填空题
Directions:
In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
In Toronto, the careerist’s capital of Canada, when strangers meet, they don’t say "How do you do" They say "What do you do"
It is a question that drives many people crazy because they don’t wish to be defined by or awarded status or demerit points on the basis of their work.
41. ______
It is then, not in the simple job description, that character is revealed and destiny described. The real estate saleswoman confesses she wanted to be a forensic pathologist but was not steered to the right university courses. The lawyer shrugs and says he had no clue what he wanted to do and law school seemed like a good idea at the time. The entrepreneur admits he had this crazy idea about starting a small radio station. The highly capable nurse still laments her family did not have the money to send her to university.
42. ______
For some there is unbelievable success—think of the founders of Google, so young and yet so rich, for others, a life of desperately unsatisfying activity, and for most everyone else, something in between—good years and bad, fulfillment and drudgery.
43. ______
Sometimes I think people invest their careers with the same mythology they do their love lives— the great passion, the career that got away, now looms larger than life. Which is why, in their fifties, many people go looking for that career spark they left behind. And which is why the word "passion" is today popping up in more and more career consultants’ marketing come-ons
44. ______
It starts early in schools. "When they have a career day at my daughter’s school, they usually haul in the parents and that’s a narrow spectrum—a handful of doctors and lawyers," says one Montreal woman who wanted to be an architect but ended up with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. On the other hand it’s difficult to convey how vast the possibilities are without overwhelming students.
45. ______
But how helpful is it to tell someone starting out, actually agonizing over the choices, not to worry because that job won’t be around anyway 20 years from now
The graduates in good shape are the ones who emerge even hungrier to learn. That’s what a great education should really foster: a big appetite for learning, and just a little bit of bravery. It’s not surprising that we don’t all become what we think we want to be. If we did, it would be a pretty dull world.
[A] What kind of a world is it if you can’t get instant status points for being a brain surgeon I guess it’s a world in which you might as well do exactly what you want
[B] We understand, because of our own convoluted life circumstances, that there is no one moment when we fall in love with our work and stay that way, but we don’t demystify the process enough for students.
[C] If you ask people about their professional regrets, they usually involve something they didn’t do, as opposed to something they did. "I didn’t try out enough things when I was young," says one businessman.
[D] In the meantime, on the bumpy road to getting there, there’s always humour. A teenager I know—tired of adults asking her all the time what she wanted to be—decided at a recent family party to just mutter the words "brain surgeon" to any adult in the room.
[E] Choosing what we do for a living—or having it choose us—is, as American author Po Bronson observed in his bestseller What Should I Do with My Life " One of life’s great dramas. " There’s usually a Greek chorus ( the parental unit), an unexpected twist in the road ( can’t get into medical school) and a crisis or two to be overcome.
[F] Because of changing work patterns, we now get it that when you choose a career, it most likely won’t end up being exactly that job or even that career for life.
[G] I say it’s all right to ask the question if you follow it up with a much more interesting second question: "How did you come to do what you do"