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My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, "Get up. You're going with me to cut grass." The idea 1 my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his 2 made me feel proud and 3 . From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I 4 in the large yards in a rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good. I had 5 a hard day's labour and had earned $6. One day my father found some leaves I'd 6 and pulled me aside. "Clear away these leaves," he said 7 , "and don't make me have to tell you to do it again." The 8 was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job 9 the first time. It will never 10 to impress the person you are working for. After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were 11 enough to do lawns(草坪) on our own. Every Saturday , we 12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had gained while working 13 our father. Taking care of lawns was not exciting 14 high-paying, but that didn't matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that 15 I was paid was more than I had before. A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone 16 possible live on a forty-hour- a -week minimum(最低的) pay. "My father never worked just forty hours a 17 , and neither have I." I replied. "If you're only working forty hours, you probably don't want to do 18 better than you're doing." In every job I've 19 -from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you 20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do. | ||||
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My husband Jack hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___16___, but the commercial aspects of it. Knowing he felt this ______17___, I decided one year to___18___the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something _____19__just for Jack. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was______20______at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match____21_____a team sponsored by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so_______22_____that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together,____23______our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was_____24_____to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet designed to____25_____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not_____26_____ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ______27_____up from the mat, they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit______28______.
Jack, seated beside me, shook his head_____29_____, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but______30_____like this could take the heart right out of them.” Jack loved_____31_____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the ____32______for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _____33______some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Jack what I had done and that this was his_______34_____from me. His smile was the_______35______ thing about Christmas that year.
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