(1) Finding work-life balance in today’s frenetically (疯狂地) paced world is no simple task.
(2) Spend more time at work than at home, and you miss out on a rewarding personal life. Then again, when you face challenges in your personal life, such as caring for an aging parent or coping with marital problems, concentrating on your job can be difficult.
(3) Whether the problem is too much focus on work or too little, when your work life and your personal life feel out of balance, stress—along with its harmful effects-is the result.
(4) The good news is that you can take control of’ your work-life balance—and give yourself the time to do the things that are most important to you. The first step is to recognize how the world of work has changed. Then you can evaluate your relationship to work and apply some specific strategi
A. global economy
B. changes in family roles
C. advanced communication technology
D. high divorce rate
The history of African-Americans during the past 400 years is traditionally narrated (21) an ongoing straggle against (22) and indifference on the part of the American mainstream, and a straggle (23) as an upward movement is (24) toward ever more justice and opportunity. Technology in and of (25) is not at fault; it’s much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics (26) been the enemy of an (27) group of people. A certain machine is put (28) work in a certain way-the purpose (29) which it was designed. The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to (30) a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply, (31) the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization (32) the Renaissance.
Mastery of technology is second only (33) money as the true measure of accomplishment in this cou
A. itself
B. themselves
C. ourselves
D. himself
Passage Three
The traditional appeal of the income tax has come from its wide acceptance, as a fair tax, closely related to an individual’s ability to pay. For many years the income tax provided large federal income without imposing heavy burdens on the great majority of people. By the mid-20m century, however, serious criticisms of tax loopholes were heard. Concerted attempts at reform resulted only in a more complex and eroded tax base. The situation worsened in the 1970s, as rising inflation pushed people into higher tax brackets although their incomes were barely keeping pace with rising prices. This pressure further eroded public confidence in the fairness of the income tax; at the same time it created strong incentives to utilize tax shelters and other loopholes, as well as to conceal off-the-record income. Built-in inflation adjustments were adopted, first by a number of states and then in 1985 by the federal government.
Income tax policy is in
A. inflation was taken into account in the federal government's income tax policy
B. inflation rate was brought under control and income lax rate was reduced
C. a number of states made their own laws against the rising inflation
D. the federal government adopted several inflation combating policies
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