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As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing thingsfor my family. I worked hard at school, and sometimeslooked after my younger sister. Still, I found myself regularly resisting the urge to   36   out at home with even the simplest things. Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother   37   me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of   38  . Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back,  39   for my lesson, and bought me a candy bar, you’d think I’d be very   40   to help her bring the groceries into the house.   41   I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the   42   for Mom as I ran to my room, shut the door, and started studying. Don’t get me wrong: even back in my room, I felt   43   about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my   44  . But I also realized that once I did change, there’d be no going back.   45   I took on more responsibility, my parents would start   46   more of me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small change would   47   something much bigger: my personal change from a cared-for, spoiled (被宠坏的) childto a more   48  , caring and giving young man. I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n)   49   to jump in and see what happened. Returning home from the   50  , I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning  51  . Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and   52   back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day! Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The neat thing was, the more I helped out, the   53   I felt about myself and my place in my family. As Mom and Dad realized they could   54   on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too. In short, it was a win-win situation for everyone. Sometimes the little things we put off doing the longest   55   out to be the simplest things to complete. And feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.  36．A. help   B. cry     C. start   D. work 37．A.sent    B. drove C. walked      D. guided      38．A. fruits  B. flowers      C. groceries  D. vegetables 39．A. paid   B.fought C. applied     D. planned 40．A. nervous    B. grateful     C. confident  D. unwilling 41．A. So     B. And    C. Thus  D. But 42．A. one   B. other  C. next   D. rest 43．A. excited     B. curious     C. guilty            D. doubtful 44．A. way   B. world  C. career      D. shape 45．A. Since B. Though     C. Unless      D. Once 46．A. warning    B. reminding C. expecting  D. informing 47．A. tell    B. mark  C. express    D. describe   48．A. energetic  B. ambitious  C. outgoing   D. responsible 49．A. excuse     B. decision    C. statement D. appointment 50. A.duty    B.store   C. lesson              D. holiday 51.  A. anger      B. shame      C. delight     D. pleasure          52. A. called        B. looked      C. headed    D. handed 53．A. better       B. smarter     C. warmer     D. stronger 54．A. live    B. press C. focus D. count 55．A. turn   B. make C. point  D. Bring 答案：ABCAB  DDCAD CBDBC BCADA

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