I soon found that the work I was doing had already been done by someone else，____, I was wasting my time.
A．to make things worse B．in other words
C．at the same time D．for another thing
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Like most people, I’ve long understood that I’ll be judged by my occupation, that my profession is used by people to see how talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.
Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suppose they’d never say or do to the people they know. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then called me back with his finger a minute later, saying angrily that he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.
I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon（勤雜工） by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior（低等的）treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.
Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked--- politely and formally.
I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from a person in advertising department with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately clear. Perhaps it was because of money, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.
It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry exists to meet others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.
I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose job is to serve them.
68. What makes the author disappointed?
A. Professionals tend to look down upon workers.
B. Talented people have to do the job waiting tables.
C. One’s position is used to measure one’s intelligence.
D. Occupation affects the way one is treated as a person.
69. What does the author intend to say by the example in Paragraph 2?
A. Waiting tables is a hard job.
B. Some customers are difficult to deal with.
C. The man making a phone call is absent-minded.
D. Some customers show no respect to those who serve them.
70. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?
A. She felt it unfair to be treated as a servant.
B. She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.
C. She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.
D. She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.
71. The author says one day she’ll take her customers to dinner in order to _______.
A. see what kind of person they are
B. experience the feeling of being served
C. share her working experience with her customers
D. help them realize the difference between server and servant
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As I drove my blue Buick into the garage. I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was 36 too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the 37 space. That left
38 enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home 39 , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space － too close to my car, 40. At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had 41 and I shouted at her, “Can’t you see you’re not 42 me enough space” Park father over.” Banging(猛推) open her door into 43 ,
the driver shouted back: “Make me!” 44 this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my 45 . Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?” I soon found 46 . The next day the woman 47 a note on her windshield(擋風玻璃):
Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,
I’m sorry mistress(女主人) shouted at yours the other day. She’s been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn’t sing anymore while 48 . It wasn’t like her to scream 49 . Fact is, she’d just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I 50 you and your mistress will 51 her.
Your neighbor,
Blue Buick
When I went to the 52 the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:
Dear Blue Buick,
My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so 53 because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I’m glad we can be 54 now.
Your neighbor,
Yellow Oldsmobile
After that, whenever Blue Buick 55 Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved
cheerfully and smiled.
A．driven B．parked C．stopped D．stayed
A．complete B．close C．narrow D．fixed
A．quite B．nearly C．seldom D．hardly
A．hurriedly B．first C．finally D．timely
A．as usual B．as planned C．as well D．as yet
A．run into B．run about C．run out D．run off
A．keeping B．saving C．offering D．leaving
A．mine B．hers C．itself D．ours
A．For B．With C．From D .Upon
A．room B．area C．front D．side
A．an instruction B．a result C．an answer D．a chance
A．put B．wrote C．sent D．discovered
A．working B．driving C．returning D．cooking
A．on end B．so long C．like that D．any more
A．hope B．know C．suppose D．suggest
A．comfort B．help C．forgive D．please
A．office B．flat C．place D．garage
A．crazily B．eagerly C．noisily D．early
A．neighbors B．friends C．drivers D．writers
A．followed B．passed C．found D．greeted
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I soon found that the work I was doing had already been done by someone else.________，I was wasting my time.
A．In other words B．In a word C．First of all D．Believe it or not
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I soon found that the work I was doing ____ by someone else — in other words, I was wasting my time.
A. had already been done B. has already been done
C. would be done D. have already been done
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