Editor: Zhejiang University

Press: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

The kid with the key-Benedict, Benedict, is anyone home?

In the past few decades, the cost of living in the United States has been increasing. Food prices. Clothing costs, house costs and tuition fees are getting higher and higher. Mothers give up the traditional role of full-time housewives, partly because of economic needs and partly because they want to get a sense of accomplishment through work. They are increasingly engaged in paid work outside the home.

Such a major role change affects the whole family, especially the children. Some consequences are very obvious. For example, dinner time was postponed. On the other hand, this change has a more subtle impact on emotions. Mothers leave home with guilt in the morning because they won't be at home when their children come back from school. They suppress their guilt because they believe that in the long run, their work will benefit everyone. Their income will enable families to save money for their children to go to college. Take a long vacation, buy a new car, etc.

It has a great influence on children's emotions. Usually, children feel hurt and angry. After all, they stayed alone for a few hours, and they felt that their mother should wait for them there. They may need someone to help them finish their homework, or want to tell their mother about their day's activities. However, mothers usually come home exhausted and face an urgent task-preparing dinner. Their first task is to cook dinner for the whole family, not to chat easily.

Children with keys range in age from 6 to 13. Every day when I come home from school, I open the door with a key around my neck and stay alone in a quiet and empty room. For some children, this kind of personal time is very rewarding, while for others, it is a frightening loneliness and emptiness. For safety reasons, many parents don't allow their children to go out to play or take guests home. Therefore, children will feel isolated.

The children who hung the keys in the interview had different reactions. Some children say that they spend a few hours every day to cultivate or stimulate their sense of independence and responsibility. They feel loved and trusted, which encourages them to become confident. The girl who hung the key learned the example of a working mother by observing how her mother kept the house and worked. Some children say that they use this unsupervised free time to improve their sports skills, such as playing basketball. There are also some children reading books or practicing musical instruments. These children regard their free time after school as an opportunity for personal development. This period of time has brought them positive and valuable experiences.

On the contrary, many children hang their keys and show a lot of pain, resentment and anger because they have to live in this way. Many children say that at a very young age, they were given too many responsibilities; This is a burden they can't bear. As children, they need the protection, encouragement and careful care of their mothers. Returning to an empty home is disappointing, lonely and usually terrible. They feel abandoned by their mother. After all, in their view, other children have "normal" families, their mothers are "around" and their mothers are never at home. Very old children turn on the TV all afternoon every day, just to eliminate loneliness; Besides, the sound of TV is also gratifying. Usually, they fall asleep like this.

Either because of economic needs, or the firm determination to realize personal value, or both, the phenomenon of children hanging keys is very common in our society. Whatever the reason, this is an emergency that many families must solve. The question is not whether mothers should work full-time. Considering the implementation of this phenomenon, the question to be asked is: How can we make an appropriate plan to deal with this situation effectively?

It is feasible that all family members should frankly express their feelings and concerns about this inevitable change and fully discuss it. Many factors must be considered: the child's personality and maturity, the length of time the child is alone at home, whether the family is safe around, and whether help can be obtained in an emergency. Harmony between parents and children is the most important thing. It is also important to convince children that their parents love them. Feeling loved gives children precious emotional strength and enables them to overcome many difficulties in life.

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Manhattan robber's plan

Martin has lived in new york for forty years and has never been robbed. This did not reassure him, on the contrary, it frightened him. In his opinion, he is the next most likely person to be robbed in Manhattan.

"What are my chances of being robbed?" He asked his friend Lenny.

"How much do you want to bet?" Lenny said that he was a real gambler.

"Come on, you dare to bet on such an important thing!"

"Nothing is too important to gamble," Lenny said in surprise. This became the end of their friendship.

"How do you think I can avoid being robbed?" Martin asked his friend Grace. Grace hasn't left the apartment door for five years, thinking that she won't be robbed. But it also failed. Someone broke into the house and robbed.

"I don't know, Martin," she said, "but most of these guys take drugs. They need money to satisfy their addiction. "

This gave Martin an idea. If those robbers just need money to buy drugs, why not provide them with drugs? He bought some heroin and cocaine through some rich friends. He hasn't touched these things himself, so he should label them carefully to make sure they don't get mixed up.

One day, he was walking in Central Park. He shouldn't go where there are grass and trees. Three people jumped in front of him. A black man, a Puerto Rican man and a white man. Oh, she thought, at least in terms of robbery, the nationalities have merged.

"Do you want drugs?" He shouted, "I have! Anything you want. Tell me. But don't touch me! "

The three men let him go with great respect.

"We almost made a big mistake," said one of them. "This guy is a drug dealer. If we hurt him, we will be in trouble with the mafia. Let's have a look at your goods, sir. "

Martin was surprised to find himself showing goods to customers. To his surprise, he found that he accepted their money, much more than when he bought it.

"How did you get so much money?" He asked, "If you have money, why rob it?"

"Well, actually, we are not real robbers," Caucasians are a little unnatural. "We are unemployed actors."

"I thought people in the entertainment circle would be waiters or bar waiters." Martin said.

"yes. But now there are too many artists in the catering industry to find jobs as waiters. Therefore, we have to rob. "

When Martin came home, he bought more drugs from his friends. It was soon sold to more robbers. Soon, he found himself spending more and more time dealing drugs and making more and more money. Fear of being robbed made him a professional drug dealer.

Another man jumped in front of him and suddenly caught him. "Do you want drugs?" Martin said, "I have."

"I want money." A familiar voice said.

"Lenny!" Martin cried, "How are you now?"

"Too bad," Lenny said. "I lost the bet."

He hit Martin on the head and took his money, wallet and credit card, leaving only a small packet of white powder.

thief

He first noticed that the young woman was waiting in line at the airport ticket office to buy tickets. Her shiny black hair was tied tightly in a bun at the back of her head-the man imagined it would fall to her waist when she came down-and she was wearing a leather coat and carrying a heavy black bag on her shoulder. She is wearing soft black boots. He wanted to see her face clearly (but she was right in front of him). He didn't fully see her beauty until he bought a ticket and turned away. Her fair skin, black eyes and plump lips made his heart beat faster. She seemed to realize that he was staring at her and quickly lowered her eyes.

The conductor interrupted him. The man stopped staring at the woman and bought a round-trip economy class ticket to the eastern city-he thought she might be twenty-five.

His class will start in an hour. To kill time, the man walked into a cocktail bar at the airport and ordered a scotch whisky with water. While drinking wine, he looked at the crowd at the airport, including many unmarried beautiful women in fashionable clothes-until he saw the dark-haired girl in leather coat again. She is standing beside a tourist information desk, chatting happily with another girl, who is blonde and wearing a gray fur cotton coat. Somehow, he wanted to get the attention of the dark-haired girl. No matter where she is going, he wants to buy her a drink before she leaves. Although he once thought she was looking at him, he couldn't meet her eyes through the twilight bar. After a while, the two women separated; But none of them walked in his direction. He ordered another whisky.

When he saw her again, he was buying a magazine to read on the plane. He felt someone pushing him. At first, he was surprised that someone would meet him so close, but when he saw who it was, he squeezed out a smile.

"It's too crowded here." He said.

She looked up at him-did she blush? A strange expression flashed across her mouth. She left him and joined the crowd at the airport.

The man was still standing in front of the counter with a magazine, but when he reached into his back pocket to get his wallet, he found that his pocket was empty. Where can I lose it? He thought. His mind began to flash with credit cards, cash, membership cards and ID cards. Inner fear stirred his stomach. The girl was so close to me, he thought-he suddenly realized that she had stolen his wallet.

what should he do ？ The ticket was still there, safely folded in his coat pocket-he reached into his jacket and felt for the envelope to make sure. He can also get on the plane, call someone to pick him up at the destination-because he doesn't even have the money to take the bus-and fly home when he's done. But at the same time, he has to deal with the lost credit card-call home, ask his wife to find the card number from the top drawer of his desk, and call the credit card company-the whole process is too difficult, and the whole thing makes him feel suffocated. what should he do ？

First of all: call the police, tell him what happened and describe the woman; Damn it, he thought, as if to show his affection for him, to stand so close to him and turn red when he spoke-all this was just to steal his money. She blushed not because she was shy, but because she was afraid of being caught. This is the most disgusting. Liar, go to hell. He won't discuss the details with the police, just tell them what she did and what was in her wallet. He gnashed his teeth. He may never see his wallet again.

Just as he hesitated to take the time to tell the security guard next to the X-ray detector, he was surprised-extremely happy-to see the dark-haired girl. She sat with her back to a glass window in the front of the terminal. In the twilight, taxis and private cars passed slowly behind her. She seems to be absorbed in reading. The seat next to her was empty and the man sat down.

"I've been looking for you." He said.

She gave him a look she didn't know. "I don't know you." She said.

"You must know."

She sighed and put the book aside. "You all think so-make friends with women like us, as if we were lost animals. Who do you take me for? "

"You stole my wallet." He said. He is happy to use the word "steal" and thinks it sounds much more complicated than "steal", "take" or even "rob".

"What did you say?" The girl said.

"I know you did it-in front of the magazine counter. If you return my wallet, the whole thing will be forgotten; If you don't, I'll take you to the police station. "

He looked at her with a serious expression. "All right," she said. She put the black bag on her lap and took out a wallet from it.

He brought it here. "Wait," he said. "This is not mine."

The girl ran away, and he followed. Just like the scene in the movie, the onlookers scattered around and the girls circled around to avoid being hit. His own panting voice reminded him that he was old-until he heard a woman's voice behind him:

"Stop, thief! Stop him! "

The dark-haired girl in front of him disappeared around a corner, at the same time, a young man in a navy uniform stretched his legs and tripped him. He had a bad fall, and his knees and elbows fell heavily on the airport floor, but he still clung to the wallet that didn't belong to him.

The wallet belongs to the lady, and it is full of money and credit cards from different stores. It belongs to the blonde in the leather-trimmed dress-the one who talked to the brunette who stole the wallet earlier. She and the policeman who followed her were panting.

"That's him," said the blonde. "He stole my wallet."

It happened that this man couldn't even prove his identity to the police.

Two weeks later, all the embarrassment and anger disappeared, the personal lawyer's fee was paid, and the chaos at home subsided-at this time, the wallet appeared in an email in the morning without any explanation. The wallet is intact, nothing is missing, and all the cards are still in their original places. Although he breathed a sigh of relief, he felt guilty all his life when he saw the police, and he was also ashamed in front of women.

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Unit 4 Text Translation

Editor: Zhejiang University

Press: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Career planning

1 Career planning does not necessarily follow routines or logical steps. Each of us has different emphasis on different factors and may consider different aspects of career planning at different times. In career planning, it is necessary to collect information about yourself and your career, predict the possible results of taking various actions, and finally make choices that you think are attractive and feasible.

Many observers point out that students are not very good at career planning. They cited the following facts: 1) Most students choose a narrow career range; 2) As many as 40% to 60% of students choose professional jobs, but only 15% to 18% of employees are actually doing professional jobs; 3) Young men are not interested in clerical, sales and service industries, although these fields will provide many employment opportunities; 4) As many as one third of the students can't say what career to choose.

3 Owen? Janice and Leon? Mann pointed out in their book Decision-making that many people's decision-making methods are seriously flawed, and these problems seem to be related to the way people deal with problems. Some people turn a blind eye to the information that needs painstaking consideration when choosing a job, which is a sign of complacency. Some people adopt the attitude of "it won't affect me" or "it will never happen" and take complacency as the leading behavior mode. Of course, it is okay to be complacent about decisions that do not determine success or failure, but it is not allowed to be complacent about decisions involving career.

The second defect of people's decision-making mode is passive avoidance. Whenever faced with a choice, they think they can't find a suitable solution, some people daydream or daydream to keep calm. Some students do not take into account the influence of career choice, and often adopt the attitude of whitewashing (self-satisfaction but deceiving themselves by giving a wrong explanation of their behavior) or delaying (postponing or delaying). It may be anxious to face the status quo, but it can also be comforting to seriously consider various schemes.

The third flaw is that you are too nervous. When people are faced with career choices and feel that they don't have enough time to find solutions, they will panic. They nervously look for various employment opportunities, and then make hasty decisions, ignoring the consequences of this choice and other career opportunities. People who panic are easily confused and lack logic.

The best way is to look at all directions and listen to all directions. When people are convinced of the following three points, they will make a wise decision: 1) They should make a choice; 2) I can find a solution to the problem myself; 3) Have enough time. In this way, students can effectively seek various possible occupations, carefully weigh each possibility and make emergency plans to deal with various risks.

7 The following are the key steps of career planning:

8 1. Study yourself. This is the key to career planning. Knowing who you are, what you value and what kind of person you want to be is the basis of the whole career planning. In the process of studying yourself, you should examine your own advantages and disadvantages, your own goals and your own development direction. Knowing yourself enables you to imagine which occupations best suit your personality, interests, abilities and goals. All career choices require us to know both ourselves and related jobs, and to combine these two aspects.

9 2. Write down your career goals. We should sum up our thoughts on career development. A practical way is to write down these ideas one by one according to different periods of your life. The writing process forces you to clear your mind and realize that those are vague and immature ideas. This will give you a new understanding of your development prospects, help you look at new relationships, models and directions, or make clear what you are not doing when considering your career development.

10 3. Check your plan and progress with others regularly. Sometimes it is necessary to evaluate your situation and consider what to do next. Assessing your progress and planning the next step will help you cope with the changes you are experiencing and the changes in the labor market. Discuss your plan with your college counselors, parents and friends, which will help you to define your goals, improve your career plan, or make your plan come true.

1 1 4. If your chosen career doesn't suit you, you can start over. Nowadays, more and more men and women are changing careers or starting a career that is more attractive to them. Once many of them find that their industries are unsatisfactory, they will re-attend the training to seek other occupations. These new occupations are often neglected when they are young, or they have no chance to engage in them because of the economic or other reasons at that time.

Sociologists say that almost no career change is "downhill". According to traditional concerns, most of them are "upward". Society no longer regards job-hopping as a "restless" and shameful thing as before.

13 changing jobs and occupations can happen at any age. It is estimated that as many as a quarter of men aged 20 to 25 will change jobs. In the age group of 25 to 44, the proportion is about one in eight.

14 career planning does not guarantee that all the problems, difficulties or decision-making situations you will face in the future will be solved or made easy. There is no magic formula to do this. However, career planning can help you face or better deal with new problems, such as deciding whether to receive education or training in a certain field or whether to change jobs, and it can also help you analyze the difficulties you are facing or the difficulties in interacting with someone.

15 No one can foresee the future of any of us. Some social, emotional and moral factors to be considered in the future are unpredictable. But this often unsatisfactory modern world has taught us the most important lesson, that is, progress comes from planning. Ignorance of one's career is not a blessing. Reason is more important than opportunity and destiny.

Summer work planning

1 If you know what you want to do after graduation (if you haven't chosen a career now, you may be considered short-sighted), then you should consider looking for a job long before graduation.

2 Which companies or organizations will have the job you want? Suppose your major is English or history and you want to write a great novel, then you need a job to pay for your life and education. You have to choose from a series of possibilities, just as you choose an option from a "menu" on a computer screen. You may have the following options: a. Work for a publishing company; b. Work for a technology company; c. Work for a public relations company; d. Go to graduate school and make no decision; e. Other.

If you choose A, it is a good idea to write to more than a dozen publishing houses during your college years and ask for an interview with the personnel supervisor. If you happen to have an acquaintance who is an editor, so much the better.

4. Try every means to get an interview. You should be familiar with this company before the interview. The purpose of the interview is to express your interest in working in this company to the personnel manager. You can ask whether you can do a summer job (if possible, you should be paid) or an intern. In many cases, interns are not paid, but there are also cases where they are not paid.

At this stage of life, it is very important to find a summer job that can promote your future career. If you can't find a job in this major, you can choose another summer job-lifeguard, house painter, gardener, waitress, or staff in retail stores or supermarkets. These jobs usually pay well, and you can save enough money to meet many expenses in college. But these jobs may not help your career planning. You must weigh these two aspects.

Any summer job that requires hard work and a certain sense of responsibility can be included in your resume. If this job is related to your future career, your resume will naturally look more attractive.

One day, on the train to and from work, I sat in front of two middle school girls. One of the girls said to the other, "It doesn't cost my father a penny to go to college." At least I don't think so. "She explained that she worked as a waiter in a restaurant on weekends, summer holidays, Christmas and spring break. Her tip is considerable. She has saved ten thousand dollars. She plans to go to Rutgers University and live at home. If she continues to work in the university, she will probably graduate without borrowing money for graduate school.

When I started looking for a summer job in college, I found that besides restaurants, the only company was Fallin, a big department store in Boston, which opened a summer branch on Cape Cod, where my whole family spent their holidays. When I was a freshman, I went to a branch in Northampton, Massachusetts, which was open all year round. I applied to be a salesman on Saturday and the following summer vacation, and was hired on the spot. That summer, the manager of Northampton branch was in charge of the summer business of Cape Cod branch, and she asked me to be a clerk.

During my college years, I worked for Faring Company's branch in Cape Cod, including summer vacation, Saturday in the semester and sales, and earned the living expenses during the whole college period. In winter, Faring Company published an advertisement in our school newspaper. I wrote an advertisement for its creativity, and a painting professional made a painting according to my creativity. I knew when I was in senior three that I didn't want to work in retail, but it was an emergency measure for my future livelihood. From the conversation with the manager, I learned that if I can't find a job as a newspaper reporter, I can get a position in the training group of Faring Company as a springboard for writing.

Which occupation suits you?

1 When you are trying to plan your career, you should try various occupations, work in different environments and take on different tasks on your own initiative.

Occupations are basically divided into six categories. John L Holland, a professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, listed these six occupations, which I will describe in detail below. When I talk about the characteristics of people engaged in these occupations, please note that no one will have all these characteristics. I'm talking about the characteristics of tendentiousness, but they are all obvious tendentiousness.

The first category-real occupation

It is mainly a craft or technical occupation, which usually requires the use of tools or machines, and is often called a "blue-collar" position.

People who love real jobs are often physically strong, practical and strong, and often have a positive outlook on life. They usually have good physical coordination, but sometimes they have difficulty in expressing themselves or talking to others. They prefer to deal with objects rather than ideas or people. They like to invent by hand. Although their muscles are well coordinated, they often feel uncomfortable in social situations and lack language and interpersonal skills. They usually think that they are good at mechanical operation and sports, stable, unpretentious and persistent. They tend to pay more attention to concreteness than abstraction. People who pay attention to reality often look at the world with simple, clear and traditional eyes. Wealth is very important to them, and their leisure consumption is usually used for cars, boats, motorcycles or other mechanical devices.

People who pay attention to reality describe themselves as "conventional, frank, sincere, ordinary, persistent, practical, steady, frugal, materialistic and shy" in an interview.

Generally speaking, in the real career, there are neither complicated contradictions between individuals or institutions, nor difficult choices between conflicting life philosophies, and life is not complicated.

The second category-traditional occupation

These are usually office jobs, dealing with institutional affairs, files and daily schedules.

Traditional occupations include bookkeeper, statistician, bank teller, secretary, financial analyst, office director, computer operator, bank teller and accountant. Traditional occupations usually require some written work, but they usually write business letters and regular reports.

People who like to engage in traditional occupations describe themselves as "disciplined, responsible, efficient, obedient, organized, persistent, realistic and calm".

10 They like to live in order and follow the plan. They like to know what others expect of them and are willing to complete the tasks assigned to them.

The third category-research occupation

1 1 These are scientific research and laboratory work, from which people explore how the world is made.

The essence of 12 research work is scientific or laboratory research, which usually involves trying to solve difficult problems, from mysteries such as "how the universe came into being" to ordinary daily problems such as figuring out the composition of patients' blood samples in clinic.

13 researchers usually work in laboratories or hospitals, but they also work in many other places-studying topics such as traffic control and road material composition in highway departments; Conduct market research in advertising companies; Studying food nutrition in a food company; In the military sector, they study new weapons and new military strategies, and in the financial sector, they study economic strategies and currency circulation-in short, they work anywhere where problems are solved by systematic and scientific methods.

They describe themselves as "analytical, curious, independent and taciturn". They especially dislike repetitive activities and sales activities. They have a strong thirst for knowledge.

The fourth category-artistic occupation

15 These occupations are people's creative labor with language, music or art.

16 an artistic occupation usually includes language, music or other artistic forms of work. Room decoration, house design and portrait photography are also works of art.

17 The environment for artistic work includes art museums, art galleries, music departments, interior decoration companies, music shops, theatrical troupes, photography studios, radio and television studios and any other places where artistic skills are used and/or taught.

People who like to engage in artistic work describe themselves as "complex, unorganized, emotional, idealistic, imaginative, unrealistic, impulsive, independent, introspective, intuitive, unconventional and original". They like to work in a free environment, which enables them to express themselves in many different media, such as writing, music, painting and photography-in short, in any art form.

The fifth category-social occupation

19 These are the jobs of dealing with people-treating diseases, educating people and helping others.

Social occupation involves those jobs that deal with people, such as education, training, treatment, leadership, organization or inspiration. This kind of work includes explaining things to others, providing entertainment, making teaching plans, helping others solve difficulties, organizing and carrying out charitable activities, and eliminating differences between people.

People who like to engage in social work describe themselves as "willing to cooperate, friendly, generous, helpful, idealistic, responsible, sociable, decent and considerate". They like team work, especially small teams with the same problems.

The sixth category-leadership occupation

What these professionals do is to persuade others to take action, such as sales, politics or business.

Such occupations also include business management, giving speeches, running for public office, leading fund-raising activities and many other leadership jobs.

People engaged in leadership work also include public relations directors, stock and securities brokers, buyers, flight attendants, retailers, fashion dealers and industrial consultants.

People who like leadership describe themselves as "adventurous, ambitious, eloquent, domineering, energetic, impulsive, optimistic, confident, sociable and talkative".

Such people like competitive activities and are willing to work in groups and exert some influence on the behavior of groups. They are confident and usually consider themselves excellent leaders.

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