This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not geneticall

Successful Marriage

Successful marriage and love relationships all require simple, practical acts-such as simple conversations and simple gestures.

Success in love and marriage depends upon an accumulation(积累)of these simple___26____ to create the foundation for building a____27___ love. Many relationship experts say that adding positive behaviors to the relationship has a much greater impact(影响) on couples' happiness. It is easy to understand the essential points of a successful marriage, yet difficult for many couples to practice in their relationship. Here are two ways as examples to deepen your relationship bond, and be a happier couple.

Firstly, it is__28___ to accept your partner's uniqueness(独特性). We have all had moments when we wished our partner____29___ thinner, wealthier, more romantic, and so on.

This is not a realistic hope. We should let go of expectations because it may fail our relationships.

____30____,you should show loving acts often. Hand holding, touching, or a midday love email are all small ways of showing affection. According to the research, small gestures have a bigger impact on couple happiness than great, less often gestures.

26. A. ways B. way C. away

27. A. last B. lasted C. lasting

28. A. better B. good C. best

29. A. is B. was C. will be

30. A. Second B. The second C. Secondly

Most companies expect IT (Information Technology) managers to head an IT staff of computer technicians. But IT managers can also specialize in other areas. Some managers may also be responsible for keeping their company’s Internet safety. They protect both their company and their online customers from thieves.

Other managers focus more on the business rather than the technical part of computing. They become project managers, helping companies reach as many online customers as possible.

Some companies also look for IT managers who can act as trainers. These trainers help a company’s computer technicians keep up-to-date on computer skills.

Most companies require their IT managers to have both a bachelor’s degree and some experience in the computer field. Often, companies hire IT managers out of their existing staff of computer technicians.

Since IT managers are extremely important to companies’ success, it’s no surprise that they receive such high salaries – around US $56,000 a year to start with. And, in such a fast-changing field,

managers’ salaries usually increase after only a couple of years.

The world will be watching to see just how quickly e-commerce replaces the old ways of doing business. And as computers change the way the world does business, IT managers will be in the middle of it all. Few companies can survive without them.

Besides being the leader of computer technicians, IT managers are also expected to be ________.

(A) experienced product designers

(B) skilled online technicians

(C) doctorate holders

(D) online safety specialists

has two aspects: that of the wife who is more of a success than her husband and that of the wife who must rely heavily on her husband for help with domestic tasks. There are various ways in which the impact of the first difficulty can be reduced. Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude. Where there are ranks, it is best if the couple work in different fields so that the husband can find some special reason for the superiority of the lowest figure in his to the most elevated in his wife's.

A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to re-allocate domestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields! "Practically never...in a working-class home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever—more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as my experience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if. merely because he was out of work, he developed in a 'Mary Ann'".

It is over the care of young children that this re-allocation of duties becomes really significant. For this, unlike the cooking of fish fingers or the making of beds, is an inescapably time-consuming occupation, and time is what the fully employed wife has no more to spare of than her husband.

The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who comes within range and, of course, with all degrees of tentativeness. What decides the issue of whether a genuine courtship is going to get under way is the woman's response. If she shows interest the engines of persuasion are set in movement. The truth is that in courtship society gives women the real power while pretending to give it to men.

What does seem clear is that the more men and women are together, at work and away from it, the more the comprehensive amorousness of men towards women will have to go, despite all its past evolutionary services. For it is this that makes inferiority at work abrasive and, more indirectly, makes domestic work seem unmanly, if there is to be an equalizing redistribution of economic and domestic tasks between men and women there must be a compensating redistribution of the erotic initiative. If women will no longer let us beat them they must allow us to join them as the blushing recipients of flowers and chocolates.

Paragraph One advises the working wife who is more successful than her husband to______.

A．work in the same sort of job as her husband

B．play down her success, making it sound unimportant

C．stress how much the family gains from her high salary

D．introduce more labour-saving machinery into the home

ot about foot pain. But unlike most of her colleagues(同事),she turned her pain into money: Today she is the boss of Taryn Rose International, a $528 million company that makes nice and comfortable shoes.

At the beginning, Rose realized the only thing that could stop her was fear of ,failure. "I couldhear my friends and family saying, 'Why did you leave a good job？' If I failed, would I be okay facing them？ And: t thought, 'So what？ I can go back for further study in medicine.' I started to accept that it would be okay to say, 'I failed, but I tried.' Once I was comfortable with that th6fight, the fear came to an end. I realized I feared regret more than failure. And after you turn to the path you choose, there is nothing acceptable but Success"

Now, Rose has no regrets about leaving medicine. "What I'm doing is not all that different from: what I Was doing as a doctor. The goal is the same: to relieve (减轻) pain. A former professor told me: 'You're helping hundreds of thousands of women with your shoes. As a doctor, you would have helped only the few who went to your office. You're having a much greater effect.'

Looking back, Rose admits she caught a couple of lucky breaks. "To me, luck is about being prepared for those opportunities (机会) that come knocking. You have to have an open mind, the right skilis and all your senses working 'to see what opportunities present themselves. Luck can open the door, but you still have to walk through it."

36. Before starting:her shoe business, Taryn Rose was a _

A. nurse B. worker C. doctor D. boss

ic team with keen enthusiasm and desire to learn and grow.

One day the team was called to play a game in a hall.As they entered the hail, they found the hall decorated beautifully with colourful decorative papers and balloons.It was more like a kid’s play area than a corporate meeting hall.Everyone was surprised and gazed at each other.Also, there was a huge box of balloons placed at the centre of the hall.

The team leader asked everyone to pick a balloon from the box an blow it.Then he asked them to write their names on their balloon carefully so that the balloons didn’t blow up.

Those who failed were ruled out of the game.Altogether 25 employees were qualified for the next level.All the balloons were collected and then put into a room.

The team leader asked the 25 employees to go to the room and pick the balloon with their own name on it.All 25 employees reached the room.While they were in a rush to find the respective balloons, they tried not to burst the balloons.It was almost 15 minutes and no one was able to find the balloon carrying his own name.

The team was told that the second level of the game was over.

Now it was the third and final level.The employees were asked to pick any balloon in the room and give it to the person named on the balloon.Within a couple of minutes ail balloons reacted the hands of the respective employee.

The team leader announced: This is called real solutions to the problems.

21.When the employees were called to play a game, they ____.

A.knew what game they were going to play

B.laughed at the idea of adults playing a game

C.had no idea what they were asked to do

D.looked forward to playing a kid’s game

22.At the first level of the game, each employee was asked to ____.

A.blow a balloon and write his name on it

B.put his name on a balloon and blow it

C.pick up a balloon with his name on it

D.write his name on a floating balloon

23.How many employees failed the second level of the game？()

A.30

B.25

C.15

D.5

24.The key to success at the third level of the game lies in ____.

A.thinking positively

B.helping each other

C.believing in oneself

D.increasing efficiency

25.What does the software company aim to do？()

A.Encourage its employees to learn from each other

B.Train its employees to face all kinds of challenges

C.Select the employees most suitable for their jobs

D.Teach its employees the importance of teamwork

The retired couple ()a rich and colorful life.

A.lead

B.hold

C.make

D.have

A．a great deal of

B．a number of

C．a lot of

D．a couple of