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 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 __60__.

A．surprise B．anxiety C．anger D．excitement

A．who B．what C．how D．why

A．When B．As C．Before D．Since

A．at B．after C．by D．around

A．nervous B．sure C．anxious D．uncertain

A．mother B．worker C．teacher D．doctor

A．think B．list C．expect D．give

A．since B．unless C．until D．when

A．got B．caused C．permit D．made

A．researcher B．manager C．expert D．scholar

A．dropped B．floated C．frozen D．broke

A．so that B．even though C．as though D．because of

A．family B．subject C．study D．field

A．words B．reply C．shout D．whisper

A．two B．three C．four D．five

A．rewards B．awards C．profits D．benefits

A．explained B．passed C．completed D．filled

A．accepted B．greeted C．recognized D．refused

A．person B．award C．career D．business