题目内容：

Working from Home

My family recently had the bright idea that I should spend a day working from home.When I mapped out such a day, I had______working hard in my study, then taking a mid-morning cookie break with the kids, next returning to work, and finally going for a family walk.               

cookie jar

However, during the first hour of my workday at home, I________touched any work. The children kept running into my study and asking me to play with them.Around 10:30 a.m., I decided to take that mid-morning cookie________and then found that there was nothing left in the cookie jar. The kids had eaten them all! I returned to my desk and began writing an e-mail until my wife walked in.

“I need to run to the store. Could you please fix the car battery (电池) for me?”, she said. I mumbled (嘟囔) to myself all the way to the car, did the job, and went back to my desk. Then, my kids started asking for lunch. After telling them over and over again to wait until their mom gets home, I finally put a sign to my door that ________ : Go Ask Someone Else!

And that worked really well. I finally________ to finish writing that e-mail. The house was quiet up to the________that the neighbor called and told me that my children went to ask him for lunch! I told him to send my kids back. Frustrated (懊恼的), I made sandwiches for the kids and myself. Just as I was cleaning up, my wife walked in.

I was so glad that she was back and couldn’t wait to escape. I________for the door to go back to my work. As I sat down at the desk, I realised things were not like what I had imagined. And I also understood how________ it is to take good care of a family.

1.A.suggested B.forgotten C.imagined D.finished

2.A.even B.just C.still D.hardly

3.A.break B.party C.lesson D.walk

4.A.read B.heard C.pronounced D.translated

5.A.offered B.refused C.preferred D.managed

6.A.turn B.point C.time D.number

7.A.paid B.headed C.waited D.searched

8.A.happy B.relaxing C.exciting D.hard