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My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, "Get up. You're going with me to cut
grass." The idea  1  my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his  2 made me feel
proud and   3  . From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I   4   in the large yards in a
rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good. I had  5  a hard day's
labour and had earned $6.
One day my father found some leaves I'd  6  and pulled me aside. "Clear away these leaves," he
said  7 , "and don't make me have to tell you to do it again." The  8  was clear. Today I value the
importance of doing a job  9  the first time. It will never  10  to impress the person you are working for.
After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were  11 enough to do lawns(草坪)
on our own. Every Saturday , we  12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had
gained while working  13  our father.
Taking care of lawns was not exciting  14  high-paying, but that didn't matter. It taught me that any
job is a good job and that 15 I was paid was more than I had before.
A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone  16  possible live on a forty-hour- a -week
minimum(最低的) pay. "My father never worked just forty hours a  17  , and neither have I." I replied.
"If you're only working forty hours, you probably don't want to do 18 better than you're doing."
In every job I've  19  -from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me
in my next job. If you  20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

(     )1. A. what       (     )2. A. farm       (     )3. A. excited   (     )4. A. played     (     )5. A. put out   (     )6. A. collected   (     )7. A. finally   (     )8. A. news       (     )9. A. right     (     )10. A. happen   (     )11. A. strong   (     )12. A. worked   (     )13. A. beyond   (     )14. A. and       (     )15. A. no matter how (     )16. A. must     (     )17. A. day       (     )18. A. some     (     )19. A. found     (     )20. A. see

B. that   B. family B. tired B. excised B. put down B. cleaned B. usually B. message B. quickly B. seem   B. old   B. set   B. without B. and yet B. whatever   B. should B. year   B. any   B. lost   B. work

C. which   C. business   C. troubled   C. worked     C. put away   C. missed   C. unexpectedly   C. information C. fast     C. fail     C. clever   C. turned   C. under   C. but     C. no matter what C. may     C. week     C. little   C. held     C. try

D. why             D. company         D. unpleasant     D. struggled       D. put in         D. noticed         D. firmly         D. word           D. wrong           D. begin           D. skilled         D. figured         D. like           D. or             D. however         D. could           D. month           D. very           D. helped         D. enjoy

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