Mr. Swales wanted to find out what his students' parents did. He had just called Jodie when some girls all 1 . Shirley, one of the students, shouted, "Jodie's daddy is a garbage (垃圾) man!"
Everyone in the 2 laughed out loudly, but not Jodie. She felt her face turned 3 .
"Silence!" Mr. Swales said, "It is a useful job. Being a garbage man is 4 . Jodie's father is hard-working and we all should be 5 to him."
Jodie walked home from school with her head down. When she returned home, her father asked 6 , "What happened, Jodie?" Jodie told her father what had happened and 7 him. He didn't seem angry or hurt. "Well," he said, "to see is to believe, maybe you should give it a try by 8 . Come with me this Sunday."
The place 9 so bad that Jodie covered her nose. However, everybody there was 10 hard, and they seemed to have a good time. Jodie's father handed her a pair of gloves to protect her 11 and told her to throw the little plastic bags into the truck.
She was so happy when there was no garbage left, 12 Jodie's arms got really tired. Her father said slowly, "Garbage is 13 , but when we clear it away, everything's nice and clean. That's why I like being a garbage 14 so much."
Jodie gave her smelly garbage dad a big hug (拥抱). She said, "Dad, you are great!"
Now whenever someone asks Jodie what her daddy does, she says 15 , "He's a garbage man! Everybody makes garbage, but my daddy takes it away! He's great!"
