A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of __41__. “Do you know __42__ you and I are?” she asked. __43__ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman __44__ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, __45__ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?”“Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) __46__.”“We don’t __47__ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said. I forgot all about her story __48__ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman. “And what is your occupation?” she asked. What __49__ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ___50___ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.” The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen ___51__ in mid-air. She looked up __52__ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly. “Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your ___53__?” Coolly, I heard myself ___54__, “I have a continuing program of research in the laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have __55__ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the __56__ are in satisfaction rather than just money.” There was an increasing note of __57__ in the clerk’s voice as she __58__ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was __59__ by my lab assistants — ages 1 3, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program. I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great __60__. 小题1: A．surprise B．anxiety C．anger D．excitement 小题2: A．who B．what C．how D．why 小题3: A．When B．As C．Before D．Since 小题4: A．at B．after C．by D．around 小题5: A．nervous B．sure C．anxious D．uncertain 小题6: A．mother B．worker C．teacher D．doctor 小题7: A．think B．list C．expect D．give 小题8: A．since B．unless C．until D．when 小题9: A．got B．caused C．permit D．made 小题10: A．researcher B．manager C．expert D．scholar 小题11: A．dropped B．floated C．frozen D．broke 小题12: A．so that B．even though C．as though D．because of 小题13: A．family B．subject C．study D．field 小题14: A．words B．reply C．shout D．whisper 小题15: A．two B．three C．four D．five 小题16: A．rewards B．awards C．profits D．benefits 小题17: A. interest           B. respect              C. doubt            D fear 小题18: A．explained B．passed C．completed D．filled 小题19: A．accepted B．greeted C．recognized D．refused 小题20: A．person B．award C．career D．business