billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. he has a 1 job which gets him 2 every morning at five o’clock. he is a 3 .
each morning, billy 4 the house at 5:15 to go to the corner 5 the news-papers are. the newspapers were delivered to the 6 by truck at midnight. he always takes a wagon to carry them.
in the 7 it is still dark when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is 8 . billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route 9 all kinds of weather. he tries to put each 10 on the porch (门廊) where it will be pro-tected from 11 and rain or snow. his 12 think he does a good job. sometimes they give him 13 .
billy 14 about $ 70 per month, and he is 15 some of the money to go to col-lege. he spends the rest 16 records and clothes. once a month, he has to 17 money from his customers. since many of them 18 during the day, billy has to col-lect the money 19 . sometimes, when billy is 20 , his older brother has to 21 the newspapers, once billy’s father had to help.
billy has seventy customers now, 22 he hopes to get more soon. some day, if he gets 23 more customers, billy might win a prize for being an outstanding news-paper boy. he wants to win a 24 to europe, but he will also be happy 25 he wins a new bicycle.
1. a. full time b. strange
c. good d. part-time
2. a. to carry papers b. to go to work
c. to go to school d. up
3. a. schoolboy b. newspaper boy
c. cowboy d. clever boy
4. a. leaves b. reached c. left d. reaches
5. a. that b. where c. which d. whether
6. a. house b. porch c. school d. corner
7. a. east b. winter
c. morning d. summer
8. a. light b. cloudy
c. sunny d. cold
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