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第 PAGE 12 页 共 NUMPAGES 12 页 浙江省名校新高考研究联盟Z202020-2021学年高一尖子生第三次学程检测英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：Sweat blurred my vision All I had to do for the two dollars was to clean her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house, too, with things that were common in her neighborhood, absent in mine. In the middle of the war, she had butter, sugar… I knew how to clean floors on my knees and how to wash clothes, but I had never seen a Hoover vacuum cleaner or an iron that wasn’t heated by fire. Part of my pride in working for her was earning money I could squander: on movies, candy, paddle balls, jacks, ice-cream cones. But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things. The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed, nuisances to be corrected, problems so severe that they were abandoned to the forest. I had a status that doing routine chores in my house did not provide — and it earned me a slow smile, an approving nod from an adult. Confirmations that I was adult-like, not childlike. In those days, the forties, children were not just loved or liked; they were needed. They could earn money; they could care for children younger than themselves; they could work the farm, take care of the herd, and much more. I suspect that children aren’t needed in that way now. They are loved, doted on, protected, and helped. Little by little, I got better at cleaning her house — good enough to be given more to do. After pushing the piano, my arms and legs hurt so badly. I wanted to refuse, or at least to complain, but I was afraid she would fire me, and I would lose the freedom the dollar gave me, as well as the standing I had at home. She began to offer me her clothes, for a price. Impressed