If you're going to do something, my dad used to say, do it right.
Mostly he said that after my halfhearted (不尽力的) ____ to weed the vegetable garden. For some reason, he knew that there were white roots still ____ deep in the ground without looking around the garden. So I would be in the ____ again the next day with a spade dig deep and ____ the roots of our garden. As I tried to focus my attention to ____， Dad's words kept echoing in my mind: “Do it right.”
I saw a perfect example of what Dad was talking about last week when one of the teams in the company was ____. All of us were sad to see them go. They were good friends and ____， and we worried about them. And ____， at such times you always wonder: am I next?
But as we watched them during the week they were given to ____， many of us noticed that they weren't handling this in quite the way we expected them to. ____ none of them found another job, there was also no bitterness or ____ in their departure. I didn't hear a negative word. I didn't see any ____ or unhappy faces—at least, not from them. Instead, I saw grace.
“It's ____，” one of my colleagues whispered. “I went over there to offer comfort and support to them, and they ____ comforting me.”
Ancient Greeks believed that swans save their sweetest song for the moments to their ____. I don't know if my departing friends ____ their ending as a “swan song” or not, but the calm, quiet dignity with which they embraced their cruel reality touched and ____ us.
Lee, a man who has seen and ____ lots of layoffs during almost 40 upanddown, onagainoffagain years with the company, ____ nicely for all of us.
“Now, that's doing it right，” he said.
Somewhere, I just know Dad was smiling his ____.
| 【小题1】 | | A．attempts | B．judgements | | C．expectations | D．requests |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．planted | B．buried | | C．grown | D．stuck |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．house | B．school | | C．garden | D．company |
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| 【小题4】 | | A．look forward to | B．come up with | | C．fit in with | D．get down to |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．watching | B．thinking | | C．digging | D．working |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．turned down | B．laid off | | C．cut down | D．given up |
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| 【小题7】 | | A．competitors | B．colleagues | | C．directors | D．consultants |
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| 【小题8】 | | A．frankly | B．naturally | | C．equally | D．generally |
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| 【小题9】 | | A．hurry up | B．turn up | | C．pack up | D．come up |
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| 【小题10】 | | A．Since | B．When | | C．Unless | D．While |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．sadness | B．puzzle | | C．anger | D．delight |
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| 【小题12】 | | A．tears | B．smiles | | C．dangers | D．fears |
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| 【小题13】 | | A．upsetting | B．exciting | | C．disappointing | D．amazing |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．objected to | B．insisted on | | C．ended up | D．kept on |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．birth | B．death | | C．arrival | D．party |
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| 【小题16】 | | A．view | B．recognize | | C．choose | D．describe |
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| 【小题17】 | | A．discouraged | B．warned | | C．inspired | D．amused |
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| 【小题18】 | | A．celebrated | B．witnessed | | C．resisted | D．survived |
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| 【小题19】 | | A．made up | B．summed up | | C．picked up | D．speeded up |
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| 【小题20】 | | A．disagreement | B．indifference | | C．admiration | D．approval |
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试题答案
【小题1】A
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】D
【小题5】C
【小题6】B
【小题7】B
【小题8】A
【小题9】C
【小题10】D
【小题11】A
【小题12】A
【小题13】D
【小题14】C
【小题15】B
【小题16】A
【小题17】C
【小题18】D
【小题19】B
【小题20】D
解析
