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When I was ten, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles. Even though we struggled to
make
1 meet, my parents stressed to me
2 fortunate we were to live in a great country with
3 opportunities. They imbued(灌输) in me the
4 of family, faith and love for our country.
The following year, my dad, Benjamin, injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was
5 as a hairstylist. He rented space in a shopping mall and gave his shop the fancy name of Mr Ben's Coiffiure.
The owner of the shopping center gave Dad a discount on his
6 for cleaning the parking lot three nights
a week, which
7 getting up at 3 a.m. To pick up trash, Dad used a little machine that looked like a lawn
mower (割草机)
8 Mom and I emptied garbage cans and picked up litter
9 I did this job for two years, but the lessons I learned have
10 a lifetime. I learnt discipline, a strong work
ethic and a
11 attitude towards life, I also learned at an early age the importance of
12 life's competing
interests-in my
13 , school, homework and a job. All
14 helped during my senior year of high school, when
I worked 40 hours a week at a fast-food restaurant while
15 precollege courses.
The hard work paid off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to get graduate
16 in law and
business from Harvard,
17 I joined a big Los Angeles law firm. In these jobs and in everything else I've done,
I have never forgotten those days in the parking lot. The experience has
18 me that there is dignity(尊贵) in
all work and that if people are working to
19 themselves and their families, that is something we should
20 .
( )1. A. ends ( )2. A. so ( )3. A. priceless ( )4. A. efforts ( )5. A. retired ( )6. A. sales ( )7. A. meant ( )8. A. since ( )9. A. with joy ( )10. A. proved ( )11. A. practical ( )12. A. developing ( )13. A. case ( )14. A. generally ( )15. A. applying ( )16. A. titles ( )17. A. after that ( )18. A. equipped ( )19. A. serve for ( )20. A. believe |
B. demands B. what B. resistless B. decisions B. resigned B. rent B. kept B. although B. on purpose B. impressed B. pleasant B. balancing B. example B. lately B. doing B. rules B. ever since B. prepared B. feed on B. honor |
C. challenges C. why C. limitless C. concepts C. replaced C. machine C. needed C. when C. by hand C. marked C. positive C. comparing C. dream C. really C. following C. chances C. after which C. taught C. provide for C. remember |
D. friends D. how D. sightless D. activities D. retrained D. shop D. started D. while D. in time D. lasted D. tolerant D. facing D. attempt D. typically D. taking D. degrees D. after then D. guided D. count on D. support |