【推荐2】How to Keep Peace With Roommates

Keeping peace with your roommates will not always be a walk in the park.     1     Here are some steps you could follow to be at peace with your roommates:

    2     Whether you’re moving into a new room or you’re welcoming a roommate, it’s good practice to set rules from the start. Let your roommates know your plan so they know when quiet time should be observed, and decide on how you’ll share costs on food and so on. When everyone is on the same page in the beginning, it’s easier to get along later on.

Mind your basic manners and get to know your roommates more. Respect for each other and communication can make sure of peace of the room. Basic manners include knocking, saying “excuse me” when needed, being quiet and lowering the light level when the roommate is sleeping. Organize an open discussion about your roommate’s personality. Know his likes and dislikes. Have the necessary information in case of emergencies.     3    

Solve conflicts (矛盾) in a calm manner. Good communication is the key here. It is best to keep the conflicts only in the room when they happen.     4     These are the times when you maturity (成熟) will be tested.

Roommates may be your lifelong friends.     5     This will surely make your new room a home away from home.

A．Keep your things organized.

B．Set rules from the beginning.

C．Anybody requires a certain level of privacy.

D．Learn to treasure your relationship and respect each other.

E．It is not respectful if you tell the conflicts to other people.

F．Instead, you may have to face and deal with different people.

G．This will allow each one of you an opportunity to understand one another more.

【推荐3】The most successful people all have certain habits in their daily routines.     1    Forming a new good habit can be a struggle, but it is well worth the effort. Here are the four steps you can follow to form good habits.

Set your goal.

Before you can begin to work on your new habit, it is worthwhile to consider your goal.    2    Make sure that your goal is specific, measurable and realistic to increase your chances of success.

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Having good habits that are in line with the goals can improve your chances of achieving your goals. After you have set your goal and worked out all of the specifics (细节) of achieving that goal, find a habit that is part of achieving that goal. Consider what good habit would help you achieve that goal.

Consider your motivation.

Once you have identified your goal and the new habit you need to achieve this goal, take some time to consider your motivation.    4    Good motivation can be the difference between success and failure in terms of forming a new habit. So take your time to consider your motivation.

Give yourself time.

Forming a new habit can take a long time. Some people can form a new habit in as little as a few weeks, while other people will take several months. As you work to form your new habit, just keep in mind that it may be a while before it comes true.     5    

A．Identify ways to achieve goals.

B．Find the habit you want to form.

C．Good habits are sure to make you a success.

D．These habits help contribute to their success.

E．Figure out exactly what you hope to achieve.

F．Try to be patient with yourself as you form your new habit.

G．Your motivation is the reason you want to form this new habit.

【推荐1】What’s the point of studying? It’s something you might ask yourself if you’re studying for a degree and you’re struggling to complete homework or in an exam, especially if your friends seem to be out having a good time, or are working and earning lots of money.

Many of us choose to go to university as a first step towards a good career but sometimes that career is to go to university as a first step towards a good career but sometimes that career is hard to achieve and graduates end up doing something they are overqualified for. With the increasing costs of university, students begin to ask themselves whether a degree path is the best route into a career, There is a need for much better career advice and guidance into employment in addition to university education.

But other new research says that a degree will in the long run, earn you more. However there are differences in your earning potential. Dr Jack Britton says that “graduates of the 24 Russell Group universities earn an average of £33,500 after five years - about 40% more than those who studied at other universities.”

However, it has found it’s not just the location but other factors that can play a part in what you can earn, such as the subject a student chooses to study. It discovered that five years after graduation, the income gap between students who studied the subjects that attract the highest and lowest salaries can be considerable. Graduates in subjects such as law, medicine, dentistry as well, tend to do well. And as they progress, the pay gap between these careers and others, such as the creative arts, widens. There are factors too that influence what you might earn: Five years after graduation, men earn on average 14% more than women. Also, a student’s social background can have an effect, with those from better-off household much more likely to go to university and particularly a good one.

But if you still feel university doesn’t deliver the best opportunities then there are encouraging words from Alistair Jarvis, head of universities UK, who told BBC News that “Employs are demanding more graduates and graduates are half as likely to be unemployed as likely to be unemployed as non-graduates. There are many good graduate outcomes coming from universities” So may all that studying is worth it-after all ‘no pain, no gain’!

1. Why do students start to question whether to go to university or not?

A．Because of the heavy studying burden.

B．Because they can’t get a degree after graduation.

C．Because they don’t need a degree for their career.

D．Because of the increasing costs of university.

2. Which major may most probably lead to a lower-earning career?

A．Medicine.	B．Law.
C．Creative arts.	D．Dentistry.

3. Which of the following is most likely to be fired according to Alistair Jarvis?

A．Graduates.	B．Non-graduates.
C．Doctors.	D．Employers.

4. What can be inferred from this passage?

A．Russell Group universities are top ones.

B．Most students go to university to get a good career.

C．One’s location has no effect on his income.

D．Graduates often have more academic qualifications than required for a particular job.

【推荐2】If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis(静止): if our lives were ever in balance—parents happy, kids taken care of, work working—then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.

Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life—just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.

We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.

Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric (织物) of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.

The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love”column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.

Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance?

A．Doubtful.

B．Disapproving.

C．Supportive.

D．Neutral.

2. “Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that __________.

A．arouse your passion	B．satisfy your desires
C．improve your motivation	D．require your efforts

3. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.

B．Recording activities helps create positive feeling.

C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.

D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.

【推荐3】How many of you feel that you really should be working harder? At the same time, how many of you wish you had more time to have fun and enjoy yourself? So how can you solve this paradox (悖论)？

    1     Sometimes a tight schedule can leave you feeling burnt out. On the other hand, spending most of your time on leisure (休闲) often means you don’t end up getting anything done. So how can you achieve a balance between work and leisure?

The first step is to improve the quality of the activities you currently do for both work and leisure. By doing this, you can get a lot more out of the activities using less time.    2    . Focusing on what is really important will allow you to put your time into things that are truly productive or enjoyable (or both).

    3     Having the time to do things simply isn’t enough Certain tasks require a lot of your focus and energy. By trying to increase your energy levels, through proper diet and exercise, it is easier to focus on these tasks rather than waste time.

The third step is to separate your work from leisure time. When you have a project that demands much of your time, you tend to sacrifice leisure time to continue working. In this case you’ll feel burnt out. It’s better to guarantee yourself certain time to leisure.    4    

Achieving the balance between work and leisure can be difficult. But it is not only nice but absolutely necessary for both your productivity and enjoyment. Understanding that is most important.    5    

A．It is a piece of cake to deal with both.

B．Many of your activities are not so important.

C．Solving this problem can be difficult for you.

D．The second step to solve this problem is energy.

E．This will allow you to gain more working experience.

F．Hopefully, you can now strike a balance between work and leisure.

G．Thus you can give yourself plenty of time to relax when you need to.