大学论文周记

大学论文周记

大学论文周记 篇1

2月2日-2月6日

第一个礼拜的实习，我可以简单的总结为几个字，那就是：多看，多问，多观察，多思考!赵经理主要让我了解一些我们公司的背景、产品、发展方向等。另外，尝试了跟同事多沟通，因从交谈中也能够学到不少东西。同事们都很热心，很照顾我，经常在我碰到困难的时候便主动伸出援助之手，他们耐心地教我如何使用打印机、传真机、复印机等一些常用的办公用品，如何接打电话。还从我是大学刚毕业的学生的角度来替我考虑，鼓励我做事要放手去做，不懂就问，没关系的，令我非常感动和欣慰。为了能够真正的学到知识，我很严格的要求自己去做好每一件事情，即使再简单的事情(整理文件资料)我都会认真考虑几遍，因此，虽然做得不算快，但能够保证让人满意。

2月9日-2月13日

第二个礼拜，其实还是个适应期。然而，我已经对公司的工作环境和时间安排很熟悉，上星期想打扫办公室，可不知道打扫工具在哪，挺尴尬的呵，知道后，我便习惯每天提早上班把前辈们桌下的垃圾处理掉，拖拖地，擦擦桌子等。几天之后，经理安排我开始接触做一些业务相关的活，主要是在一旁协助处理一下简单的事情，也就是打基础。可别小看了这些活，虽说简单，就是让我检查一些单据数据符合不符合，但都是疏忽不得的，每件事情都至关重要，因为它们都是环环相扣的。为了保证最后能够成功，前面的每一步基础都要打好。

同事通常也不催促，都把任务安排好，然后便交给我自己去处理，同时还不时提供一些帮助。等慢慢熟悉起来，做起事情也越来越顺手了。

2月16-2月20日

实习第三周了，也快半个月了，跟单位的各位前辈们，已经是从开始的胆怯不敢交流，到现在的熟识。对于我本来就学过单证实务方面的，一个星期的接触单据，使我对实际操作中的各种单据有了一定的了解，经理也开始让我帮一些前辈填单据，比如出口货物明细单、装箱单、商业发票等。我很紧张同事也很兴奋，因为很怕自己的疏忽会把数据填错了，但又觉得自己已经慢慢地在步入工作状态中，所以我为自己加油鼓气，同事们也很耐心，经理也让我仔细，努力点，多学点。其实我以后做业务的话，不太会这么详细的接触操作，但为了更能了解业务流程，所以经理才会如此安排，可以让我学的更透彻点，更好的做好业务方面的。

2月23-2月27日

实习第四周开始，已经逐渐进入状态。经理开始安排我去收发邮件，开始独立接触如何同过网络工具接业务，由于公司是专门有自己的网址和邮箱，又有阿里巴巴的商务平台，但经理为了让我们方便联系点，就让我们专门下载一些常用联系工具qq，msn。开始经理给了我很多一些公司的名片，让我从中选择一些与我们公司业务想匹配的公司，然后发信函，内容是着重介绍自己的公司，问些公司是否需要什么产品，但我遇到了很多问题，虽然在校学过函电类的知识，我这次论文也跟这个有关，但真正到接触的时候，却不知如何下笔，之后几天我们就在着重学习信函这些方面的。

3月2日-3月6日

实习第五周开始，已经是3月份了，感觉自己似乎已经来了很久似的，虽说没有真正接触一笔单子过，但每天还是过的很充实，总会有事做。发传真，接电话，收发邮件等。经理也偶尔会让我做些需要眼力和耐心的事情，就是把公司在用的产品包装盒上的英文的一些内容和客户所要求的包装盒上的做对比，划出不一样的，好让他们做修改。公司偶尔还是会开早会，汇报各人的工作进展情况，并且会议的最后有个决议事项，可以把自己在工作中遇到的问题提出来和上司、同事相互讨论，共同解决。虽然我还没有正式可以参加这种讨论，但我却是每天做在一旁聆听，我觉得这是个很好的很有创想的安排，一来可以把工作中遇到的问题，大家众志成城，共同进退解决问题，提高工作效率。二来也可以增进同事之间的交流和感情，这些都有利于公司日后的工作开展。

3月9日-3月13日

实习第六周，经理开始带我去工厂观察一些产品的情况，让我了解产品的整个加工过程等，以便让我以后跟客户更好的交流。我们公司主要是生产汽车液压件及一些塑料成品的，我也大概了解了一些产品完成所花费的时间和流程。工作还是进行的比较顺利，偶尔也会接到一些客户的电话，我有时也会做些简单的介绍，力图让对方更深的了解我们的产品，最重要的是让他们觉得我们的产品是非常出色的。虽然自认为口才并不好，但我能够把事情描述的比较清晰，如此也令客户满意。想说明下，打电话，礼貌的问好，还要让客户先挂电话。我发现自己对于言语方面需要努力，因为自己还是比较内敛的。

3月16日-3月20日

这周基本上是跟着经理或是一些前辈往外跑，主要是去学习他们是如何跟客户当面交流的。首次见到面谈生意的场面，感觉很紧张，虽说我是在旁看看，但还是深怕自己会犯什么错一样的，比如说吃饭了，都感觉吃不下的感觉哈。经理会让我跟客户做个自我介绍，当时我都有点吞吞吐吐了，不过客户还是个蛮和蔼的人。说实话当时也听不进什么了，有些产品他们在谈，我总觉得很耳熟，但具体的样，有点糊涂了。感觉他们只是在说笑，跟聊天一样的谈着，但内容还是紧跟着产品的，经理不愧是经理，很是有经验，这个客户的生意就促成了，我觉得这种生意上的交流是需要下功夫的，自己得好好努力。

3月23日-3月27日

实习第八周了，我在邮件方面开始有了一定的起色，开始有客户会回函询问价格，但我也不敢盲目地就发给客户，一般都会经过经理的审阅，

每天的回函量还是不多的，真正下订单的几乎没有，这可能跟我有关吧，我觉得肯定是我出了什么错了，但自己来发现不了自己的错误之处，后来一些前辈们告诉我，信函的话不需要那么复杂的，简单易懂，让客户能够一眼就能了解到信息就可以了。之后，我就开始用一些简单的语句来表达，邮件的回复量开始多了，我每天开始恢复这些邮件也感觉很忙似的。对于客户的回复我是一字也不漏掉，深怕把重要东西给漏掉了。我会把每天收集到的一些有意向购买我们产品的客户用文档归列好，详细的情况还是交给经理的。

3月30日-4月3日

实习第九周了，已经步入四月了，现在开始经理便需要我跟一些我自己找到的客户交谈，要能够很好的领会客户的意图，同时准确的向客户传达公司，以及公司产品相关的信息。这就要求我对公司本身的一些业务流程和产品特点有相当的熟悉。于是每天上班我都会比同事去的早一些，准备一些资料在身边已被随时查阅，当然如果这次信息能够放在脑子里那就更好了，于是我一有空就多看几遍，慢慢的熟记在胸。工作进行的还是比较顺利的，通常每天都要接受好多个电话，电话通常都较短，只需要简单的作一些相关的介绍即可，当然也有些客户需要更详细的信息，于是我需要对全局都做一番描述，而每次让客户满意的挂电话的时候，自己心里都会觉得很踏实，虽然已经讲的口干舌燥了，但一想，也许我刚才一番话就搞定了一笔生意，即使再辛苦也是值得的。

4月6日-4月10日

这一周，公司来了两个客户，一个是韩国的，一个是美国的，韩语的话是真的不知道怎么说，对于英语，虽说我是英语专业的，但如果让我跟老外交流还是很紧张的，觉得自己会不会讲，第一天来的韩国客户还是有带翻译的，主要是来询问我们公司一些塑料品的。第三天来的美国的客户，经理觉得我是英语专业的，便让我先跟老外做些交流，当时我真吓死了，我先跟他打了声招呼，并要求他做下，给他冲了杯咖啡，不过经历后来还是放过了我，让我做事去了，其实我倒松了口气哈。工作都是辛苦的，特别是周末前的一两天，电话特别的多，似乎大家都想在周末前做完一些事情，等到放假的时候可以安心的休息。

电话一多就容易乱，幸好有同事在旁边一同应付，更多的时候他们帮我，有时候我也帮他们。大家互相帮助也使问题容易解决得多了。

周末的时候，经理请我吃了一顿饭，对我关照有加，并表示对我这段时间的工作非常满意。

4月13日-4月17日

经过两个月多的锻炼，发现自己进步还挺快的，即使是之前从来没有接触过的，同时也对外贸业务这一行有了更深的认识，也有了浓厚的兴趣，越来越有干劲了。这一周仍然做些琐碎的事，发发邮件，通过电话跟客户沟通的事情。偶尔也出去跟经理见见生意面谈的场面。

但经理试着让我对客户介绍我们公司的一些产品。

由于自己向来比较内敛的缘故，首次与客户面谈显得比较紧张，也不大顺利，不过有了一次经历之后，进步了不少，再加上经理的鼓励，自己尝试大胆的去应付，慢慢的好了许多。不再会在陌生的场合怯场。今天下来，面对经验比我丰富的阅历比我深的多的多的客户，也能够通过简练清晰的表达让对方熟悉我们的产品，让他们对我们的产品产生更浓厚的兴趣。

4月20-4月24日

在壹达已经是将近快三个月的时光了，这周除了跟以往的一样，做些琐碎的事情，更多的是以现场跟班生产实习为主，更多的了解公司的产品，生产实习是学习的一项重要环节，通过此次实习，我学到了很多课本上学不到的知识，使我更深刻地了解了外贸业务流程等知识。这周，我感到满足和充实感，因为老板开始让我真正的接触业务了，美国一位客户通过邮箱向我询问了产品，并向我索要样品。在这过程中，我们起初是用邮箱一问一答，后来对方提出用msn联系，显然这样方便多了，但在询问中我也遇到了点问题，因为她问我的产品，其实我也不是很清楚，因为公司的一些塑料制品很多是用自己的编号的，跟她所提供的型号，编号什么的都对不上，但我对产品熟练度又不够，所以都会询问下老板是否有此类产品。但最后，我成功的完成了个开头，按对方要求寄样品(样品运费是有她出)，她也希望与我方有进一步的业务来往。虽说不知结果会是怎么样，但还是个好的开头。

4月27日-4月30日

这周我主要是负责美国那客户的单子，因为是第一笔，所以我个方面做的小心，也很紧张，我跟经理也提了点小意见，就是把一些塑料制品的样品图片重新弄些型号，把它放到网站上，这样可能客户就可以清楚地去对照，也无需把时间

浪费在询问产品是否有的问题上，经理也同意了我的想法。但最后对于这个美国客户，我还是失败告终，因为大家在付款方式上达不成一致，我们公司一般还是tt方式的，然而他希望我方用d/a的方式，经理觉得不易冒风险，而且客户最后也是因为在这个问题上就不了了而之了。

人往往都是这样，没有经历过的话，永远都不知道事情到底是怎么一个样子，是真的那么难，还是并非如此，所以，不管怎么样，即使是自己完全陌生的事情，只要有机会，都一定要去尝试，努力去做好。因为没有经验，那么就需要做更多的准备工作。另外就是不要害怕失败，只要用心去做就可以了。等到熟练了，那么成功将是水到渠成的事情。

5月4日-5月8日

这一周，还是向往常一样进行着，但我又尝试了第一次，比如我的第一次跟客户面谈，虽然我做得不够好，或者可以说失败了，但通过这次的尝试，却令我获益匪浅，对我之后的几次任务的成功都起到了极大的推动作用。自己也通过不断的经历和尝试检验了自身的水平和适应能力。

只有通过不断的努力，不断的尝试，不断的积累经验，才能够发现自己的不足，然后在弥补不足的时候，我们便实实在在的提高了自己。所以，不管怎样，努力去做吧，告诉自己，只要用心，就能做得更好!

我明白了做业务真的是不易的一件工作，尤其对于我们女孩子，但我还是不会放弃，毕竟觉得自己受益匪浅。

5月11日-5月15日

在赵经理的关心和众同事的帮助下，通过这一段时间的集中学习，我对外贸的相理论知识和外贸实务中的操作流程及技巧也有部分掌握，工作中贸易的操作大多是通过电话、传真、即时聊天软件、邮件等方式商定交易进行的，但自己并没有从客户开发到完成交货结汇、以至备案归档完成的操作实践过，因此在操作过程中不免还会遇到各种具体的问题，通过实际的操作掌握自己这一月来所学到各类知识，也是积累经验、进一步掌握外贸流程和实务的必要措施，需要这样一个从实践中获得新知的过程。虽然现在还是在开始阶段，每天真正能订单的也不多，但自己却是很充实，因为遇到的问题越多，就会学到越多的解决方法。我相信，今后无论遇到什么，只要看一眼这块烙印，我就会勇往直前，决不畏缩。

5月18日-5月22日

实习已经将近结束了，平时在寝室晃晃荡荡没事干，觉得日子过得好慢好无聊。而在公司里，就完全不一样了，每天紧张的工作状态，完全没有时间考虑其它事情。于是不知不觉的，就发现原来我短暂的实习时光就快要过去了。其实如果可以的话，真想多停留，这个岗位，这次的经历却是实实在在的，就感觉自己每天都在进步，每天都能够接触新的事物，一点一点的吸收进去。初踏社会便有了很深的感受，正应了那句话：社会是一所最好的大学。果然没错。

学到的东西可不少，自己还是需要多多努力。

大学生周记 篇2

实习主要项目和内容：

单位日常办公，办公软件的使用，上网查找资料，进行Word，Excel的制作与存档，对客户进行联系与洽谈;

主要收获与体会：

这周我感觉自己应该基本上适应了这里的办公环境，应该很顺手的完成领导分配的任务，并且想的一直不会违反单位的作息制度。但感觉和实际操作是两个不同的概念。我还是在工作中不断泄露出了自己的毛病。比如，时间观念不是很强，做事有点粗心大意等。以前在学校上课时偶尔会迟到，但是每次都不会那么重视，觉得一两次无所谓。但是就是因为无所谓让我把以前养成的坏习惯带到了现在的工作单位。从这使我感觉到无论做什么都要严格要求自己，认真对待，提高警惕，把时间放在第一位。

记事：

我慢慢适应了哪里的环境，曾经的一些担心都完全不存在了，可遇到新问题时，感觉自己什么都不会做，感觉自己学的都是理论，真正用起来谈何容易。于是我遇到不懂的地方就问那些老干部，一开始还觉得不好意思呢，后来问了一次两次之后就不觉得了，他们也很耐心的教我。文秘工作的现实需要我们不仅仅的收集，整理资料，更要能干事，并能干成事。

大学生周记 篇3

第一周

通过朋友的介绍，我来到了广州诚伯信息有限公司进行了面试，通过金融专业大学生实习周记第一轮面试之后，面试官告诉我于金融专业大学生实习周记第二天早上到公司上午进行参观，下午再进行金融专业大学生实习周记第二轮的面试。

金融专业大学生实习周记第二天早上到达广州诚伯信息有限公司接待处后，由于还没有正式录取的原因需要等负责人带领我们参观。与我一同参观的人大约有三十几人。公司的负责人先用 PPT给我们介绍了一下公司的历史背景和员工待遇等问题 。随后带领我们参观了公司的工作现常下午我们迎来了金融专业大学生实习周记第二轮面试，我与另外三个人同时面试，面试官很和善，通过交流沟通的方式面试我们，整个面试的氛围比较轻松。面试完之后我们在接待室等待面试结果，在等待面试结果的过程中，我们都紧张的没有说话。经过漫长的等待之后，面试官来到我们的面前宣布面试的结果，我和另外的一些人通过了面试。面试官告诉我们，通过面试后我们会进行一次分班，然后经过一段比较长的培训期，培训期过后才会正式的入职。然后告知我们回去后等待培训的通知。

本周通过面试的面试之后，我的开始正式走上工作岗位。

第二周

通过上周紧张的面试之后，这周我们开始进入正式的培训期了。

我被分到了国语班。班级的负责人有一个很令人怀念的称谓“班长”。因为话务员是轮班制的，所以称每个班的负责人为班长。班长给我的金融专业大学生实习周记第一映像就是“胖”！。首先我们的班长先给我们发了一大批的资料，告知我们资料的内容是要进行考核的，考核不过要罚抄。然后班长才进行自我介绍，听了他的自我介绍之后，我们全体班员都震惊了，这个挺着大啤酒肚的班长以前是一个军人，这是我们才看到他的胸牌上挂着一张照片，一个穿着绿色军装瘦子，我们的金融专业大学生实习周记第一反应就是不可能，照片上的人跟他现在的样子真的是有天与地的差别。除了班长之外我们还有一个导师，导师是个由一位师姐担任的，负责给我们做培训，为人比较和蔼。经过交谈之后我们才了解到她的年龄比我们还小，这一度让我们感慨不已。培训的过程中我们简单的了解了中国移动的三大品牌，以及一些话务员需要掌握的礼仪规范等。

通过这周的学习，我更加了解到了中国移动的业务。同时加深了自己对业务的了解，充实了自己。

第三周

经过上周的培训，我基本了解到了培训的大体培训流程以及在培训过程中需要进行的考核和需要掌握的基本操作。

师姐的细心教导，让我们从师姐的身上感受到中国移动员工无微不至的人文关怀，同时也感受到中国移动员工“全心全意服务顾客”的服务精神，师姐在培训过程中一直向我们强调：我们的`工作目标就是热情的服务客户，追求客户满意。从参加培训的金融专业大学生实习周记第一天开始，我们就培训了作为一名专业的10086话务员服务所需要了解的流程规范，在培训期间我感受到中国移动对员工的要求，同时也感受到公司对员工的关怀，金融专业大学生实习周记第一次亲身感受到中国移动“沟通从心开始”的企业精神。

这周的培训主要是认识公司的相关规章制度;还有以后工作中需要使用的两个平台：一个是移动公司的boss系统，另一个是校讯通的139平台系统。从公司的各项规章制度中可以了解到，这是一家职责分工明确，奖罚分明的公司，这也加大了我要在这家公司待下去的想法。两个系统中相对较复杂的是移动的boss系统，如若处理不当会引起客户的投诉，承担相对的责任。

实习的金融专业大学生实习周记第三周，在培训中度过。

大学生周记 篇4

第一周

进入航星自动化设备有限公司实习已经将近一个多星期了,也逐渐的适应了这里的工作环境。这是一间以生产染色机电脑为主的公司，染色机电脑，顾名思义，是染织厂在为布料染色采用的一种动化控制设备，通常对布料进行加热，冷却，保温等。

这一个星期所作的工作主要有安装产品和焊接元器件。虽然所接触到的工作难度并不大，但是其中包含的技巧却非常多，各种需要注意的事项也很多。就拿焊接元器件来说，元器件的体积有大有小，而其中需要注意的地方是，要先焊接小的元器件，然后再去焊接大的元器件。焊点要做到光滑，不能虚焊，焊点的标准是要成圆锥形状，对于晶体二极管还要注意不能够焊接得太久，否则容易把二极管烧坏。

除了上述的这些，我还学习了数字万用表的使用，以及一些贴片式电阻的读数。例如一个贴片电阻的读数为1002，这是电阻上面的标值，而其实际的阻值却应该为10k,前三位为有效数字，最后一位为十的幂数。对于一些瓷介电容，也有了一些认识，如一只瓷介电容上面标有104，其电容容量为：100000pf,即0.1uf。

经过一个多星期的实习,让我感觉到了知识的重要性,我要不断的学习,来提高自己的专业水平。

第二周

这是工作的第二个星期了，与前一个星期相比，我的思想有了一些转变。因为看着身边工作的同事都是每天上班，然后下班，回到宿舍里看电视，玩玩游戏，就度过了一天。

这样的生活让我感到有些透不过气来，这不是我想要的生活，我不能和他们一样，我要努力的学习。为了将来，我绝不能放弃学习。

这一周认识了不少新的元器件，如：8位三态输出触发器74ls573，8双向3态缓冲电路74ls245，74ls245主要用在数据的双向缓冲，常见于51的数据电路，早期的电路中，扩展了很多的8255/8155/8251等芯片的时候，担心8031的数据驱动能力不足，所以就使用了一片74ls245作为数据缓冲电路，增强其驱动能力。

这一周所做的事情和上一周差不多，只不过做的工作多了就比上一周熟练多了。每天下班回来后我都会看书学习，对于我这种电子行业，必须要有很夯实的基础。模拟电子技术，数字电子技术，电机拖动与控制，单片机教程等，都是我要学习再加强的科目。

我也发觉到在学校里学到的东西拿到工作上，是根本不够用的，看来还要加强专业知识的学习才行。

第三周

时间很快就过了三个星期了，在这个星期里，我已经接触到了对产品的检测，已经能够自己独立的分析一些简单的电路原理。

大学生周记 篇5

周记1

时间飞逝，不知不觉来公司实习已经一周了，第一天来报到我是依公司人事主任的安排找到营销部的副总，然后就按计划把我分到了营销部进行实习，并且指定了带我的业务员。因为刚走出校门又只是实习生，所以做任何事我都小心翼翼，生怕出现任何的差错会给上级留下不好的印象。

师父就要我做在他位置边上跟他学习业务，我也是带着笔记边记边学的。第一天过得很快，回家时师傅提醒我早上要提前十五分钟开晨会，第二天我就准时的到了，先是主管进行开会然后是做仪态训练和喊些口号。刚开始还真不习惯，总觉得有点别扭，后来才知道这样是为了提醒业务员每天都要记住对客户使用的文明用语。这样才可以让我们业务员能够够容易地与顾客谈上话，才会使我们更容易把产品卖出去。

不过第一次上班的感觉还是挺新鲜的，特别是穿着正装去上班，感觉自己也还是挺像个回事的。

周记2

这十来天，公司负责人并没有具体安排事务，只是让我熟悉公司经营业务和经营的产品，算是适应期。主要了解一些公司的背景、产品、发展方向等。主要工作是负责销售公司自己的品牌。几天之后开始在同事的帮带下，做一些业务相关的活，主要是在一旁协助处理一下简单的事情。也就是打基础。做生意，搞销售，靠的就是一张嘴，口才好、把握分寸、恰当的讲，就容易把顾客的心抓住，从而就可能达成交易。这层道理我是明白，但真正到了自己去面对时，却发现由于性格内向，再加上缺乏锻炼，想要抓住顾客的心，还真有难度。

两个星期过去了，每当有顾客来时或遇到同事，我还是微笑着和他们打招呼并招待他们，因为从前几次的实习后，我就养成了一个习惯，对人待物都讲究礼仪，见到顾客，不管交易能否达成，都不能给人以缺乏礼数的感觉，只要是踏进店的，我都会真诚的接待问候，让他们一进来就体验到被重视的感觉，我觉得，经常有一些细节的东西容易被我们忽略，比如轻轻的一声问候，但它却表现了对同事对朋友的关怀，也让他人感觉到被重视与被关心，更是一种基本素质的体现。更何况出校前老师一再强调要以礼待人，不要给学校抹黑。

周记3

经过两个礼拜的锻炼，发现自己进步还挺快的，即使是之前从来没有接触过这个岗位，同时也对组织销售这一行有了更深的认识，这一周仍然做通过语音跟客户沟通的事情。偶尔也出去跟客户或合作伙伴面谈。由于自己向来比较内敛的缘故，与客户面谈显得比较紧张，也不大顺利，不过有了数十次经历之后，进步了不少，再加上合作伙伴的鼓励与帮助，自己尝试大胆的去应付，慢慢的好了许多。不再会在陌生的场合怯场。

今天下来，面对经验比我丰富的阅历比我深的多的多的客户或合作伙伴，也能够通过简练清晰的表达让对方熟悉我们的产品，让他们对我们的产品产生更浓厚的兴趣。

人往往都是这样，没有经历过的话，永远都不知道事情到底是怎么一个样子，是真的那么难，还是并非如此，所以，不管怎么样，即使是自己完全陌生的事情，只要有机会，都一定要去尝试，努力去做好。因为没有经验，那么就需要做更多的准备工作。另外就是不要害怕失败，只要用心去做就可以了。等到熟练了，那么成功将是水到渠成的事情。比如我的第一次跟客户或合作伙伴面谈，虽然我做得不够好，或者可以说失败了，但通过这次的尝试，却令我获益匪浅，对我之后的几次任务的成功都起到了极大的推动作用。自己也通过不断的经历和尝试检验了自身的水平和适应能力。

大学英语周记 篇2

Passage 1 The Road to Happiness There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e.health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy.In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live.In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong.We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are.Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable.If you have a cat, it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles.Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis on instinct.In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten.People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it.A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections.When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.Passage 2 Love Is Difficult It is good to love, but love is difficult.For one human being to love another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us — the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.But learning time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, and is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves.Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person;it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the sake of another person;it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances.Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to them.Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them, who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves;it is the ultimate, it is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.Passage 3 Business of Insurance Companies Insurance companies do two types of business.One is general insurance against various forms of risk, and the other is long-term insurance which is mainly life insurance.General insurers will agree to pay a person or company a sum of money in the event of something happening or not happening.It‟s a big business today.If the project succeeds, shareholders in your company will expect to be paid a dividend.If you ask an insurer to underwrite your project, then he will require a payment in advance, a premium.If the project succeeds, he keeps the premium, but you don‟t pay him anything else.Paying a premium to an insurer or underwriter is often cheaper than paying a dividend to shareholders.If fewer dividends are paid to shareholders, then more money can be kept as retention to finance the company‟s next project.Another type of insurance business is the life insurance.It differs basically from general insurance in that it is based not on risk but on certainty — the certainty that each of us will one day die.Life insurance is the basis of pension funds which provide for retirement and guard against other contingencies such as ill-health, but is best seen by the financial economist as a means of collecting many small savings to put together into large investments, in short, as a form of intermediation.Passage 4 Seasonal Affective Disorder Some people feel sad or depressed during the winter months in northern areas of the world.They may have trouble eating or sleeping.They suffer from a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S-A-D.Victims of S-A-D suffer its effects during the short, dark days of winter.The problems are most severe in the months when there are fewer hours of daylight.When spring arrives, these signs disappear and S-A-D victims feel well again.The National Mental Health Association reports that S-A-D can affect anyone.The group says young people and women are at the highest risk for the disorder.It says that an estimated 25 percent of the American population suffers from some form of S-A-D.About 5 percent suffer from a severe form of the disorder.Many people in other parts of the world also have the condition.The idea of health problems linked to a lack of light is not new.Scientists have discussed the issue since the beginning of medicine.More than two-thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates noted that the seasons affect human emotions.Today, experts do not fully understand S-A-D, and yet they agree that it is a very real disorder.To treat the disorder, victims of S-A-D do not need to wait until spring.Experts know that placing affected individuals in bright light each day eases the condition.There are other things people can do to ease the problem.They can increase the sunlight in their homes and workplaces and spend more time outdoors in the fresh air during the day.One study found that walking for an hour in winter sunlight was as effective as spending two-and-one-half hours under bright light indoors.Passage 5 Success Is a Choice All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday.If we expect that life won‟t be perfect, we‟ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit.But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.Whether it‟s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic events in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time.Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it‟s lying in wait just around the corner.To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self delusion.But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left them lying in the dust.Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God.Abraham Lincoln overcame all difficulties during the Civil War to become our arguable greatest president ever.Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.Franklin Roosevelt had polio.There are endless examples.These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.Passage 6 Is Television a Blessing or a Curse? It is universally accepted that television is playing an important part in people‟s lives.But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.Television keeps one better informed about current affairs, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers a great variety of programs which are both instructive and stimulating.The most distant countries, the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into one‟s room or household.However, some people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing.They argue that it has brought about many serious problems.The major one is its effects on young people.Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened.Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their view-points towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.To sum up, television has both advantages and disadvantages.What ever effects it has, one point is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad.It is the use to which it is put that determines its value to society.Passage 7 Few US Workers Who Could Telecommute Do So One-quarter of the U.S.work force could be doing their jobs from home if all those able to telecommute chose to do so, and all those people working from home could translate into annual gasoline savings of $3.9 billion, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey.However, many still select to work at the office.The study found that 2 percent of U.S.workers telecommute full-time and another 9 percent do so part-time.But another 14 percent of workers have the option of telecommuting, or have jobs conductive to the practice but choose not to.“The numbers suggest that many people would rather work at the office even if their job allowed telecommuting,” said Professor P.K.Kannan, of the Robert H.Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.“That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and you would save a lot of gas, that‟s not going to happen.An hypothesis could be that people still need the „face time‟ with their bosses.Another thing is people miss the social interaction, just being at home.” And with a median one-way commute of 10 miles and a median one-way commute time of 20 minutes, the daily trip for many workers is not that bad, he added.Of those who can already telecommute, most do so only one, two or three days per week, the study found.Passage 8 The Wholeness of Life There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words you have gotten right, you are disqualified if you make one mistake.Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That, I believe, is what God asks of us — not “Be perfect”, but “Be whole”.If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another‟s happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.Passage 9 Workplace Friendships A study into workplace relationships has found having a close friend at work can be a major distraction.Respondents cited excessive chatting, having too much fun and an inability to separate work from play as contributing to a lack of focus.“When faced with a work-related problem many people will prioritize their friendship over their responsibilities to their organization, which businesses may find concerning,” said psychologist and Auckland University of Technology lecturer, Dr.Rachel Morrison.“Workplace friendships are like a double-edged sword.The benefits of a friendly workplace can be really positive, but organizations should be aware of the potential difficulties and how to manage friendships at work.”

According to the study, many people were concerned about going “softer” with their friends and being expected to treat them with special privileges.“People naturally want to make their friends feel special, but this conflicts with organizational practices or norms that are set up around fairness and equality.Difficulty in managing these expectations can create tension in the relationship.”

Respondents also experienced a great deal of anxiety about speaking to close friends about substandard work.A basic rule of friendship is being non-judgmental and accepting your friends weaknesses, but giving critical performance feedback conflicts with this.“We also found issues related to confidentiality practices, which could mean friends have to refrain from sharing information.This can be really challenging for close friendships that have norms of openness and disclosure,” Dr.Morrison said.Dr.Morrison said organizations should try to provide friendly environments and encourage workplace friendships, but have policies in place to manage potential difficulties.Passage 10 Love Your Life However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it or call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.Love your life, poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.The setting sun is reflected from the window of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man‟s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.The town‟s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgivings.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.Turn to the old, turn to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Passage 11 Man Is Here for the Sake of Other Men Strange is our situation here upon earth.Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, and yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men — above all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.To ponder interminably over the reason for one‟s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly.And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment.The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me;a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Passage 12 The Ways to Duck out of Work Want to watch the World Cup in peace without the boss over your shoulder? Simple, con him.A British Internet site offered fans an ingenious range of ways to duck out of work so they can watch games in comfort.The timings of the games, in the early morning or at midday, have posed a dilemma to millions of soccer-mad Britons used to watching games in the evenings or at weekends and desperate to follow England and Ireland‟s World Cup progress live.The British government has already urged employers to bow to the inevitable and take a flexible attitude to working hours or set up TV screens.“The last thing we want is the entire workforce taking an announced sickie on the day of a big match,” Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said.But British sports company Umbro was urging fans to take the matter into their own hands.Its Web site was offering a convincing-looking false sick note signed by a fictitious doctor, F.Albright, to be printed off and taken to work in advance.Alternatively, its “Top Ten Bunk Off Ideas” included such improbable excuses as: “I will be late for work today because I have to pick my uncle up from the train station.He has two bags but only one arm.” For another game, a fan might claim: “My dog ate my car keys.We‟re going to hitchhike to the vet.”

Passage 13(91)The First Calendar Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times.They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates.What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word.Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 B.C.and ended about 10,000 B.C.By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon.It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar.It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.Passage 14 How to Ask for a Raise One of the most intimidating things to do in the business world is to ask for a raise at your current job.Sometimes, the boss just does not pay you enough money.So what do you do about it? There is a way to request a raise, but you had better be careful when doing that.The best way to make more money within a company is to be in the direct flow of the cash.Companies will want to keep you around if you have some leverage.Being a direct cause of their profits is a great way to gain some leverage.One mistake that people always seem to make is that they are never sure exactly how much money to ask for.If you are going to ask for a raise, then you should have some figure in mind of how much more you want.If you are successful in meeting with your boss and making your case, then it will look awful if you sit there with a blank stare as he asks you how much you want.Consider a realistic percentage, but be willing to negotiate in discuss.Do some research and figure out exactly how much folks make in your profession that have had similar experience and success.Do not ask for a raise based solely upon your personal needs.Instead, concentrate solely on your achievements, merits, and worth concerning the company.By doing this, you will create a professional environment in which you will establish some leverage.Passage 15 Police and Communities Few institutions are more important to an urban community than its police, yet there are few subjects historians know so little about.Most of the early academic interests developed among political scientists and sociologists, who usually examined their own contemporary problems with only a nod toward the past.Even the public seemed concerned only during crime waves, periods of blatant corruption, or after a particularly grisly episode.Party regulars and reformers generally viewed the institution from a political perspective;newspapers and magazines — the nineteenth century‟s media — emphasized the vivid and spectacular.Yet urban society has always vested a wide, indeed awesome, responsibility in its police.Not only were they to maintain order, prevent crime, and protect life and property, but historically they were also to fight fires, suppress vice, assist in health services, supervise elections, direct traffic, inspect buildings, and locate truants and runaways.In addition, it was assumed that the police were the special guardians of the citizens‟liberties and the community‟s tranquility.Of course, the performance never matched expectations.The record contains some success, but mostly failure;some effective leadership, but largely official incompetence and betrayal.The notion of a professional police force in America is a creation of the twentieth century;not until our own time have cities begun to take the steps necessary to produce modern departments.Passage 16 New York May Never Win Its War on Rats Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants — humans.The video broadcast on television a week ago showed rats running wild at a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant just one day after the outlet had passed a city Health Department inspection.It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc.and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.The owner of the KFC/Taco Bell franchise, ADF Companies, has closed 10 of its restaurants until they pass inspections, and the city closed three other restaurants because of unsanitary conditions or mice, the Health Department said.Yum Brands on Friday hired an urban pest control expert to review standards at its New York City restaurants.The Health Department warned that greater threats to public health include restaurant employees who fail to wash their hands or food stored at improper temperatures.One epidemiologist agreed.Still, the incident reinforces New York‟s reputation of having a more severe rat problem than other big cities.New York‟s crowded quarters force restaurants to store trash indoors until it can be collected, providing rats with an indoor food source.In addition, New York‟s real estate boom means construction is pervasive, scattering rats to a wider geographic area.Passage 17 Beauty Industry With a bit of “physical preparation” — artificial breast implants, a nose job and a little trimming of fat from the hips — you too can aspire to be Miss World.So says Venezuela‟s latest candidate for the world beauty contest.Andreina Prieto admitted that were it not for the help of cosmetic surgery, she probably would not have made the line-up.The raven-haired 19-year-old was chosen from among 40 other contestants to represent the South American country at the Miss World competition in South Africa.Prieto, wearing a blue bikini, told reporters that prior to entering the competition, she had three separate operations: one to improve the shape of her nose, a liposuction to remove fat from her hips and breast implants.“If it wasn‟t for that, I probably wouldn‟t be here,” she said.She displayed a brilliant smile, but did not say if that too was the result of surgery.Oil-rich Venezuela takes the beauty industry very seriously and has gained a reputation as a “factory” of international beauty contest winners.Venezuelan women have won five Miss World titles and four Miss Universe crowns.A private company, the Miss Venezuela Organization, specializes in preparing candidates for the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, and spends around $72,000 on each contender, in clothes, diets and, of course, cosmetic surgery.Passage 18 Population Growth The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant.According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C., followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if , technology begins to yield fewer innovations.Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way — contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth — population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.Passage 19 Food and Health The food we eat seems to have a profound impact on our health.Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon.Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer.Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.The additives which we eat are not all so direct.Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market.Although the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.Passage 20 UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws The UK is currently using copyright laws that are more than 300 years old.Ministers in the United Kingdom are being urged to modify copyright laws to allow users to be able to legally rip CDs and DVDs for personal use.The Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR)wants users to have a “private right to copy” digital content.The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and /or PCs.Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.“My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn‟t matter,” Conservative MP John Whittingdale said.Passage 21 A Growing Number of American Men Get Alimony Across the country, a growing number of divorced men are getting alimony from their former wives.While far more women receive alimony than men, divorce lawyers estimate that 5% to 10% of their male clients now get such payments, up from only 3% five years ago.Men seeking financial support from the rich and famous ex-wives have made headlines in recent years.But the ranks of ex-husbands getting alimony from their former spouses now are as likely to include the guy around the corner who gets a monthly check from an ex-wife whose bank account is fatter than his.“Women are getting better, higher-paying jobs at the same time that men‟s wages are decreasing,” says Kathryn Rettig, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, explaining why the number of men receiving alimony is increasing.She adds，“If women want equality under the law, they have to take the responsibility for supporting dependent spouses.”

Like women, men are being awarded alimony for a few years as compensation for putting their wives through college or graduate school or for following transferred spouses around the country.And, like women, men are persuading judges to award them alimony indefinitely if they are sick or disabled or have stayed home to raise children.In out-of-court settlements, high-income women are even agreeing to pay alimony to their ex-husbands instead of giving them some property because alimony is tax-deductible.Passage 22(92)Rainbow I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky.It is so beautiful!There is a fairy tale saying whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold.Of course, it is not true.Neither could you find the pot of the gold, nor could you ever find the rainbow‟s end.No matter how far you run, it always seems at a great distance.A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower.It is not solid, for it is only the effect of light shining on raindrops.The light from the sun shines on the rain as it falls to the earth.The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.It is called a rainbow because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow.That is also why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky.We see a rainbow only during showers or storms, only when there is still rain in the air and the sun still shines brightly through the clouds.Every rainbow has many colors which are arranged in the same order.The first or the top color is always red, next comes orange, then yellow and green, and last of all the blue and deep blue or violet.A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.Passage 23 Gratuitous Gratuities Everybody loathes it, but everybody does it.A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans hate the practice.It seems so arbitrary, after all.In America alone, tipping is now a $ 16 billion-a-year industry.Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service.Tips should not exist.So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.The better the service, the bigger the tip.Such explanations no doubt explain the purported origin of tipping.In the 16th century, boxes in English taverns carried the phrase “To Insure Promptitude”(later just “TIP”).But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants.The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.Customers who rated a meal as “excellent” still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price.Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics.In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service.In Europe, tipping is less common.In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all.How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology.According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper‟s co-author, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more.Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers.Passage 24 Football Team‟s Only Game Was Drugs

They looked like a real football team — with snarling coach included.But the 10 men arrested at the weekend in Spain‟s southern province of Cadiz were not going to play a match, despite their yellow and blue kit.They were drug traffickers who used their footballs, knapsacks and club strips, emblazoned with the team name of a local town, Guillen Moreno CF, as a ruse to fool border police as they passed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, to Algeciras, on the southern Spanish mainland, a police spokesman in Cadiz said.The fake team would usually cross the Straits of Gibraltar into the province of Cadiz on Saturday afternoons with the hash tucked beneath their jerseys and stage a drama to enhance their credibility before border agents.The supposed manager, 49, would carry a roster in his hand and continuously bark at the young men “Everybody pay attention, everybody stay right here!” and “Come on, follow me!”.The players would cross back to Ceuta on Sundays after the fictional match and actual drug sales in Spain.Police do not know how long the fake season lasted before a tip spurred an investigation.The game ended when officers stopped their cars in Cadiz and found a total of 16kg of hash hidden beneath the men‟s strips in little pellets taped to their bodies.Passage 25(93)Sleep Sleep is a part of a person‟s daily activity cycle.There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles.If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, and your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes.This is called stage 1 sleep.For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep.The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all.Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm.This is stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly.The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves.Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids.This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep.It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep — only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.Passage 26 Face and Fortune Recently, at the instigation of my publisher, I had some photographs taken.I do not enjoy the process of being photographed.However, after I compared the new photograph with one taken twenty-five years ago, my feminine vanity suffered.My first instinct was to have the prints “touched up”.As I thoughtfully considered the photographs, I knew that a still more important principle was involved.A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman‟s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.In that length of time she has become intimately acquainted with pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, life and death.She has struggled and survived, failed and succeeded.She has lost and regained faith.And, as a result, she would be wiser, gentler, more patient and more tolerant than she was when she was young.Her sense of humor should have mellowed, her outlook should have widened, and her sympathies should have deepened.And all this should show.If she tries to erase the imprint of age, she runs the risk of destroying, at the same time, the imprint of experience and character.I know I am more experienced than I was a quarter century ago and I hope I have more character.I released the pictures as they were.Passage 27(94)Readers Reveal Stuff of Dreams Psychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades.People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense.The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares.But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.According to Mark Blagrove of the University of Wales, the study is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams.Dr.Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming — and that women could recall more dreams than men.Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.About 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading.Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don‟t.Passage 28 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known, as the king of steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.“He who dies rich, dies disgraced, ” he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history.He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie‟s generosity.His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Passage 29 Princess Diana What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess.To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction.Diana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way.She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability.Diana‟s eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.Please don‟t hurt me, they seemed to say.She often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary.Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world.This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset.Passage 30 A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something.When questioned about his odd behavior, he would reply, “I am searching for an honest man.”

大学生周记 篇3

“办公室唯一一位文员”

不知不觉到工业博览城成为一名文员差不多2个月，这段时间说短不短，说长不长。因为工作起来总会忘时间，这或许是一种全神贯注的表现吧!我来到的是分公司，而分公司的规模并不大，只有我一个文员。所以办公室的日常管理，包括开销，整理等都是我一个人一手包办的。说是一个文员，但兼任的还是分部老总的助理。开始的一个星期，我对于这家公司的文化有一个大致的解，同时也适应我的工作。这份工作其实很考验一个毅力及忍受程度的。因为分公司这里的同事大多数时间都是要外出去工作的，一周下来，我见到的只是一两个回来拿个快递的同事。而这一周开始两天都在熟悉公司的资料，完成上一任文员留下来要办的事(补一点公司的日常用品)。管理公司在阿里巴巴上的网页，及时刷新。之前没有真正接触过复印机、打印机与传真机，现在自己利用废纸自己去学会使用。而且我发现有时替公司收快递需要回执单，刚开始的时候不知道是什么，忙得一团乱，后来打电话一问才知道所谓的回执单是老总自己忘带过来(那天只有我一个在办公室)。总而言之，虽然是仅有一周的时间，但是却让我学到很多在学校没学到的知识，懂得去处理一些日常的办公事务。

20xx-3-2 星期三

“学会婉拒”

我发现一件事，就是：很多电话打来公司做推销的。我记得上一任文员跟我说，要懂得去筛选哪些电话才是真正对公司有用的，因为很多推销电话打来，而那些推销电话一般不用管。

这几天，我接过几次的推销电话。他们有的问题真的很懂得转弯，因为他们不直接向你推销东西，有的直接问老总的联系方式，有的打听业务部的事等，说到最后才露出马脚，原来是做推销的。之前问过老总，老总也说对于现阶段，所有的推销电话都可以婉拒，因为公司的工程还在研究阶段，等到落实实施，自动会去联络相应的供应商。因此，当我再接到推销电话时，我跟对方说：你先把资料发到公司的邮箱，上头看过资料后，如果他们有意愿合作的，到时会联系您。有时也会接到一些广告的电话，这些人都来问老总的手机号。有一次，我接到电话时，老总正好站在我身边。那个电话是来告之展览会，邀请我们公司去参加。我知道我在这次的接电话处理得不好，因为电话里的人说一句，我就请问老总一次。因为电话里的人说我们公司上一年参加过，今年再次邀请。而当我咨询老总时，老总说没有那一回事，并告诉我以后要自己判断好，不要随便就相信电话里的信息，学会去拒绝。

因此，在这几天，我发现学会婉拒，可以不让无聊电话妨碍自己的办公时间。

20xx-3-5 星期六

“接待访客”

“接待”一词在书本上看很多，特别是上有关秘书知识的课程的时候。想不到这几天来我真正接触到。很清楚的记得那天我在整理公司网站上的资料，老总跟我说他有点私事出去一下，待会可能胡总来，要我记得好好招呼。十分钟后，我听到敲门声，我带着微笑站起来问到访者：“请问您找谁?”他说：“我约你们的刘总。”我说：“原来是胡总，刘总刚刚出去办点事。这边请，我去倒杯茶给您。”我带胡总到接待室并倒杯茶给他，这时，刘总刚好回来，而我告之刘总：胡总在接待室等您。而刘总也走进接待室去，我随后跟进帮刘总也倒一杯茶后，轻轻地关上门让他们讨论公事。总体上来说，觉得自己做得不错。因为之前有一个人走进我们公司，那个人问我：可以帮我复印个身份证吗?我回答他：不好意思，这里不是复印店。因为我觉得公司的办公资源并不是随便用的，如果每一个人都来说帮忙复印，那么办公资源的损耗量就会增大。虽然说是公家的东西，不是我自己的。但是我觉得我就应该负起这个责任去维护并监督办公资源的使用，不能浪费办公用品。

或许，我的接待工作并不是做得很好。但是，我至少真正地去尽自己的努力接待好访客，为自己以后更好的接待工作做一次的实践。

20xx-3-8星期二

“改变古板思想”

当我开始这份工作时，我就告诉自己要professional，决定当一名文职文员就要有当文员的形象。不知道为什么的，我觉得虽然是当一名文员，但是形象也要注重点。每天穿着正装，扎起平时喜欢玩弄的头发，穿起我不适应的高跟鞋，手提着一个上班族的包包，这样才是工作的样子。然而，我发现上班族的服装不是只有正装，还有别的上班装，只要不要穿不符合工作场合的衣服即可。记得老总当初面试我的时候，他说过：上班的时候，不要穿得不伦不类，上班就要有上班的样子。我当初以为老总的意思是以后上班都要穿正装，原来是我理解错误。开始的时候，我以为自己只是一个文员，后来才知道这个职位其实是兼任老总的助理一样，我的工作不再只是处理日常办公事务，还要完成老总交代下来的任务。文员对我而言，是一个不用伤脑筋的工作，但是在这里工作，我深深的知道文员有时的任务真的很伤脑筋。正如老板交代查资料的时候，我那时单纯的以为只要百度一下就可以。但是老总所要求的资料居然让我查一个上午，还是没有查到所需要的。我开始急，怎么文员工作也这么麻烦的?然而我知道连这都做不好，那么想挑战更好的职位，那便是绝对impossible。

因而，我深深的认识到当一名文员也不简单啊!我的工作人生像一张白纸，要从最简单开始学起，不要怕吃苦，不要轻易言弃，努力拼搏才能赢得精彩的人生。

20xx-3-13星期日

“期待忙碌的工作”

这么多天的工作让我深深地明白到上班族的痛苦：早起!以前在学校还可以睡睡懒觉，上班的日子自己一早爬起床来煮早餐，吃早餐，然后整理仪容仪表，上班挤公交车。我这个文员还是听舒服的，因为每天的工作不多。但是我羡慕别人每天工作忙碌，那样证明一件事：别人所能学到的更多!别人或许说我不会享受，可是我深深地知道我需要知识去充实自己，就算加班我也无所谓。如果加班，可以让我增长更多实用的知识，那么我会说：“我乐意加班。”我期待一份忙碌的工作去锻炼一下我这个工作新人，就连这个星期老总忽然拿一打5厘米厚的资料给我，叫我去把资料都扫描到电脑上。虽然是一份很简单的事，却花费不少时间去做。有人跟我说：“这份工作简直是大材小用吧!”可是，在我看来，在扫描的过程，我也学不少东西!因为那些资料是关于公司合同的资料来的，以前我以为两间公司签合同只需要份合同书就好，可是原来两间公司合作，很多资料都需要准备的。否则，我就不会看到这么厚厚的资料。一边扫描资料，我一边吸收平时接触不到的知识，慢慢地也懂得一些合同方面的事。所以我觉得无论做什么事，只要自己觉得有收获，那也就值得!

工作虽然乏味，但是既然选择，我就会好好地去做，向老总多学学东西，为我更远的路作下铺垫!加油!

20xx-3-14星期一

“处理人际关系”

身为办公室里唯一的一位文员，同样也是唯一一位上班时间必须在办公室办公的我很少会碰到其它的同事，因为我们公司是做节能的，大多数同事都是技术人员，他们的上班场合并不是在办公室。可是，当他们有时到办公室来办事的时候，我觉得大家都是同事，应该不要自己“耍高傲”。那样，实在是错误的!我身为公司的新人，很多事都要向他们学习，处理好人际关系，更加能让大家谈起来不要那么的冷淡。因此，我尽量去记住每一个来过办公室的同事，在他们来到办公室的时候多聊聊，消除一下我这个新人与他们之间的陌生感。而且，他们也很友善，也愿意跟我交谈一下，指导一下我的工作等等。这些，我都很感激他们。就好像前两天，有一个同事来办公室报销他去出差的费用，我不清楚是怎么做的，但是他也很耐心的告诉我应该怎么去做，要注意哪些细节。我不止是公司里的新人，而且也是出社会工作的新人。很多事，不仅仅要靠自己去做，有良好的人际关系，做起事来不会走很多“冤枉路”，而是会事半功倍，自己获得的也会更多。一个连人际关系的人做事不会永远的成功，所谓“得民心者得天下”，虽然现在不是要“得天下”，但是为自己的人生目标，确实要学会去处理好人际关系。

“郁闷的一周”

大学周记 篇4

我决定今天晚上做玉米红薯粥，再炒一份蒜苔鸡蛋，经妈妈的同意后，我就开始做了。

我先在锅里放了大约半锅水，又拿了一块红薯，小心翼翼的把红薯的“红衣裳”去掉。又拿起刀，紧紧握住刀把，用力向红薯切去，但是没有切下来。妈妈提醒我：“要往里拿，不能拿刀把。”我顿时恍然大悟，原来是这样啊!还是妈妈的经验多。我按照妈妈说的，又切了一下红薯，这一次就轻松多了。我三下五除二就切完了红薯，把红薯放进锅里开始煮。接着我拿了一些玉米面，放在一些水里，搅拌均匀。趁着开水的时间摘蒜苔，可是蒜苔好像反对我似的，总“跑”到地上，很不听话。慢慢的，我终于把蒜薹摘完了，蒜苔们好像也累了，一个个垂头丧气。我又把蒜苔们洗了洗，开始用刀切。我左手扶着蒜苔，右手拿着刀，心里想着：哈哈，就你不听话，跟本大王斗，你还嫩了点。说完，便把蒜苔们给解决了。接着，我又磕了两个鸡蛋，用筷子把它们搅拌均匀。这时，锅也开了，我把和好的面倒进锅里，就到另一边炒菜，我先把油倒进锅里，油热啦，就把鸡蛋放了进去，鸡蛋很快就变成了饼状，再把蒜苔放进锅里，没多长时间，玉米红薯粥和蒜苔炒鸡蛋都出炉了。