[单项选择]A. By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B. By working long hours every day.
C. By putting in more hours each week.
D. By taking shorter vacations each year.

[填空题]What does Rowe think the people doing clean jobs lack in their lives

[填空题]The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, ______ (而是喜欢他应做的).

[单项选择]When people become good at doing the things they like they find themselves.
Many young people are good at doing things they do not like; many other young people would like to do something at which they are not good. Also many do not think they are good at anything, and do not know what they would like to do. None of them are happy.
It is impossible to decide whether one likes something until one has tried it. Trying something new is important.
Give each idea a fair chance. If you have decided to try out something new, also decide how long you will stick to it. Then you can make a fair decision.
The best thing to judge is not the final goal, but the work which takes you to reach that goal. Almost everybody would like to be highly skilled in doing something, but becoming highly skilled at anything calls for a great deal of time and effort. Finding oneself means not only discovering what one is good at and what one likes; it also means discovering what one is not good
A. they are good at doing things they are not fond of
B. they would like to do something they are not good at
C. they think they are good at nothing and do not know what they can do
D. all of the above

[简答题]Doing part-time jobs can ____________(使我们视野开阔，获得新知识).

[单项选择]How many jobs were lost in 2001 according to the labor groups’ complaints
A. 250, 000 jobs.
B. 25, 000 jobs.
C. 2, 500, 000 jobs.
D. 2, 500 jobs.

[填空题]and doing so harms their top lines, their bottom lines, and their prospects for long-term

[填空题]Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is on a health-related leave from the tech powerhouse, is considering making an appearance at a San Francisco event today to roll out the iPad 2, according to a published report.
If he does attend the event, Jobs is expected to make a brief appearance on stage along with other top Apple execs to tout the latest version of the widely popular tablet, according to The Wall Street Fournal’s All Things Digital Web Site.
However, some industry sources feel an appearance by Jobs to promote the new device could result in "rubbernecking" because of his reported weight loss and could serve to distract the media from the rollout of the iPad 2, which is sleeker than its predecessor and contains front- and rear-facing cameras, a larger speaker, a faster processor and other upgrades.
Today’s iPad 2 introduction is designed to steal the thunder of Motorola’s Android-based Xoom tablet and other Android-based tablets in the pipeline that are trying to brea

[单项选择]
According to a recent survey, employees in many companies today work longer hours than employees did in 1979. They also take shorter vacations. It seems that Americans are working harder today than ever before. Or are they A management consultant, Bill Meyer, decided to find out. For three days, he observed an investment banker hard at work. Meyer wrote down everything the banker did during his long workday, the banker worked 80 hours a week. At the end of the three-day period, Meyer reviewed the banker’s activities with him. What did they find out They discovered that the man spent 80 percent of his time doing busy work. For example, he attended unnecessary meetings, made unnecessary telephone calls, and spent time packing and unpacking his two big briefcases.
Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends at work, the more she or he accomplishes. However, the connection betw
A. To find out if the Americans are hardly working nowadays.
B. To find out if the Americans are working harder today than ever before.
C. To find out what the banker does within three days.
D. To find out if the banker was pretending to do busy work.