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       Firefighters in Taoyuan County got an unusual request recently—to assist an elderly woman in the retrieval of herprosthetic eye. Although ___39___ at first, firefighters went to the home of the woman and helped her retrieve herprosthetic eye from the plastic awning of her home. The elderly woman was embarrassed for ___40___ so much trouble.She ___41___ , “A few days ago, I looked down from my home on the fourth floor and my artificial eye dropped out andlanded on the awning on the building’s first floor. I tried different ways to retrieve it, ___42___ I was unable to. So I wentto the fire department for assistance.” Firefighters jokingly responded that although they had unusual requests before, itwas the first time they picked up somebody’s eye.
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(A) skeptical
(B) skeptically
(C) they being skeptical
(D) skeptically the woman was