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2009-08-08

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  Most of us think that, work is the central, dominating fact of life. We spend more than half our conscious hours at work, preparing for work, commute to and from work. What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to a great extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well. It is sometimes said that because leisure has become more important, the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a comer, that because most work is pretty intolerable, the people who do it should compensate for its boredom, frustrations and humiliations by concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives. I desparately reject that. For the foreseeable future the material and psychological rewards which work can provide, and the conditions in which work is done, will continue to play an essential part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer. Yet only a small minority can control the pace at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done;only for a small minority does work offer scope for creativity,imagination, or initiative.
  Inequality at work and in work is still one of the cmellest and most glaring forms of inequality in our. society. We cannot hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life, many of which arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations created by inequality at work, unless we tackle it head-on. Still less can we hope to create a decent and human society.
  The most glaring inequality is that between managers and the rest. For most managers, work is an opportunity and a challenge. Their jobs engage their interest and allow them to develop their abilities. They are constantly.learning;they can exercise responsibility;they have a considerable degree of control over their own -- and others'-- working lives. The most important thing is that they have opportunity to initiate. By contrast, for most manual workers, and for a growing number of white-collar workers, work is a boring, dull, even painful experience. They spend all their working lives in conditions which would be regarded as intolerable -- for themselves -- by those who make the decisions which let such conditions continue. The majority have little control over their work; it provides them with no opportunity for personal development. Often production is so designed that workers are simply part of the technology. In offices, many jobs are so routine that workers justifiably feel themselves to be mere cogs in the bureaucratic machine. As a direct consequence of their work experience, many workers feel alienated from their work and their firm, whether it is in public or in private ownership.In the writer's opinion,people judge others by____

A.the type of work they d
B.the place where they wor
C.the time they spend at wor
D.the amount of money they ear

参考答案

A

答案解析

  我们中大多数人认为工作是生活中居于中心位置的最重要的事情。我们醒着的时间中一半以上花在工作和为工作做准备及往来通勤上。我们在工作中所作的事在很大程度上决定了我们的生活水平和我们在其他人眼中的地位。有人说,因为休闲已变得比工作更重要,工作中受到的侮辱和不公正待遇可以被放在一边了。也有人说因为大多数工作都难以忍受,工作的人应该把希望集中在生活的其他方面以补偿工作中的乏味、挫折和屈辱。我完全反对这些说法。在可以预见的将来,工作提供的物质和精神回报,以及工作的条件仍将继续在决定生活的满意度上起重要作用。然而只有一小部分人能够控制工作的节奏和工作的条件;只有一小部分人在工作中有发挥创造力、想像力和主动性的空间。
  工作上和工作中的不平等仍是我们社会中一种最残酷和最明显的不平等。除非我们正视这些问题,否则我们不奢望解决工业生活中那些更明显的问题。其中许多都直接或间接地源于工作上不平等造成的挫折。我们就更不能奢望创造一个令人满意的、人性化的社会。
  最明显的不平等是管理者与其他人之间的不平等。对多数管理者来说,工作是一种机遇和挑战。他们的工作是他们兴趣所在,并允许他们发展自己的能力。他们在不断地学习;他们能行使责任;他们在很大程度上控制自己和他人的职业生涯。最重要的是他们有机会去创造。相比之下,对多数体力工人和日益增多的白领工人来说,工作是一种单调、枯燥,甚至痛苦的经历。他们整个职业生涯都在一种在决策群看来是无法忍受的工作条件中度过。而这些决策者又让这种条件继续存在。多数人控制不了自己的工作;工作不能给他们带来个人发展的机会。生产过程经常是这样设计的,工人只是技术的一部分。在办公室里,许多工作都千篇一律,以致工人有理由觉得自己只是大的官僚机构中微不足道的小职员。他们的工作经历的直接结果是许多工人都觉得与他们的工作和公司疏远,不论是公有还是私有的公司。
  答案及解析
  【解析】文章第一段第二行:What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to a great extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well.我们所做的工作决定着我们的生活水平,在更大程度上也决定了我们的社会地位是

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