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Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (20 minutes)

Seven Steps to a More Fulfilling Job

Many people today find themselves in unfulfilling work situations. In fact, one in four workers is dissatisfied

with the

ir current job, according to the recent “Plans for 2004” survey. Their career path may be financially

rewarding, but it doesn’t meet their emotional, social or creative needs. They’re stuck, unhappy, and have

no

idea what to do about it, except move to another job.

Mary Lyn Miller, veteran career consultant and founder of the Life and Career Clinic, says that when most

people are unhappy about their work, their first thought is to get a different job. Instead, Miller suggests looking

at the possibility of a different life. Through her book, 8 Myths of Making a Living, as well as workshops,

seminars and personal coaching and consulting, she has helped thousands of dissatisfied workers reassess life

and work.

Like the way of Zen, which includes understanding of oneself as one really is, Miller encourages job seekers

and those dissatisfied with work or life to examine their beliefs about work and recognize that “in many cases

your beliefs are what brought you to w

here you are today.” You may have been raised to

think that women were

best at nurturing and caring and, therefore, should be teachers and nurses. So that’s what you did. Or, perhaps

you were brought up to believe that you should do what your father did, so you have taken over the family

business, or be

come a dentist “just like dad.” If this sounds familiar, it’s probably time to look at the new

possibilities for your future.

Miller developed a 7-step process to help potential job seekers assess their current situation and beliefs, identify

their real passion, and start on a journey that allows them to pursue their passion through work.

Step 1: Willingness to do something different.

Breaking the cycle of doing what you have always done is one of the most difficult tasks for job seekers. Many

find it diffi

cult to steer away from a career path or make a change, even if it doesn’t feel right. Miller urges job

seekers to open their minds to other possibilities beyond what they are currently doing.

Step 2: Commitment to being who you are, not who or what someone wants you to be.

Look at the gifts and talents you have and make a commitment to pursue those things that you love most. If

you love the social aspects of your job, but are stuck inside an office or “chained to your desk” most of the time,

vow to follow your instinct and investigate alternative careers and work that allow you more time to interact

with others. Dawn worked as a manager for a large retail clothing store for several years. Though she had

advanced within the company, she felt frustrated and longed to be involved with nature and the outdoors. She

decided to go to school nights and weekends to pursue her true passion by earning her master’s degree in

forestry. She now works in the biotech forestry division of a major paper company.

Step 3: Self-definition

Miller suggests that once job seekers know who they are, they need to know how to sell themselves. “In the job

market, you are a product. And just like a product, you most know the features and benefits that you have to

offer a potential client

, or employer.” Examine the skills and knowledge that you have identify how they can

apply to your desired occupation. Your qualities will exhibit to employers why they should hire you over other

candidates.

Step 4: Attain a level of self-honoring.

Self- honoring or self-love may seem like an odd step for job hunters, but being able to accept yourself, without

judgment, helps eliminate insecurities and will make you more self-assured. By accepting who you are

–

all

your emotions, hopes and dreams, your personality, and your unique way of being

–

you’ll project more

confidence when networking and talking with potential employers. The power of self- honoring can help to

break all the falsehoods you were programmed to believe

–

those that made you feel that you were not good

enough, or strong enough, or intelligent enough to do what you truly desire.

Step 5: Vision.

Miller suggests that job seekers develop a vision that embraces the answer to “What do I really want to do?”

one should create a solid statement in a dozen or so sentences that describe in detail how they see their life

related to work. For instance, the secretary who longs to be an actress describes a life that allows her to express

her love of Shakespeare on stage. A real estate agent, attracted to his current job because her loves fixing up old

homes, describes buying properties that need a little tender loving care to make them more saleable.

Step 6: Appropriate risk.

Some philosophers believe that the way to enlightenment comes through facing obstacles and difficulties. Once

people discover their passion, many are too scared to do anything about it. Instead, they do nothing. With this

step, job seekers should assess what they are willing to give up, or risk, in pursuit of their dream. For one

working mom, that meant taking night classes to learn new computer-aided design skills, while still earning a

salary and keeping her day job. For someone else, it may mean quitting his or her job, taking out loan and going

back to school full time. You’ll move on

e step closer to your ideal work life if you identify how much risk you

are willing to take and the sacrifices you are willing to make.

Step 7: Action.

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Some teachers of philosophy describe action in this way,

“If one wants to get to the top of a mountain,

just

sitting at the foot thinking about it will not bring one there. It is by making the effort of climbing up the

mountain, step by step, that eventually the summit is reached.” All too often, it is the lack

of action that

ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals. Creating a plan and taking it one step at a time can lead

to new and different job opportunities. Job-hunting tasks gain added meaning as you sense their importance in

your quest for a more meaningful work life. The plan can include researching industries and occupations,

talking to people who are in your desired area of work, taking classes, or accepting volunteer work in your

targeted field.

Each of these steps will lead you on a journey to a happier and more rewarding work life. After all, it is the

journey, not the destination, that is most important.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡

1

上作答。

1.

According to the recent “Plans for 2004” survey, most people are unhappy with their current jobs.

2.

Mary Lyn

Miller’s job is to advise people on their life a

nd career.

3.

Mary Lyn Miller herself was once quite dissatisfied with her own work.

4.

Many people find it difficult to make up their minds whether to change their career path.

5.

According to Mary Lyn Miller, people considering changing their careers should commit themselves to the

pursuit of ________.

6.

In the job market, job seekers need to know how to sell themselves like ________.

7.

During an interview with potential employers, self-honoring or self-love may help a job seeker to show

________.

8.

Ma

ry Lyn Miller suggests that a job seeker develop a vision that answers the question “________”

9.

Many people are too scared to pursue their dreams because they are unwilling to ________.

10.

What ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals is ________.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

Section A

Google is a world- famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a

Silicon Valley garage in 2098, and

inflated (

膨胀

) with the Internet bubble. Even when everything around it

collapsed the company kept on inflating. Google’s search engine is so widespread across the world that search

became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast

technology.

Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of fortunate

events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 2096, initiated the academic project that eventually

became Google’s

search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on. They

were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without

any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.

Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just

look for word matches, it also tallied (

统计

) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to

one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation

Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so

it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient (

有先见之明的

) professors and venture capitalists, and

moved off campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they

tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their

own.

The next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It

had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The solution turned out to be advertising, and it’s not an

exaggeration to say that Goo

gle is now essentially an advertising company, given that that’s the source of nearly

all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $$100 billion.

47.

Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successful?

48.

Google’s search engine originated from ________ started

by L. Page.

49.

How did Google’s search engine spread all over the world?

50.

Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would ________.

51.

The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from ________.

Section B

Passage One

You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel good. Why

doesn’t ever

-greater wealth promote ever- greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance

in 2058 of The Affluent (

富裕的

) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.

The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition.

For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was

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