更多"A lot of people were ready to work "的相关试题:
[单项选择]She is always ready to help people in trouble because she think it a ______.
A. decision
B. chance
C. pride
D. pleasure
[单项选择]They work long hours but do not earn enough to ensure a（）living for themselves and their families.
A. reticent
B. decent
C. innocent
D. descended
[简答题]People do not work long hours only for more money. In such fields as advertising, show business, and journalism, the glamour and publicity are worth more than any monetary benefit. Once they finish their work satisfactorily, they want to relax and enjoy themselves. For these people, the solution is to find a company that encourages people to do both.
[简答题]Flexible working hours were invented in Germany in the late 1960s, but reached Britain only in 1972. The system allows workers to start and finish work whenever they want, with only two requirements. Firstly, all workers must be present for certain "key" times in a day, and secondly, all workers must work an agreed total number of hours per week.
[单项选择]A. The working hours were unsuitable.
B. The job was not well paid.
C. He had to do a lot of traveling.
D. He didn’t want to be a travel agent.
[单项选择]A. The working hours were not suitable. B. The job was not well paid.
C. He had to do a lot of traveling. D. The job was quite difficult.
[单项选择]It would have taken hours to work the sum out, so he（）his pocket calculator.
A. turned out
B. turned to
C. turned up
D. turned off
[单项选择]A) The shorter hours they work, the higher pay they can enjoy.
B) The more they work, the less leisure they can enjoy.
C) The shorter hours they work, the less pay they can get.
D) The greater pressure they bear, the unhappier they can he.
[填空题]At the time when their parents were young, a lot of modern necessary equipment owned by young people now was regarded as ______.
[填空题]A rapid means of long-distance transportation became a necessity for
the United States as settlement spread farther westward. For a long time
the railroad companies met with troubled mechanical problems. The most (1) ______
serious were the construction of rails able to bear the load, and the
development of the safe, effective stopping system. Once these were solved, (2) ______
and the railroad was established as the best means of land transportation. (3) ______
By 1860 they had built thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern
mountain ranges and reaching westward in the Mississippi.
The high point in railroad building came by the construction of the (4) ______
first transcontinental railroad. In 1862 Congress had authorized two (5) ______
railroad companies to build lines from Nebraska westward and from
California eastward to a meeting point so as to complete a transcontinental
system. The Central Pacific Company, starti
