Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father 36 him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The 37 was to get James a job.
James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the 38 had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 39 were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 40 a thickened air, and the workers, 41 the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 42 the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly 43 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t 44 at him, too.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 45 if there was any work for his son. But 46 there was hardly enough 47 for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job.
Thus, for James, it was a 48 . He hated the place. He made a 49 that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought 50 to someone else, and he would never allow himself to 51 money off the seat of others.
“What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he 52 say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like 53 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the 54 of blood.
“What will you do?”
55 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.
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--- What do you think of these dictionaries?
--- Most of them are updated. Still, ______ is so suitable for high school students as Multifunction English – Chinese Dictionary.
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A．nothing |
B．neither |
C．any |
D．None |
The boss took no notice of the suggestion given by the clerk that the new technology _____ the problems on conveying the products.
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A．be applied to solve |
B．be applied to solving |
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C．applies to solving |
D．applies to solve |
—What is the meaning of the saying “Whenever you fall, pick something up?”
—It tells us to hope even when coming across failure ; try to learn something valuable from it.
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A．look for |
B．call for |
C．take up |
D．give up |
--Guess what! Tan Weiwei failed in the last round of the Super Girl Contest.
---How _______ it be? She is second to none in singing in my opinion.
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A．shall |
B．might |
C．can |
D．must |
The national parks are very important for the protection of these wild animals, which would ______ run the risk of becoming extinct.
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A．therefore |
B．instead |
C．otherwise |
D．anyhow |
