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[单项选择]The famous Dr. Edward Jenner was busy trying to solve the problem of smallpox. After studying case after case, he still found no possible cure. He had reached an impasse in his thinking. At this point, he changed his tactics. Instead of focusing on people who had smallpox, he switched his attention to people who did not have smallpox. It turned out that dairymaids(挤奶女工)apparently never got the disease. From the discovery that harmless cowpox gave protection against deadly smallpox came vaccination(牛痘) and the end of smallpox as a scourge(灾祸) in the Western world.
We often reach an impasse in our thinking. We are looking at a problem and trying to solve it and it seems there is a deadened, and "aporia" (the technical term in logic meaning "no opening"). It is on these occasions that we become tense, we feel pressured, overwhelmed, in a state of stress. We struggle vainly, fighting to solve the problem. Dr. Jenner, however, did something about this situation. He stopped fighting the
A. He kept on focusing on people who had smallpox.
B. He changed his way of thinking by turning to people without smallpox.
C. Dairymaids advised that he use cowpox to experiment.
D. He happened to discover cowpox and he experimented with it on dairymaids.
[单项选择]Since he was busy, so he didn’t come.
A. Since
B. was
C. so
D. didn’t
[单项选择]Because our work is very busy, so we need to relax at midday.
A. We are very busy,
B. Our work being busy,
C. Our work so very busy,
D. Because our work so very busy,
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One busy day, I was racing around trying to get too much done, and I exclaimed to my three kids in the car, "We can get both things done and kill two birds with one stone!" My daughter Annie quietly suggested, "You mean feed two birds with one crumb, Mom, don’t you " I stopped short, realizing how steeped my language is in the culture of war. I had used "weapon" language without even knowing it. I was embarrassed and yet felt a grace: if a child can become conscious of using a new language of peace, then there is hope.
Think about the business language: strategies, bullets, high-caliber, power point; about win-lose sports language like "decimate", "attack", "destroy the other team" , not to mention the movies and video games that simulate the most gruesome annihilations over and over. The lies of propaganda, one-sided media coverage, the alienation of others (those terrorists, the axis of evil) , all part o
A. Gratified
B. Ashamed
C. Indignant
D. Panicked
[填空题]Nowadays people are so busy with their dally routines that they neglect to ______.
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Managing Priorities
Most of us are kept so busy managing our own lives that we can’t imagine how top executives manage the work of thousands of people and millions of dollars and still have time to eat, sleep, and live.
(9) But in talking about how they run their lives and companies, they do tend to focus on common themes.
Unfortunately, popular time management courses are not the answer. Even the founder of the time management movement, Alec Mackenzie, agrees that few people who take his courses stick with the techniques and really benefit from them.
(10) Like many other company executives, Alcoa’s CEO, Paul O’Neill, lists "quality" among his highest priorities~ But at the very top of his list is a surprise, "safety. " Alcoa leads its industry in safety and has been cutting its injury records by 50% every five years. O’Neill feels that to make an operation truly safe, you must understand it perfectly and m
