7 月英语四级听力篇章 2 真题(文都教育)Section CPassage TwoWhen I turned twelve, I worked summers at my father’s small brick cleaning business
I remember the harsh acid smell of the cleaning solution, and the scraping sound of stiff iron brushes against rough brick
It was tempting to have your job just finish
But anybody who worked for Thomas Kahoon had to meet his standards, and that include of me
If I messed up, he made me stay late until I got it right
My father wasn’t been me
He demanded the same at himself
Every brick he cleaned on the house stood out like a red jewel in a white setting
It was his signature
In 1970, when I was twenty, I got married
I moved out my parent's modest place into a housing project
Drugs and gang violent were just beginning to plague the projects
Some of my friend wen