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Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see h
Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see h
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2008-12-18
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Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.
Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.
I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon (勤杂工) by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.
Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked -- cordially.
I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.
My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.
It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.
I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.
选项
A、one’s position is used as a gauge to measure one’s intelligence
B、talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job
C、one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
D、professionals tend to look down upon manual workers
答案
C
解析
本题问“什么使得作者感到失望”。短文首段的第二句为“Recently,however,I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.”,即令作者失望的是,职业决定了人们看待其的方式,故C项“某人的职业影响着人们对待他的方式”正确。A项“地位是评价一个人聪明才智的标尺”。短文第一段提到“... profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am.”,意思为职业是人们用来鉴定一个人智商和才能的标尺,这一点作者早已明白,并不是作者感到失望的原因。B项“像作者这样有才华的人找不到受人尊敬的工作”、D项“职业人士通常看不起体力善动者”文中均未提及。
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