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  3. Taking Care of Herself Alicia Owens is eight years old. For the past two years, she has come home to a empty house. Her moth

Taking Care of Herself Alicia Owens is eight years old. For the past two years, she has come home to a empty house. Her moth

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问题                     Taking Care of Herself
    Alicia Owens is eight years old. For the past two years, she has come home
to a empty house. Her mother and her father work all day from 9 to 5. Alicia 【M1】______
returns home from school by 3 o’clock. Her mother, Laurie, calls her
from work at 3: 15. Alicia has already made herself a cup of cocoa and sitting 【M2】______
in front of the TV set when her mother call. She asks if everything is all right. 【M3】______
Alicia always says, "Yes, Mom. "
    Alicia is not allow to invite her friends to her house when her parents 【M4】______
are not home. Sometimes she receives invitations to play at a classmate’s
home after school. Therefore, she cannot accept them unless either her 【M5】______
mother nor father knows where she is. As a result, Alicia has spent a lot of 【M6】______
afternoons alone in her house, usually watch TV or playing on the computer. 【M7】______
By the time when her parents arrive, she has also finished her homework, and 【M8】______
has set the table for dinner. Sometimes she has even done laundry and
started preparing dinner. All by herself.
    When Alicia was born, her mother took maternity leave and stayed 【M9】______
at home. But when Alicia was six months old, her mother brought her to the
home of a child-care worker who take care of the very young. When Alicia 【M10】______
was two and a half, she began attending preschool. Although Alicia is just
eight years old, she has attended school for nearly six years. In that time,
she has learned to take care of herself. She can dress herself, make herself
snacks, get in and out of her house, answer the phone, and take messages.
【M5】
选项
答案Therefore—However／But
解析 (上句提到“有时放学后，爱丽丝会受邀去同学家玩”，而该句指出“除非妈妈或爸爸知道她在哪儿，否则她并不能接受邀请”，前后两句为转折关系，因此therefore应改为however或but。)
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