Owning a smart phone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are… but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.
The study by technology retailer Pixmania reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. More than 90 percent of office workers have an email-enabled phone, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 7 am, with more than a third checking their first email in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11 pm and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smart phones invaluable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smart phones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity.”
1.What can we conclude from the text?
A. All that glitters is not gold.
B. Every coin has two sides.
C. It never rains but pours.
D. It’s no good crying over spilt milk.
2.The underlined word “accessing” in the third paragraph can be replaced by .
A. calling B. reaching
C. getting D. using
3.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The average UK working day is between nine and twelve hours.
B. Nine-tenths spend over three hours checking work emails.
C. One fourth check their first mails between 11 pm and midnight.
D. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 8 am.
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Workaholics like smart phones.
B. Smart phones bring about extra work.
C. Smart phones make our live easier.
D. Employers don’t like smart phones.
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Recently an online survey on traveling has been conducted. In the survey, people are asked about how often and why they travel, and the results are as follows.
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Dear Gary,
I’m really sorry about my using the mobile phone in your lecture the last week. Please receive my apology for being such rude a student. But I didn’t use the mobile phone for any reason. I was trying to find a part-time job last week and that day, I got a job offer and they need my further informations immediately. However, I had no other choice but try sending them a text message in class. I promise it will ever happen again. But I do need my phone back to get in touch with others. Will you be kindly enough to give it back to me? Thank you.
Opportunities don’t come often. They come every once in a while. Very often, they come quietly and go by without 1.(notice). Therefore, it is advisable 2. you should value and treat them with care. When an opportunity comes, it brings a promise but never realizes it3. its own. If you want to achieve something 4. intend to fulfill one of your ambitions, you must work hard, make efforts and get prepared. 5. , you will take no advantage of opportunities when they come to visit you. The difference between a man who succeeds and 6.
who does not lies only in the way each treats opportunities. The successful person always makes adequate preparations to meet opportunities as they duly arrive. The 7. (success) person, on8. other hand, works little and just waits to see them pass by. 1n my opinion, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone in our society, but only those who are prepared adequately and qualified 9. (high) can make use of them to achieve 10. purposes.
The secret of success is what you say not what you think. Several years ago, I started representing a new service in the . I started out like a wildfire and within a few days I had reached stardom(明星的地位) within the company. About a year into it. I started to work with a young lady who always said the most and defeating things I’d ever heard in my life. , I found myself repeating the very same defeatism(失败情绪), which my sales dropping and my shining stardom fading away, and I couldn’t understand .
At first, I myself to say negative things about , and then after some ,
the tables turned and I began to those things about myself. Before long, I had 51
myself into being a failure. Did it happen ? No, it snuck(偷偷跑来) its way into my life; little by little. I’m sure you’re what I did to get out of that hole that I dug for myself. I started to talk myself back into being ; I printed lists of things to say about myself, most of which was the exact of what I felt about myself at the time.
In order to achieve anything in life, you have to believe that you can achieve it; in order to believe that you can achieve you have to think it’s possible; in order to think it’s possible you have to tell yourself it is. Yes, it will take time for you to get to a place where you finally believe you can accomplish what you set out to achieve, but the first person you have to is yourself. I dare you to write positive things down about yourself and start saying them to yourself every morning, at lunch and just before you go to bed for the next 30 days and see for yourself the that it can make. You have nothing to except the negative and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
1.A. careerB. school C. marketplaceD. hospital
2.A. justB. evenC. aloneD. yet
3.A. positiveB. activeC. reliableD. negative
4.A. SimplyB. EventuallyC. ActuallyD. Hopefully
5.A. resulted from B. resulted inC. preventedD. protected
6.A. why B. howC. whichD. when
7.A. advisedB. allowedC. forbadeD. forced
8.A. anyoneB. everyoneC. someoneD. others
9.A. dislikeB. prideC. disappointmentsD. pleasure
10.A. thinkB. speakC. sayD. find
11.A. toldB. lookedC. 1eftD. talked
12.A. unfortunatelyB. overnightC. carefullyD. slowly
13.A. wonderingB. noticingC. rememberingD. reflecting
14.A. successfulB. honestC. hardworkingD. special
15.A. passive B. rudeC. positiveD. silly
16.A. thoughtB. awareC. sameD. opposite
17.A. onlyB. firstC. veryD. 1ast
18.A. catchB. arrange[来源:学科网C. remindD. convince
19.A. advanceB. stepC. differenceD. change
20.A. lose B. prepareC. takeD. keep
What is life's greatest gift? 1. Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transform us from dumb animals into artist. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo. Choice becomes nothing other than the tool we use to sculpt(雕刻) our life. The tool doesn’t come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 2. The reward is happiness.
Life is not still. It is a flow. 3. We constantly need to monitor where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what corrective measures can I take? What action will I take now to readjust(再调整) myself to my goals? Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It is the creative power of life.
4. And your life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example. you decide which stores to shop at and which gas station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our life are far mote important than deciding where to shop. The more we appreciate the difference between minor and major decisions, the greater the probability that we will experience happiness and fulfillment.
All chess lovers realize that it isn’t necessary to win to enjoy the game. The pleasure is in the playing. Life is like a chess game. 5.
A.It is free will or choice.
B.You have to make choices every day.
C.Make the best moves you can under the circumstances.
D.But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.
E. Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.
F. Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are, the harder they get.
G. Choose to carry out responsibilities not because you have to, but because you want to.