Designer clothes? A luxury home? Jill Summers, 28, doesn’t want these things. She says her lottery win of ￡2m isn’t going to change her life.Jill and her husband Derrick, 30, live and work on a farm in Ashford, south-east England. They get up at 4:30 am, seven days a week, 365 days a year.“We’re not stopping now, just because we’ve had some good luck,” says Jill. She and Derrick say they aren’t leaving the family home. “We’re very happy here,” says the lucky Mrs. Summers.Next month the couple are going on their first holiday for eight years. “We’re travelling around Asia and Australia for a few months,” says Derrick. And what about the business? “We’re paying someone to look after the farm. For the first time in eight years.”And what else are they doing with the money? “Well, tomorrow we’re picking up our new car. And next week we’re having a big party for all our friends and family. We’re giving 10% of the money to charity. But we aren’t planning any big changes.”And does she still play the lottery? “Why not, some of the money goes to good causes.”1. Jill and her husband get up at 4:30 every morning.2. They are going to buy a new house.3. They are going on a holiday.4. They haven’t paid anyone to look after the farm during the last eight years.5. Jill will not play lottery any more.

He’ ll only wear clothes with a designer label. （翻译)

里,另外下面还有 5 题作业,请往下看,完成补全单词,用刚抄过的单词完成哦 1. 职业和性格才能的词汇及词组: salesperson 销售员, actor/actress 演员 / 女演员, secretary 秘书 , typist 打字员 , clothes designer 服装设计师 , kindergarten teacher 幼儿园教师; creative 有创造力的 , confident 有信心的 , outgoing 外向的 , good at sports 擅长运动 , good with hands 动手能力强 , good with directions 方向感好, can speak fluent English 能说流利的英语 2. 面试时的常用语: Could you tell me something about yourself 您能谈谈自己的情况吗 I’ll graduate from... school in... 我将于 ... 毕业于某学校 Have you ever done a part-time job 您曾做过兼职吗 Yes, I have worked as... in...for... 是的,我曾经在 ...（）

e. The real test is whether they can survive and become established during their early 20s making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can count for as much as flair(眼光) and creativity.

Fashion is a hard business. There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant breakneck (高速而危险的) speed to prepare for the next season's collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to cultivate good coverage in newspapers and magazines. It al so requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy. "We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is," says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London. "And we point out that drive and determination are essential."

This may seem far removed from the popular image of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses, That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college won't be slow in introducing students to commercial realities. "We don't stamp on the blossoming flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the constraints of price, manufacturability, marketing and so on."

Almost all fashion design is done to a brief. It is not a form. of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and innovation. Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a manufacturer or fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style. of their employer. Even those students who are most avant-garde (标新立异的) in their own taste of clothes and image may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the main stream of market. They also have to be able to work at both tire exclusively expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding.

To be successful as a fashion designer you must ______.

A．have excellent academic qualifications

B．be able to handle business problems

C．be well established before you are 20

D．have taken an intensive commercial course

. The real test is whether they can survive and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can count for as much as flair and creativity.

Fashion is a hard business. There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant breakneck speed to prepare for the next season's collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to cultivate good coverage in newspapers and magazines. It also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is insatiable(不能满足的). "We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is", says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London, "and we point out that drive and determination are essential".

This may seem far removed from the popular image of trendy(时髦的) and dilettante(浅薄的) young people spending their time designing pretty dresses. That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college won't be slow in introducing students to commercial realities. "We don't stamp on the blossoming flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the constraints of price, manufacturability, marketing and so on".

Almost all fashion design is done to a brief(任务提示，说明). It is not a form. of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and innovation. Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a manufacturer or fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style. of their employer. Even those students who are most avant-garde[(艺术等)激进派] in their own taste of clothes and image may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the mainstream Marks and Spencer type of market. They also have to be able to work at both the exclusively expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be more demanding than where money is no object.

To be successful as a fashion designer you must ______.

A．have excellent academic qualifications

B．be able to handle business problems

C．be well established before you are 20

D．have taken an intensive commercial course