2022年河南专升本公共英语练习题（12）

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My father was a forman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Picdras, Puertro
Rieo. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would
walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight
hours straight, with no food breaks.

It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many
lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to
be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I've never been late for any job
since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work
for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick
just because I didn't want to work.

I was only six years old, but I was doing a man's job. Our family needed every
dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week.
Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing
made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two
brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem( 自 尊 心 ) , one of the most
important things a person can have.

When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to
stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could
find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights
I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and