At 67,Joyce Faulkner thought she was looking for a holiday.Her husband,Jim,had recently died and exploring possible house swaps on the Home Exchange website felt comforting.In the end,it was not a vacation Faulkner found but a job.She left her home in South Queensferry, to become mother's help to seven-year-old twins in the northern Italian town of Varese.Now she is known as ＂La Babysitter（代人临时照看小孩的人）”or simply “La Joyce".“Really,when I think of it,it's halfway crazy," she says."I came on the strength of two emails.”A house swap shewas interested in didn't work out,but the owner,Racheal,asked: “Do you know anyone who might help me with the children?'I wrote back and said:"Tell me what that involves!“She wrote me a little list,and I said:'I could do that!'She seemed to trust me and I trusted her."Two months later,Faulkner was in Italy.When she reached the square in Varese,“the dad, Andrea,was walking towards me with the children hiding behind his legs,kind of shy, thinking:'Who is this woman in a long black coat?'The atmosphere was immediately warm and friendly.”Eighteen months on,Faulkner's job no longer feels like a job."I just feel like part of the family."They joke:"You think you're going back to the UK? No,you're staying here!” She gives English lessons,helps with the housework,meets the children from school,plays chess or table tennis with them,and takes them to the park."It never feels like work,"she says."lt has been absolutely the perfect match."Before she made her move,her sister reasonably pointed out:"You're used to living on your own.How are you going to cope?”I said:'Well, if it doesn't work out,I'll make another decision.'You have to take the 'I was looking for a holiday in Italy-but found a job opportunity when it presents itself."Faulkner is not ready to leave Italy."I haven't started on an exit plan,"she says. "I'll be 70 in January.That looks like a big number when you write it down,but in my head,I'm 30.I still feel the same person,I have the same enthusiasm for life,the same interest in people and things.In that sense,I wish I had another 70."When she arrived in Varese,Joyce ______.

At 67,Joyce Faulkner thought she was looking for a holiday.Her husband,Jim,had recently died and exploring possible house swaps on the Home Exchange website felt comforting.In the end,it was not a vacation Faulkner found but a job.She left her home in South Queensferry, to become mother's help to seven-year-old twins in the northern Italian town of Varese.Now she is known as ＂La Babysitter（代人临时照看小孩的人）”or simply “La Joyce".“Really,when I think of it,it's halfway crazy," she says."I came on the strength of two emails.”A house swap shewas interested in didn't work out,but the owner,Racheal,asked: “Do you know anyone who might help me with the children?'I wrote back and said:"Tell me what that involves!“She wrote me a little list,and I said:'I could do that!'She seemed to trust me and I trusted her."Two months later,Faulkner was in Italy.When she reached the square in Varese,“the dad, Andrea,was walking towards me with the children hiding behind his legs,kind of shy, thinking:'Who is this woman in a long black coat?'The atmosphere was immediately warm and friendly.”Eighteen months on,Faulkner's job no longer feels like a job."I just feel like part of the family."They joke:"You think you're going back to the UK? No,you're staying here!” She gives English lessons,helps with the housework,meets the children from school,plays chess or table tennis with them,and takes them to the park."It never feels like work,"she says."lt has been absolutely the perfect match."Before she made her move,her sister reasonably pointed out:"You're used to living on your own.How are you going to cope?”I said:'Well, if it doesn't work out,I'll make another decision.'You have to take the 'I was looking for a holiday in Italy-but found a job opportunity when it presents itself."Faulkner is not ready to leave Italy."I haven't started on an exit plan,"she says. "I'll be 70 in January.That looks like a big number when you write it down,but in my head,I'm 30.I still feel the same person,I have the same enthusiasm for life,the same interest in people and things.In that sense,I wish I had another 70."Why does Joyce say her job in the family never feels like work?

At 67,Joyce Faulkner thought she was looking for a holiday.Her husband,Jim,had recently died and exploring possible house swaps on the Home Exchange website felt comforting.In the end,it was not a vacation Faulkner found but a job.She left her home in South Queensferry, to become mother's help to seven-year-old twins in the northern Italian town of Varese.Now she is known as ＂La Babysitter（代人临时照看小孩的人）”or simply “La Joyce".“Really,when I think of it,it's halfway crazy," she says."I came on the strength of two emails.”A house swap shewas interested in didn't work out,but the owner,Racheal,asked: “Do you know anyone who might help me with the children?'I wrote back and said:"Tell me what that involves!“She wrote me a little list,and I said:'I could do that!'She seemed to trust me and I trusted her."Two months later,Faulkner was in Italy.When she reached the square in Varese,“the dad, Andrea,was walking towards me with the children hiding behind his legs,kind of shy, thinking:'Who is this woman in a long black coat?'The atmosphere was immediately warm and friendly.”Eighteen months on,Faulkner's job no longer feels like a job."I just feel like part of the family."They joke:"You think you're going back to the UK? No,you're staying here!” She gives English lessons,helps with the housework,meets the children from school,plays chess or table tennis with them,and takes them to the park."It never feels like work,"she says."lt has been absolutely the perfect match."Before she made her move,her sister reasonably pointed out:"You're used to living on your own.How are you going to cope?”I said:'Well, if it doesn't work out,I'll make another decision.'You have to take the 'I was looking for a holiday in Italy-but found a job opportunity when it presents itself."Faulkner is not ready to leave Italy."I haven't started on an exit plan,"she says. "I'll be 70 in January.That looks like a big number when you write it down,but in my head,I'm 30.I still feel the same person,I have the same enthusiasm for life,the same interest in people and things.In that sense,I wish I had another 70."What was Joyce's sister's reaction to her move?

"There are no longer any good chances for young men,"complained a youthful law student toDaniel Webster.(63)"There is always room at the top,"replied the great statesman and jurist.No chance,no opportunities,in a land where thousands of poor boys become rich men, where newsboys go to Congress,and where those bom in the lowest stations attain the highest positions?(64) The world is all gates.all opportunities to him who will use them. But,like Bunyan's pilgrim in dungeon of the castle,who had the key of deliverance all the time with him but had forgotten it,(65) we fail to rely wholly upon the ability to advance all that is good for us which has been given to the weakest as well as the strongest. We depend too much upon outside assistance."We look too high For things close by."(66) A Baltimore lady lost a valuable diamond bracelet at a ball.and supposed that it was stolen from the pocket of her cloak. Years afterward she washed the steps of the Peabody Institute, pondering how to get money to buy food, she cut up an old, worn-out, ragged cloak to make a hood, when looking in the lining of the cloak she discovered the diamond bracelet. (67) During all her poverty she was worth $3,500,but did not know it.(From Opportunities Where You Are)

Because a friend of mine asked me,I called on good-natured,talkative old Simon Wheeler and asked him about my friend's friend,Leonidas W.Smiley.This story is the result of that visit.I have a deep suspicion that (31)______;that my friend from the East never knew such a person;and that he made the request of me as a joke.I think he imagined that if I went to Wheeler and asked him about Smiley,then Wheeler would make up a story and bore me to death(32)______,If that was my friend's plan,it succeeded.I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and baldheaded. He looked gentle,and(33)______.He awakened and greeted me enthusiastically.I told him that a friend of mine had asked me to ask around about an old friend of his from childhood.My friend's old friend was named Leonidas W.Smiley.I further explained that my friend thought that (34)______and that he lived in Angel's Camp-or at least he used to.I told Wheeler that(35)______if he could tell me anything about Smiley,since I wanted to honour my friend's request.Simon Wheeler backed me into a comer and blockaded me there with his chair.He then sat down and proceeded to tell me the most boring,monotonous story I had ever heard.He never smiled,(36)______he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key which he started with,he never showed the slightest amount of enthusiasm.(37)______But, interesting to note,(38)______he showed himself to be earnest and sincere.It was a wild tale (as you will soon see,since I am going to repeat it word for word),but he never showed me that he thought it wasn't true.(39)______.Hle regarded it as a truly important matter, and he clearly admired its two heroes(40)______.I let him tell it in his own way and never interrupted him once.(From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County) A.with some terribly long,exasperating,useless taleB. as men of taste,wit,and intelligence C.His story was flat and dullD.throughout the entire taleE. his face showed him to be a happy,peaceful man F. I had an insatiable curiosity about everything G.Leonidas W.Smiley doesn't existH.he never frownedI. It never occurred to him that it was a story either J.Smiley was a young minister of the Gospel K. I would be very gratefulL.touch one of my exposed nerves

(moral)They think it's ______ to leave thousands of children without an education.

(help)Unable to swim,he watched and felt ______ as the animal struggled desperately in the water.

(place)We need to______the secretary that left a month ago.

(advantage)The lower tax rate is particularly ______ to poorer families.

(secure)We urge the administration to establish a timely permitting process that supports the energy ______ needs of the country.