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 ____. “Do you know ____ you and I are?” she asked. ____ 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 ____ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, ____ 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) ____.” “We don’t ____ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said. I forgot all about her story ____ 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 ____ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ______ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.” The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen _____ in mid-air. She looked up ____ 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 _____?” Coolly, I heard myself _____, “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 ____ 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 ____ are in satisfaction rather than just money.” There was an increasing note of ____ in the clerk’s voice as she ____ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was ____ by my lab assistants — ages 13, 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 ____. 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