Many years ago, one of the best engineers in the Notco Company in Australia was Mr. King. He had only worked there for five months, but already he was one of the best workers in the team. His job was to design new machines.
One day, Mr. King had an accident. A worker drove a small handtruck so carelessly that it hit the back of Mr. King's legs. Mr. King, whose legs were badly hurt, was quickly taken to hospital. There a doctor asked him to remove his trousers so that he could examine his legs. To everyone's surprise, Mr. King refused. Nobody could understand what the problem was. Finally, the doctor said to Mr. King gently, "Please tell me what the problem is. Unless you tell me, I shall not be able to help you.”
Mr. King looked carefully at the doctor. “Please don’t tell anyone else. If anyone at work discovers my secret. I shall lose my job. I’m not Mr. King. I'm Ms. King! I'm a woman! But I had to lie to the company and pretend to be a man in order to get a job.”
In fact, Mr. King's secret was discovered the same evening. The boss in whose department Mr. King worked had heard about the accident. He called at the hospital after work to find out whether Mr. King was better. To his surprise, the person at the front desk told him that his best worker had been put in Women's Room 31.
Ms. King had to tell her story to her boss, Mr. Pattis. “For months I tried to get a good job as an engineer, but it was impossible to get a job as a woman.”
“So I cut my hair short, bought some men's clothes, used a man's name and finally got a job in your company. Please let me stay in the company; I enjoy working there.”
注意：1．所续写的短文词数应为150左右；
2．应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3．续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语，已为你写好；
4．续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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The next day a meeting was held to discuss the problem of Ms. King.
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For a moment or two everyone was quiet.
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A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and hesitant. Late in the afternoon she summoned(鼓起)the courage to approach her employer. To her delight, the boss agreed to a raise.
The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home early and prepared a festive meal. She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off, or…did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down?
She found him in the kitchen and told him the good news. They embraced(拥抱)and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It read, “Congratulations, darling! I knew you’d get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you.”
Following the supper, her husband went into the kitchen to clean up. She noticed that a second card had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read, “Don’t worry about not getting the raise! You deserve it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you.”
Someone has said that the measure of love is when you love without measure. What this man feels for his wife is total acceptance and love, whether she succeeds or fails. His love celebrates her victories and soothes her wounds. He stands with her, no matter what life throws in their direction. He may say that he loves her to death. But he doesn’t. He loves her to LIVE, for his love nourished her life like nothing else can.
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“Never give up! Never give up!” shouted my young children Max and Charley, as they marched barefoot behind their grandmother Mimi.
Mimi was leading Max and Charley on yet another adventure, straight off the beach where they had spent the day building sand castles and splashing in the waves. This time, they were seeking the ice-cream truck that was difficult to catch.
Over the years, Mimi had become our family’s symbol of positively. It was a title she earned with a lot of efforts. Having been widowed (丧偶) at only forty years old and left to raise me and my ten-year-old brother alone, she faced heart-breaking tragedy powerful enough to cloud just about anyone’s optimistic outlook. She had been the one who had to make the decision to remove our dad from life support fourteen days after he was in a car accident.
She could have lived under a black cloud. Instead, she challenged herself to find joy every day. She was always up for a new challenge, whether that was hiking across the steep, rocky terrain of a mountaintop in Austria to get a better view of the breathtaking landscape, or signing up for tap-dancing classes at fifty. Leading by example, Mom taught us just how much one could accomplish with a positive attitude.
She has taken the same approach in her relationship with her grandchildren. She always encourages and pushes them through various “adventures”, from sand-castle building to ice-cream-truck catching. Before starting her adventure with Max and Charley on that hot July afternoon, Mimi heard the familiar clang of the ice-cream man’s bell from her beach chair. She turned and saw him briefly, spotting his green shirt and catching the light reflected from his waving bell before he turned and disappeared over the dunes. Happily, the ice-cream man’s visit is a daily occurrence at the beach, although the lag time between the sound of his bell and the departure of his truck is not long. One must be quick to catch him, or he will set off for the next stop.
注意：(1) 续写词数应为150左右；
(2) 开头已给出。
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Max and Charley were disappointed when they didn’t catch the ice-cream man in time.
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After about twenty minutes of walking, my kids’ faith in catching him began to weaken.
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提示：Smith先生碰到一个小偷，但对其却视而不见，警察向他打听情况，他不说真话，回到家后发现自家被盗。
注意：1.叙述必须包括图中所有信息，行文连贯通顺；
2.词数100左右。
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