根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。
　　Both men and women stared at me and said nothing. A woman (71) ____ a housecoat was startled (72) ____ I came around the corner of her house. (73) ____ the sound of my greeting, she gathered her housecoat tightly about her and moved (74) ____ indoors. I heard the lock click. (75) _____ woman had a strange, large animal (76) _____ her yard. I asked her what kind of dog it was. She gasped at me. I thought she was hard (77) _____ hearing and asked my question louder. She seemed a little frightened before she turned coldly (78) ____. The nice response came from women alone. (79) ____ the way they replied and asked after my health, I knew that at the day’s end when they listed the nice things they had done, there would be a place on the (80) ____ for “I spoke to the trashman today.”