阅读理解Just as there are teachers who simply go through the motions and drag us through the material inorder to complete a required course, there are companies and jobs and bosses that do the same. Thatdoesnt mean you have to live with it. Avoid those fear-run workplaces. Quit those jobs. Ask yourfriends about where they work, or about companies theyve read about or heard about where passion,excitement, and human energy are valued above all else. In those places, you will find that fear is notprimary motivator for getting to results.Although Ive found that most organizations do not focus on their culture, there are also a significantnumber of companies who are quite clear about what they are trying to achieve. Those companieshave a mission and a purpose in what they do. The people who work there are focused not onthemselves, but on those they serve. They are working on something much bigger than themselves. Ilearned to love my job by connecting it to joy: joy for our customers, joy for the end users of ourproducts, joy for my team, and personal joy in what we were doing.Many believe this kind of mission focus can only occur in the non-profit world. This couldnt befurther from the truth. There are successful purpose-driven private and public corporations, large andsmall. They are still rare, though, so it wont necessarily be easy to find them, but it is worth yourtime to pursue this search. Some of you will be inclined to do what I ultimately did and start yourown firm, with its own mission and purpose. Entrepreneurship for me was the enabler of a noble yetselfish pursuit: I wanted to create a company that I loved. I created my own fulfilling job, but itwould only be fulfilling to me if it were also rewarding for those who worked around me.To learn to love your job, its important to find a job where learning is a requirement to success.Learning produces joy, regardless of the industry youre in. Become a student again. Read books,study organizations, and stretch yourself to try new things. If you are in a technical or a support role,volunteer for sales support assignments and watch how your company interacts with its customers.Sign up for trade show booth duty and learn what others in the world are seeking from firms likeyours. Learn to present in front of others. Sign up to speak at conferences, and then go listen to otherspeakers. Find the ideas, the people and the companies that inspire you.
阅读理解Passage Four
Serenity (宁静）is difficult to find in todays fast-paced world
阅读理解In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. Many of life''s problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today.
In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War Ⅱ. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus, things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned.
Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming.
Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled Without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people.
In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. "Knowledge is power" may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people.
阅读理解Questions 51 to 60 are based on the following passage
阅读理解 With the usual flood of immigrants from non-English-speaking countries, there comes a multi-cultural work force. Along with this diversity comes resentment felt by natives in the marketplace. Feelings of antagonism surface when accents are strong and foreign languages are used that some workers cannot understand. There is now a clash of forces in the workplace; the battle is centered on English-only policies. A growing number of workers are alleging discrimination on the basis of language. The federal law prohibiting job discrimination comes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title Ⅶ), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. National-origin discrimination makes it illegal to discriminate against an individual because of birthplace, ancestry, and culture or linguistic characteristics common to a specific ethnic group. A rule requiring that employees speak only English on the job may violate Title VII unless an employer shows that the requirement is necessary for conducting the business. If the employer believes such a rule is necessary, employees must be informed of when English is required and the consequences for violating the rule. Donna Fernandez, language rights attorney at the Employment Law Center of San Francisco, finds that language discrimination is very prevalent in the workplace. Fernandez states that the biases may include 'English-only policies when the employee's primary language is other than English' or 'some people may be treated differently because they speak with an accent.' It is illegal for an employer to discriminate against an employee because of language. However, the increase in language discrimination suits indicates that employers are treating employees speaking with an accent or in a foreign language differently. 'Many companies don't know they are breaking the law with the English-only policies,' says Fernandez. The law in this area is still developing and many courts consider these policies to be a form of discrimination on the basis of race or national origin. (National origin refers to the country that a person, or that person's ancestors, came from.) Employees can challenge a speak-English-only policy if: the rule is applied to employees who speak no English; they have difficulty speaking English; or the policy creates, or is part of, a work environment that is hostile toward national origin minority employees. An employer must show some 'business necessity' for the policy. Even if there is a business need, the policy is still illegal if there are less discriminatory alternative to the policy. Sibylle Gruber, assistant professor of English at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz., finds that employees may feel they are viewed as less intelligent if they cannot speak English perfectly. 'Workers may miss out on promotions to positions of authority if they can't express themselves or communicate clearly,' says Gruber. Often, there are subtle prejudices against some accents more than others. Speaking with a French or British accent is less frowned upon than a Spanish or Vietnamese accent. By not promoting employees because of an accent or language bias, a ghetto effect is created in the work force, keeping certain accents and immigrants in low-level positions.
阅读理解Passage 2
When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up
阅读理解Passage ThreeIn the race to the moon, who came in first?You might say the answer is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the crew ofApollo 11.Or you could represent for the crew of Apollo 10, which reached the moon in May1969 and then headed back to Earth without landing. But there is a much stranger answer to this question, depending on how much you careabout humans and what your definition ( 定 义 ) of reaching the moon might be. Before anypeople arrived at the moon, other animals had got there first. And unlike the dogs and monkeys that were made famous in early space shots and Earth orbits, the first creatures to reach themoon were a pair of tortoises, Discovery 's Amy Shira Teitel reminded us.The Soviet spacecraft (航天器) sent the animals around the moon -although not intoits orbit-during a mission in the middle of September, 1968. The unmanned (无人驾驶的) craft then returned to Earth and dashed into the Indian Ocean, after which the Russians recovered the craft. A month later, Soviet scientists revealed that the spacecraft had been a tiny ship, carryingthe tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter. The tortoises, as history records, lost about 10 percent of their body weight, but hadahealthy appetite when they returned to Earth. In the following checkups comparing the animals to“stay-at-home turtles used as a test control, ”most things seemed normal, aside fromsomevaguely explained minor problems with the liver. What this all means is that, as Teitel explained,“The first living beings to see an Earthrisefrom the Moon were Russian tortoises. However, as far as I can tell, the animals were not named.” According to the passage, which of the following reached the moo first?
阅读理解How will the tourists get to Guilin on the morning of the 6th day? They will get there by____.
阅读理解"if you are interested in religion,n you can visit ( ).
阅读理解when did Jack begin doing study medicine in college?when did Jack begin doing study medicine in college?
阅读理解Christopher NolansInterstellar fell to Earth at the domestic box office over the weekend, but its international ticket sales are rocketing through the stratosphere faster than commentators can rehash space-based idioms to describe its out-of-this-world success
阅读理解Passage 5
She was fast asleep
阅读理解Passage 3
The Internet is a worldwide network of thousands of computers and computer network
阅读理解Passage 3
No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstance
阅读理解TEXT В
From 2007 to 2010, American households lost $11 trillion in real estate, savings, and stocks
阅读理解Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is toexplore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited forexpressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid,phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers ofevil.You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen suchmisery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre ofinnocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in theworld today.After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depictinghappiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of massmedia, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, livedwith few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the mostpowerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in periland that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art tobe a bummer too.Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial,and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Ourmagazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since thesemessages have an agenda — to lure us to open our wallets — they make the very idea of happinessseem unreliable. “Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we foundout it could increase the risk of heart attacks.But what we forget — what our economy depends on is forgetting — is that happiness is more thanpleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss anddisappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us asreligion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and thathappiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clovecigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
阅读理解It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young
阅读理解Passage 1
President Roosevelt‟s administration suffered a devastating defeat when on January 6, 1936, the AgriculturalAdjustment Act was declared unconstitutional
阅读理解In the author’s opinion, the following may cause city people to be unhappy EXCEPT
阅读理解Through uninhibited spraying against one enemy we have destroyed the natural balances our survival requires