He choked on the last word, his breath labored as though he was struggling with a great weight.

Being a man of _________ and public spirit. Mr. Russell labored zealously to advance the interest of the community and was much interested in bringing new manufacturing interests to Waterloo.

My sister-in-law ____________ a healthy girl last night and the whole family were thrilled to welcome the new member. A: lived B: did C: delivered D: labored

The children are ______ as special needs group by the teacher because they have behavior disorder, which has bad effect on them. A: tagged B: labored C: labeled D: categorized

从下列句子中选出一句最好的表达 A: Every day, he labored from dawn to sundown, plowed his field, turned the soil, and tended to his pistachio (,开心果) trees.  B: Every day, he plowed his field and turned the soil, tending to his pistachio trees and laboring from dawn to sundown. C: Every day, he labored from dawn to sundown, plowing his field, turning the soil and tending to his pistachio trees. D: Every day, laboring from dawn to sundown, plowing his field, and turning the soil, he tended to his pistachio trees.

Vocabulary ExerciseFill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words chosen from the box. Changethe forms where necessary.（注意词形变化） sponsor approximately reflect temporarily donateprofit generous trait dual investment 1. Unless they can find a _______, they will be forced to retire from athletics. 2. If these suggestions are followed, we should be able to save _______ $26 000 in thecoming year in salaries alone. 3. The United States court system, as part of the federal system of government, is characterized by _______ hierarchies: both state and federal courts. 4. The returns in the short term may be small, but over a number of years the _______ will bewell repaid. 5. For the developing countries, using the land is a means to ______ avoid worsening povertyand starvation. 6. John makes me want to do things for him because of his ______ nature. 7. The study found that some alcoholics had clear personality ______ showing up in earlychildhood. 8. We want a future for the next generation which will ______ the highest ideals for which wehave labored. 9. Kamen has persuaded some large companies to ______ money and engineers to work withthe young people. 10. This report found that the leading concern of young farmers was earning a ______.

①When I was a boy growing up off the grid in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the men I knew labored with their bodies from the first rooster crow in the morning to sundown. ②They were marginal farmers, shepherds, just scraping by, or welders, steelworkers, carpenters; ③they built cabinets, dug ditches, mined coal, or drove trucks, their forearms thick with muscle. ④They trained horses, stocked furnaces, made tires, stood on assembly lines, welding parts onto refrigerators or lubricating car engines. ⑤In the evenings and on weekends, they labored equally hard, working on their own small tract of land, fixing broken-down cars, repairing broken shutters and drafty windows. ⑥In their little free time, they drowned their livers in beer from cheap copper mugs at a bar near the local brewery or racecourse. (Para.1) ①The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and wounded in ways visible and invisible. ②Heavy lifting had given many of them spinal problems and appalling injuries. ③Some had broken ribs and lost fingers. ④Racing against conveyor belts had given some ulcers. ⑤Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on concrete. ⑥Some had partial vision loss as the glow of the welding flame damaged their optic receptors. ⑦There were times, studying them, when I dreaded growing up. ⑧All around us, the fathers always seemed older than the mothers. ⑨Men wore out sooner, being martyrs of constant work. ⑩Only women lived into old age. (Para.2) ①There were also soldiers, and so far as I could tell, they scarcely worked at all. ②But when the shooting started, many of them would die for their patriotism in fields and forts of foreign outposts. ③This was what soldiers were for - they were tools like a wrench, a hammer or a screw. (Para.3) These weren't the only destinies of men, as I learned from having a few male teachers, from reading books and from watching television. But the men on television - the news commentators, the lawyers, the doctors, the politicians who levied the taxes and the bosses who gave orders - seemed as remote and unreal to me as the figures in old paintings. I could no more imagine growing up to become one of these sophisticated people than I could imagine becoming a sovereign prince. (Para.4)