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 ____.
A.attempts B.judgements C.expectations D.requests
A.planted B.buried C.grown D.stuck
A.house B.school C.garden D.company
A.look forward to B.come up with C.fit in with D.get down to
A.watching B.thinking C.digging D.working
A.turned down B.laid off C.cut down D.given up
A.competitors B.colleagues C.directors D.consultants
A.frankly B.naturally C.equally D.generally
A.hurry up B.turn up C.pack up D.come up
A.Since B.When C.Unless D.While
A.sadness B.puzzle C.anger D.delight
A.tears B.smiles C.dangers D.fears
A.upsetting B.exciting C.disappointing D.amazing
A.objected to B.insisted on C.ended up D.kept on
A.birth B.death C.arrival D.party
A.view B.recognize C.choose D.describe
A.discouraged B.warned C.inspired D.amused
A.celebrated B.witnessed C.resisted D.survived
A.made up B.summed up C.picked up D.speeded up
A.disagreement B.indifference C.admiration D.approval