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  3. My father was foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio piedras, puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that plowed the

My father was foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio piedras, puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that plowed the

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问题     My father was foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio piedras, puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
    It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and loyal to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay.
    I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week, our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirt floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem, one of the most important things a person can have.
    When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never miss one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
    The more I dreamed, the more I thought, why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity I learned while working in the field except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.  
The word "tedious" in Paragraph 2 most probably means______.
选项 A、hard
B、boring
C、interesting
D、long
答案B
解析 文章第二段开始提到：It was very tedious‘work，but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons．这份工作虽然很令人厌烦，但是使我对生活作好了准备，为我上了终身受益的一课。从but一词可以看出这句话明显带有转折的语气，显然tedious的语气与后面“我”的收获相反，是否定的语气。上文提到，I would walk behind an ox，guiding him with a broomstick．For$1 a day，I worked eight hours straight，with no food breaks．我得在一头牛后面慢慢走，用一根帚柄引导它。一天1美元，我要一直工作8小时，没有用餐休息时间。这项工作劳动强度虽然不大，但是却很单调乏味。A．困难的，艰苦的；B．令人生厌的；C．有趣的；D．漫长的。故答案为B。
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