第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)(原创)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, __21___when you’re a thin 14-year-old. That was 22 in 1940—the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsylvania Railway Station.
After just a few days on the job, I began 23 that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to 24 them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”
When I got home that night, I told my dad 25 I wanted to do. “You give an 26 day’s work,” he said, looking at me 27 in the eye. “They’re 28 you. If they want to do that, you let them do that.”
I 29 my dad’s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words 30 .
Of all the jobs I’ve had, it was my 31 at Pennsylvania. Railway Service that has 32 me. Now I teach my 33 to have respect for other people and their 34 . Being a member of a team is a totally 35 experience. If one person steals, it destroys 36 and hurts everyone. I can 37 many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he’d be 38 .
Whether you’re 39 a sports team, in an office 40 a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another, there’s going to be trouble.