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 pany 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 fort and support to them, and they forting 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 pany, nicely for all of us.
“Now, that's doing it right，” he said.
Somewhere, I just know Dad was smiling his .
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解析：文章大意：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文，作者通过小时候清除菜园杂草的经历以及公司里几个被解雇的同事的表现，向我们诠释了“Do it right”的内涵。
【小题1】答案：A 父亲大多是在“我”没有尽力尝试清除菜园的杂草时说这句话。attempt“努力，尝试”，符合语境。
【小题2】答案：B 根据上下文可知，此处表示“父亲知道仍然有一些白色的根深埋在土里”，故buried符合语境。
【小题3】C 因此第二天，我总是又在花园里，拿着铁锹，认真除去我们菜园里的杂草。
【小题4】D 根据上题解析。Get down to表示开始认真做某事，符合语境；A盼望；B想起；A期待。根据句义说明D正确。
【小题5】C 由上句中的with a spade dig deep可知，此处表示在我专心挖草根的后死后，父亲的话一直在我的脑海里回响。故C正确。
【小题6】B 根据文章中all of us were sad to see them go及lots of lay-offs可知，此处表示我们公司的一个团队被解雇了。Lay off解雇，符合上下文语境。
【小题7】答案：B 由上下文可知，此处表示“他们是我们的好朋友和好同事”。
【小题8】A并且，老实说，在那样的时候，你会想知道：我是否是下一个呢？因为同事被解雇，所以在那个时候，每个人都会担心自己是否会被解雇了。故frankly老实说，符合上下文语境。
【小题9】C上文同事说到自己被解雇了，所以此处是给他们一周的时间收拾东西，故pack up收拾行李。符合语境。
【小题10】答案：D 根据上下文可知，空处所在句和后一句之间是让步关系，因此选while，表示“尽管”。尽管没有一个人找到其他的工作，但是他们也没有痛苦或难过。
【小题11】答案：A 根据语境可知，此处应该选一个与bitterness意思相近的词语，因此选sadness。
【小题12】答案：A “我”没有从他们脸上看见眼泪和难过的神色。
【小题13】D 根据上文中的内容和后一句同事的话，可知此处表示我的一个同事认为被解雇的同事的表现是令人惊奇的。
【小题14】C 此处表示我的一个同事是去给他们安慰和支持的，结果最后他们反而来安慰我的那个同事。End up with意为：以…为结果，以…告终；符合语境。
【小题15】B 根据上下文语境可知，此处把同事们离职前的淡定和天鹅临死时的歌唱做一个对比。故选择death。
【小题16】A 我不知道我要离开的时候朋友们是否把他们的离开视为一首天鹅之歌。View...as...把...视为...；以...看待。符合语境。
【小题17】C 他们用来拥抱残酷事实的这种淡定和大度，感动和激励着我们。Inspire激励，符合语境。
【小题18】D 根据上下文可知，此处应该使用survived表示艰难度过，幸存；即：Lee见到过也经历过很多次解雇。
【小题19】答案：B Lee为我们做了很好的总结。sum up意为“总结”，符合上下文语境。
【小题20】D由上文可知，这位老同事说的话和我父亲说的话是一样的，因此此处表示我知道父亲一定在某处微笑着表示赞同。故D正确。