Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you'

    Pulling heavy suitcases allday in the summer is hard work, especially when you're a thin 14-year-old．That was me in 1940—the youngest and smallestbaggage boy at New York City’s Pennsylvania Railway Station.

    After just a few days onthe job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers.I’d like to join them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”

    When I got home that night,I told my dad what I wanted to do. “You give an honest day’s work,” he said,looking at me straight in the eye. “They’re paying you If they want to do that,you let them do that.”

    I followed my dad’s advicefor the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.

    Of all the jobs I’ve had,it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me.Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions.Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals,it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but notwith people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he’d be gone.

    Whether you’re on a sportsteam, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another,there’s going to be trouble.

    1. What can beinferred about the baggage boys?

A．They could earn much, but they had to workhard.

B．Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.

C．They were all from poor families.

D．They were all thin, young boys.

    2. What does thefather’s advice imply?

A．It is wrong to give more pay to thepassengers.

B．Don’t believe them if they are paying youmore.

C．Don’t follow others to overcharge thepassengers.

D．It is difficult to work hard and live as anhonest boy.

    3. The writer can’tput up with stealing because he thinks that

A．it is a totally shared experience

B．it is considered as the most dangerous

C．it does great harm to human relationship

D．it may lead to the loss of his sports team

    4. It can beconcluded from the text that

A．his father’s advice helped him to decidewhich job to take up

B．working in the sports team was his mostimportant experience

C．he learnt much from his shared experiencewith his team members

D．his experience as a baggage boy had a greatinfluence on his later life

试题答案

答案：B;C;C;D