Every year, almost 2 million Americans are injured while they’re ________ work. Every day, 240 are killed on the job. The ________ job is cutting down trees. Being a policeman is safer than many jobs, including driving a truck, collecting garbage and ________ airplanes. One of the safest jobs is being a librarian.

The government inspects (检查) most factories and offices. Employers have to ________ fines if their factories or offices are unsafe. In California, employers often go to prison if one of their workers is killed because a factory didn’t ________ safety measures. But President Bush cut down the number of government inspectors ________ 15 percent. Many people say working is less safe ________.

For women workers, the greatest danger so far is murder. Forty-two percent of all ________ who die at work were killed. Many of them work as clerks in stores ________ they are by themselves at night. Experts say they can protect themselves by putting the cash desk in full ________ of the street.

The numbers of deaths and accidents at work don’t take into consideration people who become sick from ________ that they are exposed to at work. Doctors don’t know ________ some chemicals cause illness.

There are no government rules for many new chemicals.

Inspectors say employers ________ their backs on safety problems because they don’t want to pay the bill for fixing them. They also say some workers don’t want to complain about dangers because they may ________ their jobs.

The government should force business to improve safety. There’s no excuse for workers dying or ________ in an accident that could have been prevented.

Ma Hongda, a 22-year-old, became the first Chinese to win gold in the Plastering (抹灰) and Drywall Systems Event at the WorldSkills Competition 2022 in France. Hearing the news, the Chinese team _________ with joy.

Ma is a student _________ in architectural decoration from Zhejiang Construction Technician College. He was _________ into the college’s center for training candidates for the competition five years ago and he has trained hard to improve his skills and get _________ for the competition.

Every morning at five, he arrives at the center and _________ more than ten hours. As he has to gather all the muscles of his body during training, _________ those on his hands, he has _________ countless gloves. And to relieve the pressure on his hand muscles caused by longtime _________, he needs to undergo medical treatment regularly.

Many people think plastering does not require _________ technical knowledge, but an international competition does not allow an operating __________ of more than 1 millimeter. Ma told The Beijing Times that the __________ used to plaster every time differs and it requires contestants to __________ experience from day-to-day practice.

In Ma’s __________, highly skilled technical workers are those who insist on their professional areas and make __________ to the society. “No matter what industry they are engaged in, they will __________ as long as they keep learning and are dedicated to their professions,” Ma said.