[单项选择]We put a lot of hard work into local initiatives, and that"s really starting to______now.
A. pay off
B. pay out
C. pay up
D. pay back

[单项选择]The hard work put in during his younger years made him become （） sound in his later years.
A. finance
B. finances
C. financial
D. financially

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After a day’ s hard work, we need some sleep. During the sleep, the fatigue(疲劳) of the body disappears and recuperation(恢复) begins. The tired mind gathers new energy, and the memory improves.
Some adults require little sleep; others need eight to ten hours in every twenty-four hours. Infants (婴儿) sleep sixteen to eighteen hours daily, the amount gradually diminishing as they grow older. Young students may need twelve hours ; university students may need ten. A worker with a physically demanding job may also need ten, whereas an executive working under great pressure may manage on six to eight. Many famous people have little sleep. Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison and Charles Darwin apparently averaged only four to six hours a night.
Whatever your individual need, you can be sure that by the age of thirty you will have slept for a total of more than twelve years. By that age you will also have developed a sleep routine: a favorite hour, a favorite bed, a fav
A. sleep is important for good mental and physical health
B. a light sleep is as restful as a deep sleep
C. memory is improved during sleep
D. sleep is relatively unimportant for human beings

[单项选择]We were （） after all the hard work.
A. wear out
B. weary out
C. worn out
D. outworn

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Scientists find that hardworking people live longer than average men and women. Career women (职业女性) are healthier than housewives. Evidence shows that the jobless are in poorer health than the job-holders. An investigation (调查) shows that whenever the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate increases by 2%. All these seem to support one point: work is helpful to health.
Why is work good for health It is because work keeps people busy, away from loneliness. Researches show that people feel unhappy and worried when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are busy. Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they’re happiest when they are working hard. Work serves as a bridge between man and reality. By work, people come into contact with each other. By collective (集体的) activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The los
A. People may get sick if they are out of job.
B. From work, people get nothing but a salary.
C. If one woks harder, he will have higher status in society.
D. To be happier and healthier, you should look for a better job.

[填空题]Hard work is respected as the cornerstone of Japan’s post-war economic miracle.
The value of self-sacrifice puts the benefit of the group above that of the individual.

[填空题]I tried hard to put across my idea to him but ___________ (我所有的努力均归于无效).

[填空题]Hard work has been an important part of the American belief from the nation’s beginning. The American idea that hard work was to be (36) distinguishes us from Europeans who admire their gentlemen of leisure.
Now, however, like many other (37) values, hard work is coming under attack. In academic journals, conferences and classrooms, the idea of hard work is considered to be another of those (38) that the dominant forces of our society impose on the rest of us. It (39) advances white-male interests.
In a recent survey, high school students in the United States and Japan were asked to (40) factors that contributed to success in the classroom. Of the Japanese, 72 percent listed hard work first while only 27 percent of Americans agreed.
Many factors contribute to the devaluing (降低……的价值) of hard work. Thinking that self-esteem is crucial, many parents and teachers (41) to point out the students’ failing,

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Most people have no idea of the hard work of collecting those fascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo. One of the questions that is always asked of me is (31) I became an animal collector in the first (32) . The answer is that I have always been interested in animals and zoos.

According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any (33) was not the conventional "mamma" or "daddy", (34) the word "zoo", which I would (35) over and over again with a shrill (36) until someone, in order to (37) me up, would take me to the zoo.
When I (38) a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great (39) of pets, ranging from owls to seahorses, and I spent all my spare time (40) the countryside in search of fresh specimens to (41) to my collection of pets. (42) on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student (43) , to ge
A. for
B. with
C. to
D. from