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After the birth of my second child， I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced____1____for a few days， I was____2____to wait tables on my own. All went____3____that first week. When Saturday night came， I was luckily____4____the tables not far from the kitchen
，
____5____， I still felt it a little hard to carry the heavy trays . Before I knew it， the____6____was full of people. I moved slowly ,____7____every step. I remember how____8____I was when I saw the tray stand near the tables， it looked different from the one I was____9____on. It had nice handles， which made it____10____to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to____11____I was a natural at this job. Then， an old man came to me and said， “Excuse me， dear， my wife and I loved____12____you work. It seems your tray stand has been very____13____to you， but we are getting ready to____14____now， and my wife needs her____15____back. ”
At first his____16____did not get across. “What was he talking about!” Then I got it. I had set my trays on his wife
’
s orthopedic walker . I stood frozen as ice， but my face was____17____ I wanted to get into a hole and____18____.
Since then， I have learned from many mistakes such as the one I just____19____. I have learned to be more____20____and not to be too sure of myself.
1. A. manager
D. waitress
B. assistant
C. cook
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2. A. promised B. invited C. allowed
D. advised
3. A. well 4. A. left
5. A. therefore 6. A. kitchen 7. A. minding
D. saving
8. A. angry 9. A. fixed
D. waited
10. A. slower
D. easier
11. A. believe
D. pretend
12. A. letting 13. A. useful
D. interesting
14. A. rest 15. A. bag 16. A. idea 17. A. cold
B. quickly
B. given
B. however
B. street
B. changing
B. calm B. trained
B. lighter
B. agree B. making
B. familiar
B. order B. walker B. praise
B. full of joy
C. safely C. brought
C. otherwise
C. restaurant
C. taking
C. sad
C. loaded
C. quieter
C. regret C. watching
C. unusual
C. eat
C. tray
C. message
C. pale
D. wrong
D. shown D. finally D. table
D. happy
D. having
D. leave
D. coat
D. need
D. on fire
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18. A. lie
B. hide
C. defend C. corrected
D. stay
19. A. repeated
D. described
B. discovered
20. A. careful
【答案与解析】
B. patient C. honest D. practical
D. practical
作者在餐馆工作时，误把别人的助步器当成托盘架使用，这一错误让作者认识到：做事要更细心，不要过于相信自己。
1. D。由于刚开始在餐馆里当服务员，所以应先与一个有经验的服务员一起工作。 2. C。这里指的是“我”跟着有经验的服务员工作几天后，就可以单独招待客人了。be allowed to do sth 意为“被准许做某事”。
3. A。根据下文可知，作者在工作中遇到了一些状况，与之相对，这里是指“在最初的一个星期里我的工作很顺利”。
4. B。上文中说到作者可以单独招待客人了，这里指的是作者分配到的餐桌离厨房较近，故用 given。
英语完形填空(答案解析与解析)
