You hear a great many complaints today about the excessive security consciousness of our young people. My complaint is the (1)__

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问题     You hear a great many complaints today about the excessive security consciousness of our young people. My complaint is the (1)_____:in the large organizations especially, there are not enough job opportunities for those young people who need challenge and risk. Jobs in which there is greater emphasis on (2)_____ performance of well-organized duties (3)_____ on imagination especially for the beginner—are to be found, for instance, in the inside jobs (4)_____ banking or insurance, (5)_____ normally offer great job security but not rapid promotion or large pay. The same is (6)_____ most government work, of the railroad industry, particularly in the clerical and engineering branches, and (7)_____ most public (8)_____. The book keeping and accounting areas, especially in the larger companies, are generally of this type, too (9)_____ a successful comptroller is an accountant (10)_____ great management and business imagination.
    At the other extreme are (11)_____ areas as buying, selling, and advertising, in which the (12)_____ is on adaptability, on imagination, and on a desire to do new and different things. In those areas, (13)_____, there is little security, either personal or economic. The rewards, (14)_____, are high and come more rapidly. Major premium on imagination—though of a different kind and coupled (15)_____ dogged persistence on details (16)_____ in most research and engineering work. Jobs in production, as supervisor or executive, also demand much adaptability and imagination. (17)_____ to popular belief, a very small business requires, above all, close attention to daily routine. Running a neighborhood drugstore or a small grocery, or being a toy jobber, is largely attention to details. But in very small business there is also (18)_____ for quite a few people of the other type of personality—the innovator or imaginer. If successful, a man of this type soon ceases to be in a very small business. (19)_____ the real innovator (20)_____ is, still, no more promising opportunity in this country than that of building a large out of a very small business.


选项 A、Contrary
B、Contrast
C、Compared
D、Opposition

答案A

解析 jobber批发商。contrary to…与…相反。popular belief流行的看法。其他三项的常用搭配有:the opposition of:…的反抗  compare…with:把…与…比较;contrast with:与…对比起来;compare to比拟,比作,好比。contrast to:与…不同。
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