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  3. I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland, Ore., and began scanning titles on the shelves. The man behind the

I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland, Ore., and began scanning titles on the shelves. The man behind the

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问题     I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland, Ore., and began scanning titles on the shelves. The man behind the counter, Mac McCarley, asked if I’d like a job. I needed to start saving for college, so I said yes.
    I worked after school and during summers for minimum wage, and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs: I brewed (煮) coffee in the student union during college, was a hotel rnaid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most satisfying.
    One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her virtually everything we had in stock and found other books we could order. She left the store less apprehensive, and I’ve always remembered the pride I felt in having helped her.
    Years later, as a television reporter in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his thumb attached, weblike, to the rest of his hand. His family could not afford corrective surgery, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his hand in his pocket.
    I persuaded my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the surgery for free. I visited the boy in the recovery room after the operation. The first thing he did was hold up his repaired hand and say, "Thank you." I felt an overwhelming (巨大的) sense of reward.
    At McCarley’s Bookstore, I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, but I feel as if I work for the viewers, helping them make sense of the world.
The word "apprehensive" in the third paragraph probably means______.
选项 A、disappointed
B、worried
C、doubted
D、unhappy
答案B
解析 本题为词义猜测题，需要根据本段中所提供的其他信息推断“apprehensive”的意思。理解该词的关键是对第三段第二句“She seems fearful．”的正确解读。顾客要找关于癌症的书籍，心情自然是害怕的、焦急的。而A．disappointed表示“失望的”；B．worried表示“焦急的、担心的”；C．doubted表示“怀疑的”；D．unhappy表示“不幸福的、不快乐的”。此外，顾客得到帮助后离开书店的心情自然比进店时的心情缓解了许多，因此选项B的意思最接近“apprehensive”。
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