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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent (代理人), 1 had left a message the night before, which told me that my show was to be cancelled (取消). I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was at a meeting and that he 2 (call) me soon. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my research, which was about an 3 (innovate) in information technology. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

Without showing her surprise, my wife rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the wall of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room —if you do anything that upsets my husband, out you go!” I couldn’t help get a load 4 her.

Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, it is 5 (essence) for you to learn how to take control. I am to 6 (pick) our child up from the school.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, it is amazing that something in my mood had changed. I felt so 7 (embarrass) and I was willing to accept her blame. I was intensely aware of her purpose. Her actions 8 words did the trick. I admitted not 9 (deal) with the case 10 (proper). Her unusual actions helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call eventually.

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