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[单项选择] HARNESS
John Bird was being hailed as a spiderman hero last night.
John, a fireman, leaped from the roof of an apartment block to save a lovesick woman who had jumped out of her fifth-floor window.
It was the kind of action that normally belongs to the pages of the cartoon character. John, wearing a harness and line, actually caught 25-year-old Jenny Goodman before she hit the ground.
Jenny had been leaning out of the window for several hours threatening to jump. "My lover has left me," she shouted. "I’m alone with a small baby, and I’ve lost my job."
As a priest and policeman talked to her through loudhailers from the street, John and his colleague quietly made their way up the stairs of the six-storey building to the roof.
John put on his harness and attached it to a pillar. Then he leaned over a low wall to listen to the woman’s threats.
After five hours of fruitless chatting with the priest and the police, t
A. 25 minutes.
B. 5 hours.
C. 6 hours.
D. 30 minutes.
[填空题]A
The difference between being a manager and being a leader is simple. Management is a career. Leadership is a calling. You don’t have to be tall, well-spoken and good looking to be a successful leader. You don’t have to have that "special something" to fulfill the leadership role.
B
What you have to have is clearly defined convictions--and, more importantly, the courage of your convictions to see them manifest into reality. Only when you understand your role as guide and steward based on your own moat deeply held truths can you move from manager to leader.
C
Whether the group you oversee is called employees, associates, co-workers, teammates or anything else, what they are looking for is someone in whom they can place their trust. Someone they know is working for the greater good--for them and for the organization. They’re looking for someone not only that they can--but that they want to--follow.
D
Because it is only when you have follo
[填空题]When he opposing player fouled John, John let anger _____ his good sense and hit he boy back.
[单项选择]A. Being forgotten. B. Being identical to other people.
C. Being insignificant. D. Running certain risks.
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The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind, with his will. 61) Each of us wants to feel he or she has the ability to do something that is meaningful and that stands outside of us as a tribute to our inherent abilities. This extension of ourselves--in what our hands and minds can do--fills out our personality and expands our ego.
62) It is easiest to see this in the craftsman who lovingly shapes some base material into object that may be either useful or beautiful or both. You can see the carpenter or bricklayer stand aside and admire the product of his personal skill.
We’ve watched programmers and engineers work fifteen and eighteen hours at a stretch, seven days a week, when a job really got tough and they knew that a crucial deadline had to be met, or when a major project would fail unless some tough problem were solved. 63) They received a substantial personal payoff f
