题目内容：

词汇应用

阅读下面的短文，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空，必要时可以加助动词。

I have lived in Beijing all my life. I will tell you about my life today and in the past. My family lived in a tiny house in the past. There 1._____(be) no electric lights, only candles. My father was a postman, and he often 2._______(work) twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She 3.______(not go ) out to work. There were five 4._____ (child) in my family and looking after us was more than a full-time job.

I remember the family meals. The food was simple. We could only eat meat5._____(one) or twice a year. I 6._______ (not send) to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because I was a girl.

Today, life7.______(change). Families have got 8.________(small) than they were in the past. Most people only have one child! The role of women has changed too. My daughter is

Really 9._____ (luck) .She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting 10._______(marry). I’m happy to see she’s busy 11._______(work) every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come12._______(see) me often.