首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
admin
2017-08-15
80
问题
When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family."
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life" ,and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12 hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a well-established trend. Downshifting—also known in America as "voluntary simplicity"—has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anticonsumerism. There are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-’90s equivalent of dropping out.
While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline—after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ’80s—and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down-shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the ’80s, downshifting in the mid-’90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.
Which of the following is true according to Para. 1?
选项
A、Full-time employment is a new international trend.
B、The writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.
C、A lateral move means stepping out of full-time employment.
D、The writer was only too eager to spend more time with her family.
答案
B
解析
本题可参照文章的第1段。从中可知,当我决定辞去全职工作时,我从未想到自己可能成为国际新潮流的一分子;一次平级调动伤害了我的自尊,也妨碍了我的业务上的进步,这件事促使我放弃了我那前途令人欣羡的职业;但是,我以一种失宠的政府大臣的口气宣称,“我想多陪陪家人”,以此来掩饰我辞职的真正原因。据此可知,作者是因为形势所迫而辞职的。B项与文章意思相符,因此B项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/iZFO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
HowtoDoFewer,BetterAnimalExperimentsForanationofpetlovers,Britainconductsasurprisingnumberofexperimentso
Thecurrentfederalfundsinterestrateofonly1.75percenthasclearlybecomeunsustainableinviewoftheeconomy’sresilien
Evenbeforeheis80,theagingpersonmayundergoanotheridentitycrisislikethatofadolescence.Perhapstherehadalsobeen
Evenbeforeheis80,theagingpersonmayundergoanotheridentitycrisislikethatofadolescence.Perhapstherehadalsobeen
____aresearchstudent,Iwouldatleastmastertwoforeignlanguages.
Thekidsarehangingout.Theyarenotoldenoughforjobs.Noraretheyrichenoughforcamp.Theyareschoolchildrenwithout
Inrecentyears,manyAmericansofbothsexesandvariousageshavebecomeinterestedinimprovingtheirbodies.Theyhavebecom
Opinionpollsarenowbeginningtoshowthat,whoeveristoblameandwhateverhappensfromnowno,highunemploymentisprobabl
Theageatwhichyoungchildrenbegintomakemoraldiscriminationsaboutharmfulactionscommittedagainstthemselvesorothers
随机试题
小敏今年8岁,从她6岁起,小敏妈妈就开始带她上各种特长班,开发她的智商和培养她的兴趣爱好。但是,小敏妈妈发现小敏最近不愿意去上特长班,常在上课前说自己不舒服,要么肚子疼,要么头疼,就算去上课也会跟老师说自己难受要提前回家。小敏变得孤僻起来,回家不愿意跟妈妈
用麻花钻扩孔时,由于横刃不参加工作,轴向切削力减小,因此,可加大进给量。()
下述哪项不宜增加留针时间
症见脘腹痞闷而胀,进食尤甚,拒按,嗳腐吞酸,恶食呕吐,矢气频作,味臭如败卵,舌苔厚腻,脉滑,辨证为
产褥期的健康指导中正确的是()
一批数据分别为“60~70”、“70~80”、“80~90”、“90~100”四组,按统计分组的习惯规定,90这一数值应归在()这一组中。
企业出现严重财务困难时,即表明企业不能持续经营。()
如果要对德国邮政的成绩追根溯源,则可以归因于1995年开始的市场化探索。在此之前,德国邮政以其人浮于事、效率低下的服务著称。其后,改成了国有控股公司,并于2000年上市,以改善公司治理结构。一方面,在五六年间,德国邮政的专营范围一直在缩减,因而面对着越来
设方程ez=y+χz+χ2+y2确定隐函数z=z(χ,y),求dz及.
[A]OnereasonfortheunusuallyhighratiooffemaleartistsinPakistanhastodowiththefactthattheartindustryhasnot
最新回复
(
0
)