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
One of the most disturbing statistics I’ve read for a long time was published this week. The Work Foundation claims that job sat
One of the most disturbing statistics I’ve read for a long time was published this week. The Work Foundation claims that job sat
admin
2010-01-10
56
问题
One of the most disturbing statistics I’ve read for a long time was published this week. The Work Foundation claims that job satisfaction in this country has fallen alarmingly. Women’s satisfaction level has fallen from 51 percent in 1992 to 29 percent today; men’s has fallen from 35 percent to 20. The reason — the long-hours culture and job insecurity.
For my father’s generation, work was something that had to be endured so that real life could be maintained. But my generation has been gulled into thinking that work is real life, Most work is not satisfying. Most work stinks. Most work, however well paid, is meaningless and dull. But somehow we’ve been convinced that work provides self-fulfillment.
Before Mrs Thatcher, we had a famous British attitude to work — the less we did the better. Thatcher introduced the idea that, in a world where identity was so fragile, you could become real through work, through long hours and assiduous consumption, in the small amount of time you had been left after clocking off. Now Blair carries on the crusade, I’ve got one of the best jobs in the world — sitting in an office by myself all day trying to make up something that someone somewhere will be interested in. But I’d rather be stretched out in front of the TV, or in bed, or playing tennis, or doing just about anything else.
Much of feminist thought has been about getting what men have traditionally had without examining the underlying assumption of whether it was worth having. Feminism never ended up with a life built around creative leisure, instead, women of talent and drive threw themselves into the labour pool, believing that work and its attendant income and power would affect the change of life and consciousness that would liberate them.
Can anything be done? Only if we’re willing to change the way we’ve been tricked into thinking. Most people now measure their lives primarily in units of currency — money saved and spent. I have a friend who’ll travel halfway across London for a shoe sale, without factoring in how much of her precious time has been spent travelling. The most important truth I know is that all we ever own is the time we were given on this earth. We need to seize it back. Now the future has arrived, and we have the means to do it — we just don’t have the imagination.
Before the British were persuaded to realize themselves through hard work,______.
选项
A、they had little time left to themselves
B、they had struggled hard for equal treatment
C、they had enjoyed themselves more
D、they had a strong desire to be set free from work
答案
C
解析
这是道细节题。从文中这句“Before Mrs. Thatcher, we had a famous British attitude to work—the less we did the better.”(在撒切尔夫人之前,英国人采取的工作态度是——工作得越少越好)从这句话可以看出选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/xscO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
IBMhasjustannouncedtheinventionofthePAN—PersonalAreaNetwork—asetofdevicesthatusehumansasconductorstorela
Wearedelightedtoestablishbusinessrelationshipwithyou.
Hewasfinallyenrolledintoamemberofthecollegeafterayear’shardworking.
AsanEnglishmajorstudentatoneofthemostfamousuniversitiesinChina,IstronglybelievethatbusinessEnglishismorepr
ThegeneralmanagerdemandedthejobwillbecompletedbeforetheSpringFestivalholidays.
Howmanyofuswouldtempforthreeyearswhilewewaitedfortheperfectjob?Notmanyofus,perhaps.ButWentworthMiller,th
KingdomofWonders,______in1995inFremont,Calif.,becameanindustrylegendfortwotoys:atalkingbearandaray-gungame.
Themanhadarathershadyoccupationandmadealotofmoneywithinashortperiodoftime.
AboutthousandAmericantroopsarebasedinJapan.MinisterKoizumisentJapanesetroopstoassistrebuildinginIraq.AndJapan
Homosapienswerenotalwayssospecial.Intheancientpast,otherhumanformslivedbesideus.TheNeanderthalsinEurasia.Sm
随机试题
慢性排斥反应的特点有
商业银行管理原则有()原则。
199×年×月×日16时左右,某公司甲酸合成装置因故障全系统停车进行检修,合成反应器甲醇喷管坏,需进合成反应器内进行维修。×月×日上午8时左右,打开合成反应器下部两个人孔进行通风,并从上部人孔加水进行冲洗。下午17时左右,应公司安全处要求打开最上部人孔进行
某工厂由于工人的操作不当造成车间爆炸,造成5人死亡,20人重伤的惨痛事故,此事故按事故造成的人员伤亡分类属于()。
关于仲裁调解的说法,正确的是()。
下列各项中,应计入期间费用的有()。
某商场2018年6月为了促销,推出“买一赠一”的销售方式,买一大桶花生油赠送同一品牌一小瓶花生油,大桶进价每桶30元,售价44元,小瓶进价每瓶7元,售价11元(以上售价均含增值税),假设当月销售大桶花生油100桶,那么该商场当月应确认的大桶花生油的收入为(
企业战略的实质是实现()之间的动态平衡。
唐代制瓷有“南青北白”之说,其所代表的产地分别是()。
Shoppinghasbecomeaprivateaffair.Obviousconsumptiondoesnotlookgoodduringadepression,whichexplainswhysomanyof
最新回复
(
0
)