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 The stretch of Hudson Street where I live is each day the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet. I make myown first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out the garbage can, surely a 56 occupation. But Ienjoy my part, my little clang, as the 57 of junior high school students walk by the center of the stagedropping candy wrappers. (How do they eat so much candy so early in the morning?)While I sweep up the wrappers I watch the other rituals of morning: Mr. Halpert unlocking the laundry’shandcart from its 58 to a cellar door, Joe Cornacchia’s son-in-law stacking out the empty crates from thedelicatessen, the barber bringing out his sidewalk folding chair, Mr. Goldstein arranging the coils of wire which59 the hardware store is open, the wife of the tenement’s superintendent depositing her chunky three-yearold with a toy mandolin on the stoop, the 60 point from which he is learning the English his mother cannotspeak. Now the primary school children, heading for St. Luke’s, dribble through to the south. Two new entrancesare being made from the wings: well-dressed and even elegant women and men with briefcases emerge fromdoorways and side streets. Most of these are heading for the bus and subways, but some 61 on the curbs,stopping taxis which have miraculously appeared at the right moment, for the taxis are a part of a wider morningritual: having dropped passengers from midtown in the downtown 62 district, they are now bringingdowntowners up to midtown. 63 , numbers of women in housedresses have emerged and as theycrisscross with one another they pause for quick conversations that t sound with either laughter or joint 64 ,never, it seems, anything between. It is time for me to hurry to work too, and I exchange my 65 farewellwith Mr. Lofaro, the short, thick-bodied, white-aproned fruit man who stands outside his doorway a little up thestreet, his arms folded, his feet planted, looking solid as earth itself. We nod; we each glance quickly up and downthe street, then look back to each other and smile. We have done this many a morning for more than ten years, andwe both know what it means; All is well.
 
(A) acclaim
(B) droves
(C) financial
(D) hopper
(E) hover(AB) indignation (AC) mooring (AD) proclaim (AE) prosaic (BC) prosodic(BD) ritual (BE) simultaneously (CD) spontaneously (CE) vantage (DE) vintage

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