. surprise          B. delay             C. trouble               D. effort

  41. A. worried          B. argued            C. regretted          D. doubted

  42. A. hardly           B. certainly           C. possibly           D. willingly

  43. A. two             B. three             C. four              D. five

  44. A. Anything          B. Something         C. Nothing           D. Everything

  45. A. improve          B. threaten           C. compare           D. prevent

  46. A. curious           B. careless           C. wrong            D. anxious

  47. A. improved         B. changed           C. increased          D. disturbed

  48. A. oldest           B. youngest          C. cleverest          D. dearest

  49. A. family           B. house             C. middle            D. trouble

  50. A. manners          B. knowledge         C. opinions           D. rights

  51. A. admired          B. blamed            C. respected          D. favored

  52. A. strange           B. obvious           C. serious            D. special

  53. A. usually           B. curiously          C. gradually          D. simply

  54. A. look             B. smile             C. care              D. comfort

  55. A. ordinary          B. perfect               C. clever            D. similar

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35. The moment Jenny got home, she noticed a woman waiting for her. She _________ her before.

A. never saw             B. had never seen

C. never sees             D. has never seen

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34.  -Have you finished your homework, Mary?

-No, I ______ my mother in the kitchen all day yesterday.

A. would help        B. had helped     C. was helping           D. used to help

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33. He sent his friend a gift, ________ to make her feel better.

    A. hoped         B. hoping      C. to hope         D. hope

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32.   _______ at the office, Mr. Green found the papers prepared for his boss were left at home.  

A. To arrive          B. On arriving     C. As arriving          D. While arrived

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