If you walk through the streets of any big city at six or seven in the morning, the chance

s are you will see women hurrying along, pushing prams(婴儿推车). You may see more than one women【C1】______on tile same door and, as it opens, quickly kiss the child,【C2】______a package of nappies and hurry off down the street to clock on the early【C3】______in an office, leaving their children to a child-minder -- a woman who may be doing the job legally or illegally, well or【C4】______Brian Jackson, director of the Child-minding Researching Unit, and his【C5】______have done a great deal of work in finding out【C6】______it means for a child to spend the first years of life【C7】______the care of a child-minder.

【C8】______law, anyone who looks after a child for more than two hours a day and【C9】______paid must be registered.【C10】______the punishment is a 50 pounds【C11】______Local authorities are responsible for the【C12】______and supervision of minders. The regulations【C13】______adequate provision for fire, safety and health. Very few minders can【C14】______these. Yet, not many boroughs give【C15】______assistance. "This means," Brian Jackson says, "that【C16】______you have one registered minder tested and proved by the local authorities, you can be sure that you will get a dozen unregistered,【C17】______minders at work."

The researchers found themselves【C18】______into the role of private investigators when they conduct their【C19】______Getting up early to do a" Dawn Watch" following mothers through cold, dark streets and【C20】______where they left their babies, Jackson says, was a long, slow process.

【C1】

A．knock

B．stop

C．stick

D．insist