At Columbia University, where I taught economics for many years before coming to China, most of my students spent a great deal of time in volunteer work. They taught poor children in the local neighborhoods, they visited the elderly in hospitals and at home and helped them with their shopping, they worked to preserve historic sites and places of beauty, they cleaned up waste dumps, they prepared food for the hungry, they created and ran student newspapers, they organized concerts and artistic events, they acted as translators for migrant workers, they formed political pressure groups, they raised money to combat AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, and so on.
As part 0f that tradition I do volunteer work here in Beijing, just as I did in New York, but I find that my students at Tsinghua University and at other schools in Beijing are much less involved in volunteering then I had expected; In part, of course, this reflects the heavier workload in Chinese schools, which leaves
Well, I studied economics at university, and then I was lucky because I got a job very quick- ly as an accountant in a local department store, it wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but, you know it was a first job. I stayed there for four years altogether. After three years I was promoted to ac- counts manager, and I stayed in that job for a year, but then I really got bored, so I decided to leave and I applied for other jobs in this area.
I had no luck getting a second job at all, and 1 was very short of money, so in the end I had to get a job working as a waitress in a restaurant. Well, it wasn’t very successful because I’m quite clumsy. I kept dropping things, so after six months, they gave me a sack (解雇). And then, just by chance I met an old friend who I was at university with. And he was working in television. He got me a job as a television researcher on a program called "Business Today". After a few months they decided that they wanted young
A. careful
B. worried
C. unskillful
D. helpful
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