Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you are a thin 14 year-old. That was me in 1940 -- the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsylvania Railway Station.
After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to join them, thinking," Everyone else is doing it."
When I got home that night, I told my father what I wanted to do. "You give an honest day’s work," he said, looking at me straight in my eyes. "They are paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that."
I followed my father’s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.
Of all my jobs I’ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that struck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a tot
A. They could earn much, but they must work hard.
B. Many of them earned their money in a dishonest way.
C. They were all from poor families.
D. They were all thin, young boys.
Long long ago, there were two men who had a very fierce quarrel. They argued for a long time, but still they couldn’t settle the problem. The incident occurred one morning outside Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in the African jungle. A patient who lived in the hospital had gone fishing in another man’s boat without permission. He succeeded in getting a tot of fish. Finding out what the patient had done, the owner of the boat thought that he should be given all the fish that were caught. Dr. Schweitzer said to the boat owner:
"You are right because the other man ought to have asked permission to use your boat. But you are wrong because you are careless and lazy. Though you have the boat, you don’t make good use of it. You merely twisted the chain of your canoe round a palm tree instead of fastening. it with a padlock. Of laziness you are guilty because you were asleep in your hut on this moonlit night instead of making use of the good opp
A. he was the judge there
B. it took place at his hospital
C. he wanted some of the fish
D. he wanted to help the patient
W: Who were those two men you were talking to
M: They own a shopping center.
W: A shopping center Where is it
M: It’s that new one down on the Peninsula, about ten miles from here.
W: Oh yes, I’ve heard about it.
M: They’d like to have someone open another restaurant in the center.
W: You’re not thinking of moving the restaurant again, are you
M: No, I’m thinking about opening a branch.
W: I’ve heard that business is quite good there.
M: Those men did a study of the number of people who pass through the center each day, and the result was good.
W: Well, why don’t we look into it
M: But do you think we’ll have enough time to manage another branch
W: We could get George and Jane to manage it.
M: Do you think they have enough experience
W: They’re old enough. And we’ve trained them like your parents trained
A. They worked in a restaurant.
B. They had a restaurant in the shopping center.
C. They owned a successful restaurant.
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