The team I work in just had two new interns, and I happened to be their supervisor. It was 12:30 after today’s lunch break, and one of them __16__things on her smartphone, maybe on some social network, I guessed. I went to her and said “There’s another article here needing translation. Do you have time to finish it for me?”
That article was not her workload. But I thought that maybe I could let her challenge __17__a little bit with it, seeing that she seemed to have time. “Yes, I do have time,” she said, “but I’m just an intern.” I didn’t quite know __18__ to say back then. After a while I said, “Right. Yes.” And I __19__ and left.
I recalled the time when I was an intern for the first time. I, too, __20__ to finish my workload so fast, just like her. So I asked my supervisor “Is there __21__ that I can help?” And she happened to have a plan to make. But she didn’t have time. So she let me do the research and make a draft for her. I was not very familiar with the job but still tried my best to work it out and make it as __22_ as possible. And my supervisor was really satisfied with the draft. Later, she told me, “You saved me a lot of time. I didn’t need to create it from draft.” And she also told me how I should have done the plan __23__. I learned a lot about the operation in the process. After that, she had come to trust me completely. And __24__ her recommendation, I got my present job. Yes, I was just an intern with little working __25__. But I bought a better future with my hard work. There’s a kind of poverty called short-sightedness.