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2. 我因极少去看望她而感到惭愧。(guilty)

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3. 我对该队获胜的可能性表示怀疑。(sceptical)

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4. 我不仅认识她，还是她最好的朋友。(倒装句)

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5. 我上大学去了，那时我的朋友全都找到了收入不错的工作。(meanwhile)

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答案：

1. You'd better take the keys in case I'm out.

2. I feel guilty about visiting her so rarely.

3. I'm skeptical about/of the team's chance of winning.

4. Not only do I know her，but I'm her best friend.

5. I went to college. Meanwhile, all my friends got well paid jobs.

三、完形填空

　　Anna Douglas was 72 years old when she started writing her newspaper column. She had been a school teacher before she retired, but she needed to keep__1__.She was even willing to work without pay. She then offered her__2__with a business that helped other businesses find jobs for old people. Every day she __3__other folks like her. By talking with them, she __4__two things. Old people had abilities that were not___5__.But old people also had some __6__.She found a new purpose for herself then.

　　Through the years, she__7__ to write stories about people for national magazines. There was now a new __8__: Old people like herself. She began to write a newspaper column called "Sixty Plus", which was about ___9__old. She writes about the problems of old people, especially their problems with being __10__.

　　Anna Douglas uses her __11__ability to see the truth behind a problem. She understands __12__problems begin. For example, one of her__13___said that his grandchildren __14__the houses as soon as he came to visit Mrs.Douglas __15__some ways for him to understand his grandchildren.

"It's important to know __16__about your grandchildren's world," says Mrs.