新视野大学英语4课后练习及答案翻译(20)

10.All his parents" sisters and brothers have big batches of kids, so he has nine cousins in total, all living here in Rome.
他父母的兄弟姐妹都有一大批孩子，所以他有九个堂兄弟姐妹，都住在罗马。
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l Karen was a young mother working as a clerk at a court in North Carolina. Though she had been trained in criminal justice, she quickly found prisons and courts to be 1)J depressing places to work. When her daughter was born, she had to stay at home and be a full-time mother. At that point, she decided to 2)D figure out what she really wanted to do with her life. She knew that she liked office jobs and didn"t intend to give up her own career development, but she also enjoyed the 3)H flexibility of staying home and raising her daughter. Therefore, it seemed that she just couldn"t find anything that could satisfy these two 4)L seemingly conflicting conditions.
l One day, Karen read in the newspapers that a couple 5)N sued their babysitter for abusing their child. It turned out that the babysitter had a long criminal record.Karen couldn"t 6)G imagine hiring someone to watch her child without doing a thorough investigation about that person"s background. This7) A sparked a brilliant idea. Karen decided to do something to save other parents" children from 8)E suffering the same fate. And this job didn"t require her to leave her home. The next day she got her hometown paper and looked at the ads placed by parents seeking babysitters. She called them and sent them 9)C leaflets to offer her baby-sitting services. Several of them jumped at it. Her business was born and has continued to grow.