题目内容

A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up her part-time job the day following his departure(起程).

“It was a shock,” said Suzette Boler, a 40-year-old mother of three. “I was hurt. I felt deserted by people I thought cared for me. I sat down on the floor and cried for probably two hours.” Officials at her former work place said that Boler was dismissed when she didn’t report to work the day after she said goodbye to her husband of 22 years. “We gave her enough time to get back to work,” Clark Galloway, president of operations for Benefit Management. He added that other causes were included but he didn’t say more.

On Oct.16, Boler went with her husband, Jerry Boler, 45, to an Indianapolis-area airfield, where he and others gathered to be sent to Fort Dix, N.J and then to Iraq. Suzette Boler had receives permission to take off work.

When Boler returned home from Indiana on the night of Oct. 16, she felt tired and told her bosses that she would try to return on Oct.17, but if she could not, she would surely be back on Oct.18. But on the afternoon of Oct.17, she receives a call from work telling her to come in the following day and get her things because she was fired. The reason was that she failed to show up for work on Oct.17.

“If I had known that I would be fired for not coming on Monday, I would have been there,” she said.

1. When Jerry Boler married Suzette Boler, he was ________.

  A. 18 years old  B. 20 years old  C. 22 years old  D. 23 years old

2. According to the passage, why did Benefit Management fire Suzette Boler?

  A. Completely because she was a part-time worker.

  B. Just because she didn’t ask for two days’’ leave.

C. Partly because she didn’t turn up on Monday.

D. Completely because she was late for her work.

3. The underlined word “there” in the last paragraph refers to ________.

A. Suzette Boler’s workplace          B. Iraq  

C. the Indianapolis-area airfield.        D. Fort Dix, NJ.

4. Which of the following will be the best title for the text

  A. A 40-year-old mother lost her part-time job.

  B. Woman fired after seeing husband off to war.

  C. There is no medicine for your regret.

  D. Strict boss unwillingly fired his employee.

 

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