完形填空精讲精炼10 31. 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(a、b、c和d)中，选出最佳选项。 that holiday morning i didn't have to attend school. usually, on holidays, mother __36__me to sleep in. and i would certainly take full advantage of it. on this particular morning, __37__， i felt like getting up early. i stood by my window overlooking the __38__， having nothing better to do. but as it turned out, i was soon to learn about something __39__ in life. as i watched several people go by, get into their cars and drive off, i __40__ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its __41__ and a basket of rags and bottles on its backcarriage. he __42__ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. from the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already __43__ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. he must have begun to work quite early in the morning. several thoughts __44__ my mind as i watched him work. he wasn't welldressed. he had on a pair of shorts and a(n) __45__ tshirt. the bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern __46__would want to be seen riding on. but he seemed __47__ with life. there he was, working hard at his small business, __48__ at passersby and stopping to chat now and then __49__ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby. there was a noticeable touch of __50__ in the way he seemed to be doing things— __51__ the windscreen(挡风玻璃)，then standing back to admire it; scrubbing(擦净) the wheels and __52__， standing back to see what they looked like after the scrub. it was a __53__ to learn, i felt. at no age need one have to beg for a __54__ if one has good health and is willing to work hard. for a while i felt __55__ of myself. young as i am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.
