Together, the employer and the employees pay over million dollars each year in state and local taxes. Together, they provide materials for about one-fourth of the automobiles produced in the United States. Together, they have showered stockholders with over a half-million dollars in dividends(股息) in the past five years. Together, they make up Karson Manufacturing(制造厂), the area’s largest employer. Karson Manufacturing began as a garage operation when, in 1952, the late Rodney Karson started machining parts for local businesses. As business developed, he moved to the present location on Oak Road. But the site was hardly the same then as today. Photographs in the 1962 edition of the Daily News show the company as little more than a series of one-story brick buildings, obviously added as needed. Not until 1983 did the present facility begin to take shape. Additions in 1998 and 2003 resulted in today’s facility. George Hatman, vice-president of the manufacturing, began with the company in 1958. "I still remember my interview with Mr. Rodney Karson. He wore a blue work shirt, sleeves rolled up, with black suspenders holding up his work pants. He looked like all the rest of the workers except for his hat. He wore this funny bowler with a red hat band. Usually he kept a pencil stuck in the hat band. Don’t know why. Never saw him use it. But that’s the way he showed up for the interview. Funny, but I’d worn my best suit. Thought I should try to impress him. " "We didn’t talk long. He asked me a few questions about experience. I didn’t have any but I was willing to work. So you know what he said He said, ’Well, get yourself home, son, and put on some work clothes. Come back this afternoon and we’ 11 see what you’re made of. ’That’s what I did and I’m still here. " Hatman believes that Karson’s philosophy made the company what it is today. "He thought if you wanted to work, you were a good man to have on the team. And that’s what we have here—a team. We all pull together, work together, make decisions together, show success together. It’s really a good team to be on!" And together, the Karson team today announced a six-million-dollar new development plan. As a result, the local community as well as Karson will grow. Together. It can be inferred from the passage that the late Rodney Karson ______.
A. was a philosopher
B. wrote a book on success
C. was admired for his wealth
D. believed in the value of work
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. After breakfast one Saturday morning in the orphanage(孤儿院), when I was a little boy, I saw the house parent chasing the beautiful butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes around the orphanage. I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet. How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close. When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly that he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away hut it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just quivered. The house parent came back and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can and then he left. I sat there in the dirt, trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old shoe box and I buried them near the blackberry bushes. Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and drive them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die. The house parent was very angry because he believed the boy had ______.
A. killed the butterfly
B. damaged his work
C. spread butterfly pieces everywhere
D. pinned the butterfly on the cardboard