ADVANCED PURCHASE DISCOUNTS FOR AIRLINE TRAVEL | |
Days Prior to Departure | Percentage Discount |
0~6 days | 0% |
7~13 days | 10% |
14~29 days | 2
A. 6 days B. 7days C. 13 days D. 14 days E. (E) 29days [填空题]Periodically in history, there come periods of great transition in which work changes its meaning. There was a time, perhaps 10,000 years ago, when human beings stopped feeding themselves by hunting game and gathering plants, and increasingly turned to agriculture. In a way, that represented the invention of "work."
Then, in the latter decades of the 18th century, as the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, there was another transition in which the symbols of work were no longer the hoe and the plow; they were replaced by the mill and the assembly line. 66. ______ With the Industrial Revolution, machinery -powered first by steam, then by electricity and internal combustion engines -took over the hard physical tasks and relieved the strain on human and animal muscles. 67. ______ And yet, such jobs have been characteristic of the human condition in the first threequarters of the 20th century. They’ve made too little demand on the human mind and [单项选择]Why work (62) you have periodically asked yourself the same question, perhaps focused on (63) you have to work. Selfinterest in its broadest (64) including the interests of family and friends, is a basic (65) for work in all societies. But self-interest can (66) more than providing for subsistence or (67) wealth. For instance, among the Maori, a Polynesian people of the South Pacific, a desire for approval, a sense of duty, a wish to (68) to custom and tradition, a feeling of emulation(竞争), and a pleasure in craftsmanship are (69) reasons for working. Even within the United States, we cannot understand work as simply a response to (70) necessity. Studies show that ’the vast (71) of Americans would continue to work even if they inherited enough money to live comfortably.
When people work, they gain a (72) place in society. The fact that they receive pay for A. evaluate B. assess C. estimate D. value 我来回答: 提交
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