[单项选择]Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful ______ it forces people to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. by which
B. to which
C. in that
D. so that

[单项选择]Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful ______ it forces people to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. by which
B. to which
C. in that
D. so that

[单项选择]Many people view retirement as a time to stop working. But new research shows that people who take on full- or part-time jobs after retirement have better health.
The finding is based on data collected from 12,189 men and women over a 6-year period. The participant.,;, who were from ages 51 to 61 at the start of the study, answered questions about their employment history, experiences after retirement and their physical and mental health. Researchers from the University of Maryland found that men and women who kept working after retirement had fewer major diseases or disabilities than those who quit work, according to the study. Retirees benefited whether the work was a full- or part-time job, self-employment or temporary.
While working after retirement is good for you, the data also suggest that retirees shouldn’t take on just any job. Among those who kept working, the retirees who found work related to their previous careers had the best mental health. The study authors spe
A. It shows working is also good for people’s physical health.
B. The participants were tracked over a 14-year period and then investigated at 70.
C. Retirees will live another 12 vears if they keep on working.
D. It finds the 70-year-olds would live another 2.5 years if they kept working.

[单项选择]"Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison from which they are paroled every Friday," says Joel Gookman, founder of The Humor Project, a humor-consulting group in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job.
According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville, an office with humor breaks is an office with satisfied and productive employees. Pollio conducted a study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production task. Employees perform better when they have fun.
In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress, "Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization," says Lynn M. Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis.
Kodak’s Rochester, N.Y., branch discovered a way for its 20,000 employees to uncork their bottomed-up resentment
A. the door of an office is always locked
B. the office workers have no freedom
C. there is no work break in the office
D. the atmosphere in the office is solemn

[填空题]Many Irish people thought a simple view of history was ______ in Northern Ireland.

[简答题](1)To stop halfway is very bad.
(2) Many people failed because they stopped halfway.
(3) To finish a job, whether hard or not, it requires confidence.

[单项选择]Passage Three