My First JobJay Leno is a very famous TV host in NBCHe started his talk show titled The J

My First Job
Jay Leno is a very famous TV host in NBC．He started his talk show titled The Jay Lena Show in September 2009．It was a very popular TV programm in America．Here is the story of his first job．
I gained a very strong work concept from my parents, both of whom lived through a hard period of time-the Great Depression           （大萧条）．They couldn't     36     people who didn't work regularly．I once told my mom that Sylvester Stallone was getting $12 million for ten weeks of work．What's he going to do the rest of the _37    ? she asked．
I took my first job at Wilmington Ford near my homerown of Andover, Massachusetts, when I was 16．I worked until five or six o'clock on school days and __38    _ 12-hour days during the summer as a prepper（擦洗汽车的小工）．This meant washing and polishing the new cars, and making sure the paper floor mats were in     39    ．Another responsibility was taking off the hubcaps (车轮毂盖） at night, so they wouldn't get stolen, and    40   them the next day．This was    41    work because we had about seven acres of   42 One day, carrying an armful of hubcaps    43   a corner, I almost     44     our new general manager．Scared, I dropped them all．He     45 me on the spot．
I was too ashamed to tell my parents．Every day for about two weeks, I stayed __46  until evening．Then I would go home and say I had a ．    47     day at work．
Trying to make a last    48   ,  I wrote a letter to Henry Ford II and told him what happened．I said that we were a reliable Ford family and that when I was old enough, I was going to buy a Mustang． __49__ the owner of the dealership(经营店） called．I don't know who you know in Detroit． he said．but if you want your job back, you've  50 it.”
Later, during college, I wanted to work at a Roils-Royce dealership, but the owner said there were no openings．So 1 started washing cars there anyway．When the     _51__ noticed me, I said I was working until he _52     me．He did．And the second day, I started to work there as a sales clerk．
It   53   persistence (坚持） to succeed．Attitude    54_ matters．I have never thought I was better than anyone else, but I have always believed I couldn't be _ 55  ．
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