Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father 36 him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The 37 was to get James a job.
James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the 38 had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 39 were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 40 a thickened air, and the workers, 41 the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 42 the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly 43 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t 44 at him, too.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 45 if there was any work for his son. But 46 there was hardly enough 47 for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job.
Thus, for James, it was a 48 . He hated the place. He made a 49 that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought 50 to someone else, and he would never allow himself to 51 money off the seat of others.
“What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he 52 say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like 53 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the 54 of blood.
“What will you do?”
55 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.
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(答案→)C
解析：四十年过去了，我最敬爱的老师，他的音容笑貌我至今仍记忆犹新。他那段特殊的人生经历更是令我们无法忘怀。
【小题1】C。从上下文可知，父亲把他带到自己的单位。take是“把……带往”的意思。
【小题1】A。从下文看，父亲带他去工厂，目的是要给儿子找一份工作。idea指“想法；计划，打算，意图”，所以选A。
【小题1】B。詹姆斯一进工厂，就感到工厂的院墙好像要压过来。close in迫近；包围，笼罩。
【小题1】D。从上下文看，工厂的工作环境非常糟糕，屋子里阴暗闷热，窗户上落满灰尘，机器密密麻麻地排列着，隆隆作响。
【小题1】B。从上下文获知，绒毛在空中飞舞，空气异常的浓重。create创造，造成。
【小题1】C。这是一家皮革厂，工人们把一块块的皮子缝在一起。sew缝合，缝上。
【小题1】A。从文中可以看出，工人们都在老板的监视下工作。as当……的时候，在……的同时。
【小题1】B。这里的工作环境和工作气氛简直让詹姆斯感到窒息。所以选A。
【小题1】A。詹姆斯愣愣地站在父亲身边，非常害怕，希望老板不会冲他大喊大叫。scream尖叫。
【小题1】B。午饭的时候，父亲把儿子带到老板面前，问是否可以为儿子找份工作。
【小题1】A。但是在经济大萧条的时候，即使成年人都几乎没有足够的就业机会。even甚至；即使。
【小题1】C。work此处表示工作机会。
【小题1】B。从下文来看，父亲没有为儿子找到工作，詹姆斯感到万分庆幸，因为他痛恨这里。blessing幸事，喜事；福气，运气。
【小题1】D。从下文看，詹姆斯决心将自己的喜好坚持到底。make a promise许诺，承诺。
【小题1】B。他绝不会做伤及他人的事情。harm伤害；损害。
【小题1】A。他也绝不会榨取别人的血汗钱。make money挣钱，赚钱。
【小题1】D。从上文“his mother，Eva，would ask him”可知，此处应填写would。
【小题1】B。从上文可知，詹姆斯不想学习法律专业，因为他不喜欢当律师。
【小题1】C。詹姆斯不想从事医学专业，因为他见不得血。
【小题1】A。最终，詹姆斯做了老师，一个他自认为不会伤害任何人的职业。eventually最后，终于。