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“Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers(职业). Gordon believes that about 30% of employees(雇员) in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied with their jobs find work that is good for them. Joanne says, “There are no happy jobs, only happy workers.” She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics.First, happy workers enjoy the daily activities of their jobs, and they look forward to the workday. Take Tony Hawk, for example. At age 14, he became a professional skateboarder. Now he is a businessman working on projects related to skateboarding—films and video games, but he still skates every day. He once said, “My youngest son’s pre-school was recently asked what their dads do for work. My son said, ‘I’ve never seen my dad do work.’” Tony agrees that his job doesn’t look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys.
Second, happy workers like the people they work with. Sally Ayote says, “I work with the coolest people in the world.” She and her group cook for almost 1,200 people in Antarctica. Most of these people are scientists who are doing research. Sally loves to sit and talk with them. She says, “There is no television here, no radio, so I get to know the scientists and what they’re studying.” Sally thinks she has a great job, and the best part about it is the people.
Third, happy workers know that their work helps others. Caroline Baron’s work helps people who have had to leave their home countries because of war or other dangers. She is a filmmaker who started an organization called FilmAid, which shows movies in refugee(难民) camps around the world. Caroline believes that movies can be very helpful in these camps. For one thing, entertaining movies let refugees forget their troubles for a little while. Movies can also teach important subjects like health and safety. For example, in one camp, thousands of refugees saw a movie about how to get clean water. Caroline knows that is helping other people, and this makes her feel proud and happy about her work.
Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron all get great satisfaction from their work. Tony Hawk says, “Find the thing you love. If you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.” Joanne Gordon would agree. She encourages people to find something they enjoy doing, find people they like to work with, and find ways to help others. Then they can be proud of what they do, and they will probably be happy at work.
小题1:Who is the book, Be Happy at Work, written for?
A.Joanne Gordon herself. |
B.Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron. |
C.People who do not feel satisfied with their jobs. |
D.The workers who agree with the author’s ideas. |
A.Because Tony Hawk’s job doesn’t look like work. |
B.Because Tony Hawk always finds something enjoyable in his job. |
C.Because Tony helps people forget their troubles while skating. |
D.Because the best part about his job is to spend each day skating. |
A.how to be a successful businessman |
B.how to help people in difficulties |
C.how to get along with the coolest people |
D.how to become a happy worker |
A.Some people believe that only a few kinds of jobs can really make people feel happy. |
B.The writer of the passage tells us that many different kinds of work can be enjoyable. |
C.The author of Be Happy at Work thinks that happiness at work is really important. |
D.Joanne Gordon believes that people will probably be happy at work when they are proud of what they do. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
试题分析:找到一份你喜爱的工作,你一生中的每一天都不是在生活中度过。本文讲述了快乐的工作者都具备的三个主要特征:享受他们工作的日常活动,期待工作日;喜欢和他们一起工作的人;懂得他们的工作帮助他人。
小题1:细节理解题。根据“Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers(职业).”可知Be Happy at work这本书的作者是Joanne Gordon 。而“ She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied with their jobs find work that is good for them.”则说明Joanne Gordon 是想帮助那些对工作不满意的人找到工作。所以这本书是写给那些对工作不满意的人的。故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据第二段“Tony agrees that his job doesn’t look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys.”可知他儿子说,从没见过他工作是因为Tony Hawk 总在工作中享受快乐。故答案选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据第一段“She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics.”可知作者具这三个例子就是要说明怎样成为快乐的工作者。故答案选D。
小题4:推理判断题。根据“Gordon believes that about 30% of employees(雇员) in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible.”可知选A。
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试题【“Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Do you agree wi】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Wranglers(争吵者) and Stranglers(扼***者)
Years ago there was a group of brilliant young men at the University of Wisconsin, who seemed to have amazing creative 36 talent. They were would-be poets, novelists, and essayists. They were extraordinary in their 37 to put the English language to its best use. These promising young men 38 regularly to read and critique (评论) each other"s work. And critique it they did!
These men were merciless with one another. They 39 the minutest literary expression into a hundred pieces. They were heartless, tough, even mean in their 40 .The sessions became such areas of literary criticism that the 41 of this special club called themselves the “Stranglers (扼***者)”.
In order to 42 , the women of literary talent in the university 43 to start a club of their own, one comparable to the Stranglers. They 44 themselves the “Wranglers (争论者)”.They, too, read their 45 one another. But there was one great difference. The criticism was much softer, more 46 , more encouraging. Sometimes, there was almost no criticism at all. Every effort, even the weakest one, was 47 .
Twenty years later an alumnus (男校友;男毕业生) of the university was making an exhaustive (详尽的;彻底的) 48 of his classmates" careers when he 49 a vast difference in the literary accomplishments of the Stranglers as opposed to the Wranglers. Of all the 50 young men in the Stranglers, no one had made a significant literary 51 of any kind. From the Wranglers had come six or more successful 52 , some of national renown (名望;声誉) such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who wrote The Yearling.
Talent between the two?Probably the same. Level of 53 ?Not much difference. But the Stranglers were strangled, while the Wranglers were determined to give each other a(an) 54 .The Stranglers 55 an atmosphere of argument and self-doubt. The Wranglers highlighted the best, not the worst.
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Amusement parks make most of their money from admission fees paid by guests attending the park. Other sources include parking fees, food and drink sales and souvenirs. Practically all amusement parks operate using one of two admission principles: Pay-as-you-go In this form, a guest enters the park at little or no charge. The guest must then buy rides one by one, either at the attraction’s entrance or by buying ride tickets. The cost of the attraction is often based on its complexity (复杂性) or popularity. The park may allow guests to buy unlimited admissions to all attractions within the park. A pass is then shown at the attraction entrance to gain admission.
Disneyland opened in 1955 using the pay-as-you-go form. Initially, guests paid the ride admission fees at the attractions. Soon, the problems of dealing with so many coins led to the development of a ticket system that, while now out of use, is still part of the amusement-park vocabulary. In this new form, guests bought ticket books that contained a number of tickets, with “A,” “B” and “C.” Rides and attractions using an “A-ticket” were generally simple, with “B-tickets” and “C-tickets” used for the larger, more popular rides. Later, the “D-ticket” was added, then finally the now-famous “E-ticket,” which was used for the biggest rides, like Space Mountain. Smaller tickets could be traded up for use on larger rides. Disneyland, as well as the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, gave up this practice in 1982.
The advantages include:
guests pay for only what they choose to experience
attraction costs can be changed easily
The disadvantages include:
guests may get tired of spending money almost continuously
guests may not spend as much on food or souvenirs
小题1:What is the passage mainly about?
A.Attractions of amusement parks |
B.Admission fees of amusement parks. |
C.Admission principles of amusement parks |
D.Sources of income of amusement parks. |
A.don’t pay at the gate of the park |
B.must pay for each ride they take |
C.have to pay for all rides in the park |
D.needn’t pay after entering the park |
A.Gradually. | B.At the beginning. | C.At last. | D.Commonly. |
A.The other admission principle |
B.Amusement parks’ earnings. |
C.Some other admission principles |
D.Users of the pay-as-you-go principle. |
To be sure, only children experienced some things differently from those with sisters and brothers. Many feel more pressure to succeed. In the absence of brothers and sisters, only children also tend to look more exclusively to their parents as role models.In India, 10-year-old Saviraj Sankpal founded a support group for the tiny minority of only children. Among other things, the group does volunteer work to counter the myth that they are not responsible. “People think we’re treated too kindly and ruined,” says Sankpal, a computer engineering student. “But I’d like to remind them how lonely it can get.”
Most only children, however, say they wish for sisters or brothers only when it comes to caring for aging, unhealthy parents. Britain’s David Emerson, coauthor of the book The Only Child, says that such a person bears a terrible burden in having to make all the decisions alone. Emerson knows from experience: After his father died, he chose to move his elderly mother from their family home, where she was vulnerable(易受攻击的) to house breakers, to a new one with more security. “The move was quite hard on her, and she might feel that I pushed her into it,” he says. “After all, I am left with that responsibility.”
In the future, more and more only children will likely face similar choices. With working mothers increasingly the rule, many families are finding they simply don’t have the time, money or energy to have more than one child. As only children become common, perhaps the world will realize that the charge made against them is unjust.
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It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s attitude towards only children is . A.critical | B.objective | C.hostile | D.unjust |
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It can be inferred from the passage that only children’s parents should .A.find a support group for their only children |
B.do volunteer work to help their only children |
C.let their only children make all the decision alone |
D.set good examples for their only children |
小题3:
Emerson decided to move his elderly mother to a new house because he .A.is the only one who cares about her |
B.doesn’t want to leave her alone |
C.wants to share the responsibility with her |
D.is worried about her safety |
小题4:
It is quite usual now for a working mother to .A.spend all her time and money on her only child |
B.be responsible for bringing up her only child |
C.have and bring up only one child |
D.devote all her energy to her job |
Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm when things do not go as one wants them to, or as one hopes they would, or even as one was sure they would. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.
A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reaction than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.
“The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept to understand than patience and a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like that I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said. “Things are just so different here.”
小题1:The passage mainly tells us ______.
A.about some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign countries |
B.about the three main ways to communicate with foreigners |
C.about some typical characteristics in different cultural experiences |
D.how to show your characters to foreigners |
A.The ability to keep cool. | B.The sense of humor. |
C.Patience. | D.The awareness of being unclear. |
A.not knowing what is happening in a situation |
B.not understanding the local language well enough |
C.being aware that the situation is unclear |
D.not knowing how some system or organization works |
A.he is not used to the culture of America |
B.he went to the United States to study the moon |
C.he is a person with a sense of humor |
D.he has just returned from the moon |
As small as the capsules are, they provide more than enough daily necessities(必需品) for visitors. They do have plenty of functions. Each includes independent power sockets, clocks, lights, and flat screen televisions. People can also enjoy wireless Internet service. The basic fee(费用) for each capsule is 28 yuan, and guests will be asked to pay an extra 4 yuan every hour. The highest cost could reach 88 yuan per day.
Ta Zan, capsule inn Manager, said, “Capsule inns are similar to Internet cafes. When they first appeared more than 10 years ago, people thought they might not succeed. But now it’s a common thing in our lives.” He believes that more capsule inns will open around the nation very soon. He is sure about the future of his business.
小题1:How much will you pay if you want to stay in a capsule inn for 12 hours?
A.88 yuan | B.76 yuan | C.28 yuan | D.4 yuan. |
A.价格 | B.功能 | C.方法 | D.需求 |
A.A family who like to cook by themselves. |
B.A young student who likes watching TV or surfing on the Internet. |
C.An old man who would like to stay in a big house with his wife. |
D.A business man who wants to have a meeting with others. |
A.Because he thinks they are similar in shape. |
B.Because he knows Internet cafes were popular 10 years ago. |
C.Because he thinks capsule inns are a common thing in our lives. |
D.Because he believes both will have good development. |
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