考生须知：

参考教材：《英语（二）自学教程》，外语教学与研究出版社，张敬源、张虹 主编，2012年版。

第一部分：阅读判断。

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（推荐做题步骤：首先要理解标题，据此推测文章的大意。其次，快速通读全文，尽可能理解文章大意，然后阅读题目，划出题目的关键词，再定位到原文去查找相关内容。）

（一）Work Is a Blessing

I grew up in Lakeland, LA, one of 12 children. We all lived on my parents' subsistence farm. We grew cotton, sugar cane, corn, hogs, and chickens and had a large garden, but it didn't bring in much cash. So when I was 12, I got a part-time job on a dairy farm down the road, helping to milk cows. We milked 65 cows at 5 in the morning and again at 2 in the afternoon, seven days a week.

In the kitchen one Saturday before daylight; I remember complaining to my father and grandfather about having to go milk those cows. My father said, “Ya know, boy, to work is a blessing.”

I looked at those two men who had worked harder than I ever had — my father eking out a living on that farm and my grandfather farming and working as a carpenter during the Depression1. I had a feeling I had been told something really important, but it took many years before it sank in.

Going to college was a rare privilege for a kid from Lakeland. My father told me if I picked something to study that I liked doing, I'd always look forward to my work. But he also added, "Even having a job you hate is better than not having a job at all." I wanted to be a farmer, but I joined the ROTC2 program to help pay for college. And what started out as an obligation to the Army became a way of life that I stayed committed to for 37 years, three months and three days.

In the late 1980s, during a visit to Bangladesh, I saw a woman with a baby on her back, breaking bricks with a hammer. I asked a Bangladesh military escort why they weren't using a machine, which would have been a lot easier. He told me a machine would put that lady out of work. Breaking those bricks meant she could earn enough money to feed herself and her baby that day. And as bad as that woman's job was, it was enough to keep a small family alive. It reminded me of my father's words: To work is a blessing.