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A Trash Collector’s Work is Never Done

Brian Kane was a trash collector in Denver, Colorado. Year after year, (A)________ Brian rode on the back of a garbage truck through the streets of this city. At each stop, he would jog quickly to the back of buildings, then drag heavy trash cans to the truck. Brian never complained – even (B)________ or cold wind turned his fingers into sticks of ice.

Brian saw these hardships (C)________. His job was actually a training ground for his lifelong dream: to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. On his thirtieth birthday, Brian took a three-month leave from his job and flew to Nepal. There he began the long, difficult journey up Mount Everest.

Brian first climbed to a base camp. He stayed there for a couple of weeks (D)________. Brian had also planned to bring three oxygen canisters with him to the summit, at 29,028 feet, it would be hard to survive without extra oxygen. Over the next two months, Brian climbed to 26,000 feet, to Camp Four – the last place to rest below the summit. But when Brian saw this camp, he gasped and fell to his knees.

“Trash!” he cried. Nearly a thousand empty oxygen canisters littered the camp area. Humans had turned this beautiful remote place into a giant trash heap. Nevertheless, (E)________, Brian continued to follow his dream. Two days later he stood proudly on the peak of Mt. Everest. He had reached the “roof of the world”!

Two days after this great achievement, Brian stuffed a dozen empty oxygen canisters in his pack and headed down the mountain. He smiled to himself (F)________ that the work of a trash collector is never done.
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  1. to get used to the thinner air
  2. eight hours a day, five days a week
  3. as he realized
  4. sad, but determined
  5. whatever happens in the future
  6. as opportunities to become strong and fit
  7. when sweat stung his eyes
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