完形填空 My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, Get up. You're going with me to
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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 idea1 my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his2 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 had5 a hard day's labour and had earned $6. One day my father found some leaves I'd6 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 8was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job 9the first time. It will never 10to impress the person you are working for. After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were11 enough to do lawns(草坪) on our own. Every Saturday , we12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had gained while working 13our father. Taking care of lawns was not exciting14 high-paying, but that didn't matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that15 I was paid was more than I had before. A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone 16possible live on a forty-hour- a -week minimum(最低的) pay. "My father never worked just forty hours a17, and neither have I." I replied. "If you're only working forty hours, you probably don't want to do 18better than you're doing." In every job I've19-from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do. | ||||
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