5.Travis is the manager of G&G where he is responsible for forty employees (雇員)and profits (利潤)of over $2 million per year.He's never late to work.He does not get upset on the job.When one of his employees started crying after a customer screamed at her,Travis took her away."Your working uniform is your shelter,"he told her."Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you.You will always be as strong as you want to be."
Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses,an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation.The training has,Travis says,changed his life.G&G has taught him how to live,how to focus,how to get to work on time,and how to master his emotions (情緒).Most importantly,it taught him willpower.
At the center of that education is an extreme focus on an all-important habit; willpower.Dozens of cases show that willpower is the single most important habit for a person's success.
And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit."Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard-but that's because they've made it automatic,"Angela Duckworth,one of the University of Pennsylvania
researchers said."Their willpower occurs without them having to think about it."
The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train
employees on self-control.Managers wrote workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers'lives.Those courses arc,in part,why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than 10 billion a year.
33.We loam from Paragraph 2that employees in G&G mustB.
A.learn to give lectures
B.attend education programs
C.design a working uniform
D.develop a common hobby
34.Willpower will become a habit when employees canD.
A.focus on the profits
B.benefit from the job
C.protect themselves well
D.control their feeling well
35.What can we infer from the passage?C
A.G&G has grown into a large company.
B.G&G will spend half its profits training employees.
C.G&G may become more successful in the future.
D.G&G has to produce more workbooks for managers.
分析 本文通過G&G公司的培訓課程告訴我們:人的意志力是我們能否取得成功的關鍵.公司的成功秘訣就是讓員工參加一個教育課程,從而獲得自控力,使意志力成為習慣,加強意志力最好的方法就是讓意志力成為一種習慣.
解答 33.B 細節理解題.根據第二段的"Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses,an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation."可知,G&G的培訓課程在新員工入職第一天就開始,而且貫穿于員工的工作之中.也就是說G&G的員工都得參加這樣的培訓課程.故選B.
34.D 細節理解題.根據第三段的"And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit."Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard-but that's because they've made it automatic"可知,加強意志力最好的方法就是讓意志力成為一種習慣.有自控力的人好像不要很努力就可以獲得意志力,因為它們已經是自動的了.也就是說當員工能夠很好地控制自己的感情時,就會讓意志力成為習慣.故選D.
35.C 推理判斷題.根據最后一段的"The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control."和 最后一句"Those courses are,in part,why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year."可知,這家公司在培訓員工自控力方面花了很多錢,而且也讓公司發展得很好,正是因為在員工培訓方面的投入很大,所以他們可能在未來會取得更大的成功.故選C.
點評 本文是政治經濟類閱讀,考查學生對細節的理解把握和推理判斷能力,做題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確選擇.在做推理判斷題時不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.