We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store.
11 we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than
12 and making a sale.
One lesson stands out in my
13 . It was shortly before Christmas. I was in eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was
14 a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed （磨破）and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me — too poor to
15 to buy anything. He looked
16 the toy section, picked up this item and
17 , and carefully put them
18 in their place.Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes
19 and the dimple（酒窝）in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas
_20____ to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his
21 and look around. He did.
After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy
22 , walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”
“How much you got?” Dad asked.
The little boy held out his hand and
23 it. His hand was creased(起皱) with
24 lines of dirt from holding his
25 too tightly. In his hand
26 two dimes, a nickel and two pennies—27 cents. The price on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98.
“That’ll just
27 it,” Dad said as he
28 the sale. Dad’s reply still
29 in my ears. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a happy child with a 30 .
| 小题1: | | A．Because | B．Since | C．As | D．After |
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| 小题2: | | A．survival | B．labor | C．hardship | D．entertainment |
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| 小题4: | | A．putting on | B．dressing | C．having | D．wearing |
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| 小题5: | | A．try | B．attempt | C．afford | D．manage |
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| 小题9: | | A．opened | B．smiled | C．shone | D．looked |
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| 小题10: | | A．tree | B．card | C．present | D．cake |
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| 小题11: | | A．effort | B．word | C．time | D．courage |
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| 小题12: | | A．car | B．gift | C．plane | D．section |
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| 小题13: | | A．showed | B．opened | C．gave | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．long | B．straight | C．wet | D．main |
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| 小题15: | | A．toy | B．pocket | C．hand | D．money |
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| 小题17: | | A．work | B．cover | C．need | D．take |
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| 小题18: | | A．took | B．returned | C．made | D．offered |
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| 小题19: | | A．rings | B．stays | C．remains | D．gets |
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| 小题20: | | A．bag | B．treasure | C．package | D．thing |
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