When I was 18, I had my first job as a waitress. I worked in a very nice hotel in a small town in Scotland where there were a lot of tourists in the summer so they were taking on extra staff. I lived in a little house opposite the hotel. I had to be at work in the dining room at 7:30 in the morning to start serving breakfast. After serving the breakfast, at about ten o’clock, I had my own breakfast. After that, we started getting the dining room ready for lunch-cleaning the silver, setting the tables, hoovering the floor. I didn’t make too bad a job of serving lunch—one of the waiters looked after me and showed me how to do things. I would on the first day have been quite happy, but I had a problem which was that I’d got up in such a hurry and I just put on my shoes with really high heels. After a few hours on my feet I was in agony and there was nothing I could do about it, there was certainly no time to go and change them. I can tell you I never wore tho
| I was eleven when we had to move out of
the big old house in which I had spent my whole life. Each time I thought of
that, I felt very sad. When the final day came, I ran to a corner and sat alone,
trying not to let others see my tears. Suddenly I felt a hand patting me on the
shoulder. I looked up, and saw my grandpa. "It isn’t easy, is it, my grandson"
he said in a very low voice, sitting down beside me. I nodded through my tears,
without a word. We sat silently for a long time. Then he said, "Good-by is such
a sad word that it seems too cold for us to use. We must try to avoid
it." Then we walked slowly in the garden, hand in hand, to have a last look at each rock, each tree, each flower. We sat for a while by the small pond which was a favorite place of my grandpa’s. "What do you see here, Tommy" asked the old man. I looked at the wat A. were too sorry to leave B. were both unwilling to say goodbye to C. felt sorry when they were in D. didn’t know that they had to leave [单项选择]Only when we had finished all the work（）that it was too late to take a bus home.
A. did we realize B. will we realize C. we did realize D. we will realize [单项选择]I was eleven when we had to move out of the big old house in which I had spent my whole life. Each time I thought of that, I felt very sad. When the final day came, I ran to a corner and sat alone, trying not to let others see my tears. Suddenly I felt a hand patting me on the shoulder. I looked up, and saw my grandpa. "It isn’t easy, is it, my grandson" he said in a very low voice, sitting down beside me. I nodded through my tears, without a word. We sat silently for a long time. Then he said, "Good-by is such a sad word that it seems too cold for us to use. We must try to avoid it."
Then we walked slowly in the garden, hand in hand, to have a last look at each rock, each tree, each flower. We sat for a while by the small pond which was a favorite place of my grandpa’s. "What do you see here, Tommy" asked the old man. I looked at the water, not knowing what to say, and then replied, "I see something soft and beautiful, Grandpa." He pulled me close to him and said, "It isn’t the p A. everything there was related to his sun B. he had lost everything C. it was the place where his son was buried D. his son had not returned 我来回答: 提交
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