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The GREATEST Journey
I had lunch last week with a high-ranking business woman for a fortune 500 company. I asked her what tips she would give to someone early in their career. Without hesitation she jumped right into four keys to her professional climb:
Know your business. Never get satisfaction with your industry or your position. In most cases, the knowledge you hold now is not good enough to stand the test of time. Thus, you must keep working to stay on top of what’s new and what’s coming down the pipeline. This is what really counts, especially early in a professional career, as many entry level associates are content to be gainfully employed.
Pick careers with care. Again, early in your career it is easy to run after the job that offers the most money. In the case of a life-long career money cannot answer all things. If you are going to be an entrepreneur then you’ll probably start with a budget of zero. Yet, if you have the discipline, working for yourself could be the best choice you’ve ever made.
If you are going to work for a company you have to do your homework. If you find a company that consists with your values and produces a product that you 100% believe in, then you’ll have an easy time giving that organization your all.
Be personable. If everyone hates to be around you at the office, it’s time to check your attitude. We’ve all heard at least one anecdote about a great thinker with great skills who drove coworkers crazy. Someway, somehow many of the brightest and best lack the “people skills” to advance beyond an entry-level position.
In short, you must have the interpersonal insight to interact with internal and external contacts. If not, you may find that you are unimportant once someone with soft-skills joins the organization. Why? People have to buy you before they ever buy the product you’re selling.
Be willing to move. This is where I got puzzled. She shared how she lived in seven states still working for the same organization.
Much is made of moving in today’s attempts to climb the corporate ladder. As more and more companies extend to have a global reach, it is easy to understand why new opportunities birth in various locations.
Whatever the path, outline in your heart what destination you hope to reach and this will be a key indicator as to which journey will be greatest for you.
Title: The Greatest Journey
Passage Outlines | Supporting Details |
Information about a business woman | ●She held a high 1. in a fortune 500 company. |
3. on professional climb | Know your business |
Pick careers 5. | |
Be personable | |
Be willing to move | |
Conclusion | ●With your dreaming destination 10. in mind, you will be navigated through the greatest journey. |
Shelly hugged her husband."Be careful, Billy."
"Come on, Shell!" Bill rolled his eyes. "You worry too much, Honey. Me and the boys will be OK. It's just a three — day trip. We'll catch enough halibut to be able to fix up the baby's room the way you want it." '
"Billy, I love you and worry every time you go to sea, especially in winter."
"Shell, I promise I'll be careful. I may be the youngest captain in this port, but I'm the most careful. I learned at the helm of Daddy's boat, which I was practically raised on."
They hugged again. Bill planted a tender kiss on her cheek, rested his open palm on her slightly swollen stomach, "Besides, I need to be here. Little Billy will need his daddy." Shelly slapped him on the shoulder. "It's Billy Jean and you know it.”
Bill laughed, "Not on my watch, Girl. I gave you a boy to take over as captain."
Their laughter broke the tension. "I have to go, Shell. See you in a few days?" He turned to leave and then turned back, reached into the pocket of his heavy coat and pulled out an envelope."I almost forgot. Here's my letter?"
Shelly took the crisp envelope and slipped into the pocket of her dress. "Thanks，Billy.” It had been their custom since they started dating. Billy gave her a note before he went to sea. She wasn't allowed to open it until the next day. He usually wrote of love or sometimes something silly - both made her smile. She wrote a reply and left it on the kitchen table for him. Reading her reply was the first thing he did when he came home.
She watched as her husband walked the'length of the pier to where the forty-five foot “Shelly Girl” and his crew waited. He gave a final wave and climbed aboard.
Shelly stood by their pickup truck and watched until the boat rounded the point and disappeared from view. "I love you, Billy.” she whispered. "Be safe." ①
That evening, five hundred miles to the south, a small winter depression moved north along the Atlantic coast of the USA. Experts found an unexpected change in the jet stream, which would make the small depression become a raging winter storm. ②
Shelly woke in the morning and listened to the weather report on the battered radio sitting on kitchen table. The phone rang."Hello."
“Shelly?"
"Hi, Gail!" She recognized the voice of her friend, who was the wife of one of Billy's crew. “Have you heard the weather?"
"Hang on a second. I just turned the radio on." Shelly's face paled as she heard the weather person say a major winter depression had moved into the area. "Oh crap!"
"That's what [ said too.”
"They'll be OK, Gail. They're experienced fishermen." Shelly said to Gail It was a attempt to convince herself that her man would be safe. ③
Off the south shore of Nova Scotia, Bill struggled to control the Shelly Girl in the growing waves. Wind and water attacked Bill and his crew from all directions. The forty- and fifty-foot walls of water were too much of a challenge for the young captain.
The force of the water flipped the boat over, tore the wheelhouse off and tossed Bill and his crew into the icy Atlantic.
The water, only a few degrees above the freezing point, soon overcame Bill's will to live. “Shelly!
He took a last painful breath of salt water and slipped below the surface. ④
The crisp envelope bent beneath her fingers as she laid it on her lap and read. "Shelly, you are my life,, my love and soon-to-be mother of our son一girl if that is what you really want. I'll always come home."
Shelly reached for the pen in her dress pocket. Tears dripped from her face and stained the paper she wrote on, “________."
Her note sits on their kitchen table still — never read.
1.Why was Shelly worried too much when Billy go to sea this time?
A.Because she and their baby Billy Jean needed Billy's protection and care.
B.Because she knew from the radio that a major winter depression would come.
C.Because she had a feeling that Billy would never return home.
D.Because she cared about Billy's safety in the sea, especially in winter.
2.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Billy could read Shelly's reply letter only when he returned home from the sea.
B.Billy and Shelly wrote letters to each other since they got married.
C.Shelly read Billy's letter eagerly each time she got his letter.
D.They exchanged their letters with each other every time Billy went out.
3.Which word can be filled in the blank in the passage?
A.weak B.strong C.hard D.desperate
4.Where can the sentences "Shell sat in her favorite spot on the porch of their weathered beach house, the salty air sticking to her heavy winter clothes. The oncoming storm blew sand across her winter boots.," be put in?
A.① B.② C.③ D.④
5.Which of the following may be Shelly's reply to Billy's letter?
A.Billy, you were so brave, I always knew.
B.Billy, I always knew the ocean was your home.
C.Billy, I always knew, you would come back.
D.Billy, I love you, I would always wait for you.
6.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A.An unlucky Billy B.A storm in life
C.A broken Shelly D.Never read
The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing — Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all. What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its users’ friendships and social lives.
Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be. What political journalist, what party whip, would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Theresa May’s enemies are currently plotting? It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops of owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.
Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. But it is clumsy. For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power. But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too. Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don’t pay for them. The users of their services are not their customers. That would be the people who buy advertising from them — and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.
The product they’re selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants. Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield. Ants keep enemy insects away from where their aphids (蚜虫) feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes. It doesn't feel like a human or democratic relationship, even if both sides benefit.
1.According to Paragraph1, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for its________.
A.digital products B.user information
C.physical assets D.quality service
2.Linking phone numbers to Facebook identities may________.
A.worsen political disputes B.mess up customer records
C.pose a risk to Facebook users D.mislead the European commission
3.Competition law as presently interpreted can hardly protect Facebook users because________.
A.they are no defined as customers B.they are not financially reliable
C.these services are generally digital D.the services are paid for by advertisers
4.The ants analogy is used to illustrate_________.
A.a win-win business model between digital giants
B.a typical competition pattern among digital giants
C.the benefits provided for digital giants' customers
D.the relationship between digital giants and their users
Returns & Refund Guarantee
The “Returns & Refund Guarantee” is a promise provided by sellers for every item they sell on DHgate.com. When you receive an item that was bought and paid for on our site, and you find it is not as described or is of low quality, you can contact the seller to resolve these problems. DHgate will offer additional assistance if the seller is not cooperative.
Scope
The following points should not be included in the “Returns & Refund Guarantee”:
▲The seller didn’t make any promise.
▲The seller can provide evidence to prove the items are as described.
▲You didn’t contact the seller within the promised time.
▲You have released the payment to the seller before asking DHgate for help.
Sellers are able to set up the following promise:
Returning items for any reason
Buyers can return items for a refund within a specific day which has been set up by sellers, such as 3 days, and 7 days from the day when the items are received. The items’ receive date is the date that is indicated on the shipping carrier’s official website. Buyers should prepay any return shipping cost, which will be given back to the buyers after the seller receives the items as long as the items are returned in the same exact condition as when they were delivered.
Returns or Refunds accepted if the product has quality issues
Buyers can return the items for a refund when they are not as described or possess quality issues by communicating directly with the seller. The seller is responsible for the return shipping cost.
Buyers can get a refund and keep the items when the items are not as described or possess quality issues by negotiating directly with sellers.
1.Who can get additional assistance from DHgate in the guarantee?
A.The buyers in physical stores. B.The buyers on DHgate.com.
C.The sellers on DHgate.com. D.Both the buyers and the sellers.
2.Which situation is within the scope of the guarantee?
A.The seller didn’t make any promise.
B.The buyer has paid the seller in advance.
C.The buyer asked for help within the promised time.
D.The seller proves that there is nothing wrong with the item.
3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.All the sellers didn’t make promises.
B.DHgate sometimes will pay the buyers.
C.Sellers should prepay return shipping cost.
D.The buyer can’t keep the items after getting a refund.
Embassy Suites by Hilton Santa Ana Orange County Airport
Neighborhood: John Wayne Airport (SNA), Orange County
1325 East Dyer Road, Santa Ana, CA
OVERALL GUEST SCORE
Very Good
Based on 163 Guest Ratings
Hotel Description
Being close to airport and freeway access makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for our guests in the area. The 300-room Embassy Suites offers homey comforts for those on business and vacation alike—suites with separate living and sleeping areas, refrigerators, microwaves, coffeemakers, Wi-Fi access and two TVs. Wake up to a free cooked-to-order breakfast and enjoy the indoor pool and fitness center. A two-hour evening reception offers drinks and appetizers and the on-site restaurant serves American favorites. The property also has a business center with copy and fax services. Parking is available for an additional fee. Less than two miles from I-405, the Embassy Suites is within a half-mile of various restaurants and just three miles from John Wayne Airport. Our guests say the Embassy Suites’ location, “brilliant” breakfast and “friendly” staff make it one of their favorite Santa Ana properties.
Guest Ratings |
Good Feb 8, 2017 By: Harold Pros: Loved the breakfast and the friendly, helpful staff. Spacious accommodations made this a very good value. |
Cons: Didn’t love the heating/AC system; room was too cold for comfort. Also was not aware of the parking fee until we checked in. The parking fee was $17 a night. |
Good Jan 24, 2017 By: Micaela Pros: Breakfast was amazing with a variety of choices and the staff were helpful. Cons: The room had a very strange old smell when we first got there. I had to open the door to air it out. |
Very Good Jan 5, 2017 By: Bruce Pros: The location was very good for us and the included breakfast was a plus. Cons: The room was not cleaned properly when we got there. The heating system was not working for the hotel as well |
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1.________ makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for its guests in the area.
A.The business center B.The friendly staff
C.The convenient location D.Wi-Fi access
2.This advertisement is made more believable by ________.
A.providing the exact address B.using guests’ comments
C.analyzing its pros and cons D.interviewing the guests
In grade school during the 1970s, I loved reading the Peanuts paperback collection. Then in 1975, I started _______ my own comics in class. My classmates became my readers. My teacher would _________ me not to draw in class while throwing my _______ into the waste basket.
I learned the rejection was my hobby, so I cartooned anyway — very _______ in order not to get caught by the teacher. The comics I created had readers _________ my middle school, junior high, senior high school, and college years.
_______ college, my job as a manager left me feeling ___________ inside. This wasn’t my life, I thought. I was born to cartoon. I was ___________ of feeling emptiness. I simply quit my ___________. I spent the next year drawing or creating my comics at local coffee houses. Later, I went on a journey to the Cartoon art Museum in San Francisco to ____________ myself further. A series of parking tickets made that trip ____________ — forcing me to hang out in Santa Rosa instead.
When I ____________ Santa Rosa, I went into a place called The Warm Puppy Café ________ I heard that ________ cartoonist Charles Schulz was seated at a table having breakfast. I eventually went over and introduced myself. He took me to his ____________. The next half hour was like a dream. The famous cartoonist even ____________ me to redesign my cartoon characters.
When I was ____________ his work room, Schulz told me “Never, never give up.” Now I am celebrating 41 years of cartooning as a cartoonist. My website BunsComic.com has ______________ around the world. I __________ how it all started from my simple drawings in class. I just put together a cartoon slideshow (幻灯片) called “My Life Should be Better!” I’m hoping to ____________ others to realize their dreams with this message.
1.A.showing B.selling C.enjoying D.drawing
2.A.warn B.force C.persuade D.ask
3.A.book B.work C.homework D.notebook
4.A.simply B.naturally C.politely D.quickly
5.A.along B.throughout C.among D.besides
6.A.Until B.Since C.After D.Before
7.A.useless B.free C.empty D.strange
8.A.tired B.afraid C.full D.sure
9.A.smoking B.cartoon C.game D.position
10.A.introduce B.improve C.educate D.remind
11.A.short B.unique C.boring D.exciting
12.A.found out B.knew of C.heard about D.arrived in
13.A.if B.though C.because D.while
14.A.well-informed B.lucky C.well-known D.crazy
15.A.class B.studio C.school D.home
16.A.helped B.hired C.allowed D.wanted
17.A.designing B.noticing C.visiting D.leaving
18.A.authors B.readers C.workers D.artists
19.A.doubt B.wonder C.recall D.imagine
20.A.inspire B.teach C.get D.enable
