1 . By day, Robert Titterton is a lawyer. In his spare time though he goes on stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova — not as a musician but as her page turner. “I’m not a trained musician, but I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance.”
Mr Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group’s official page turner for the past four years. His job is to sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the musician doesn’t have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as nervous as those playing instruments on stage.
“A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don’t turn two pages at once and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot.” Mr Titterton explained.
Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communication is key, and each pianist has their own style of “nodding” to indicate a page turn which they need to practise with their page turner.
But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. “I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand,” Mr Titterton said, “Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back.”
Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming concert pianists, although Ms Raspopova has once asked her husband to help her out on stage.
“My husband is the worst page turner,” she laughed. “He’s interested in the music, feeling every note, and I have to say: ‘Turn, turn!’ Robert is the best page turner I’ve had in my entire life.”
1. What should Titterton be able to do to be a page turner?A.Read music. | B.Play the piano. |
C.Sing songs. | D.Fix the instruments. |
A.Boring. | B.Well-paid. |
C.Demanding. | D.Dangerous. |
A.Counting the pages. | B.Recognizing the “nodding”. |
C.Catching falling objects. | D.Performing in his own style. |
A.He has very poor eyesight. | B.He ignores the audience. |
C.He has no interest in music. | D.He forgets to do his job. |
2 . Emoji(表情符号) and Workplace Communication
In Asia, messaging platforms are growing rapidly, with users in the hundreds of millions, both at work and play.
Written communications can often read as cold and dull. Using emojis can add humor and feeling, keeping intention clear.
In any given office, employees can range from age 22 to 70 and beyond, and finding common ground in communication style can be a challenge.
There is also the matter of tone(语气). Who hasn’t received an email so annoying that it ruined an entire day?
A.Message with emojis feel more conversational |
B.Even a formal email can seem cold and unfriendly |
C.Sending smiling faces to colleagues may seem strange |
D.The popularity of these platforms is spreading globally |
E.Giving employees the tools enables them to communicate honestly |
F.Studies show that friendlier communication leads to a happier workplace |
G.An easy way to bring all work generations together is with a chat platform |
3 . How to Do Man-on-the-Street Interviews
The man-on-the-street interview is an interview in which a reporter hits the streets with a cameraman to interview people on the spot.
When your boss or professor sends you out to do man-on-the-street interviews for a story, think about the topic and develop a list of about ten general questions relating to it. For example, if your topic is about environmental problems in America, you might ask, “Why do you think environmental protection is important in America?”
Hit the streets with confidence.
Move on to the next person if someone tells you she is not interested. Don’t get discouraged.
If your news station or school requires interviewees to sign release forms to appear on the air, don’t leave work without them.
A.Limit your time. |
B.As you approach people, be polite. |
C.If you don’t own a camera, you can buy one. |
D.For new reporters, this can seem like a challenging task. |
E.To get good and useful results, ask them the same question. |
F.That number of interviews should give you all the answers you need. |
G.With a question like this, you will get more than a “Yes” or “No” reply. |
4 . Do you like the idea of running your own business from home? Most of you do, and the first things you say you like about it are being your own boss, having flexible hours and working in your pajamas.
Being your own boss is definitely one big advantage.
Working in your pajamas may seem appealing initially. But it can also prevent you from actually getting your work done.
In order to run a successful business from home you need to have a good mindset.
Taking off too many hours each week will damage your financial stability and long-term success. Set goals and limits on your time. Build your business first, before taking advantage of what working from home offers.
A.But it can also become your downfall without care. |
B.Flexible hours are another huge plus of working from home. |
C.Once it's achieved, you'll have more opportunities to develop business contacts. |
D.You may find it more efficient to get up, exercise, then shower and dress for work. |
E.This includes realizing that you and only you are responsible for your own income. |
F.One of the biggest drawbacks is that it is so easy to allow yourself to have excuses. |
G.While these benefits sound great, the reality of working from home can be a little different. |
5 . When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note — “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” — and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊) . Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer to __________.A.show his magical power | B.pay for the delivery |
C.satisfy his curiosity | D.please his mother |
A.He wanted to have tea there. | B.He was a respectable person. |
C.He was treated as a family member. | D.He was fully trusted by the family. |
A.Nobody wants to be a milkman now. | B.It has been driven out of the market. |
C.Its service is getting poor. | D.It is not allowed by law. |
A.He missed the good old days. | B.He wanted to tell interesting stories. |
C.He needed it for his milk bottles. | D.He planted flowers in it. |
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8 . Oliver, the CTO of a high-tech company, loved to participate in all conversations at the C-suite level, regardless of topic. He was often the first to raise his hand for a project, appeared to have infinite capacity to get high-quality work done, and offered to assist his peers and direct reports. Oliver seemed to be all-in; optimistic, energetic, supportive, and someone who constituted to everyone.
However, the more Oliver participated, the more others around him were slighted. Instead of sparking creatively in others, his ideas outshone everyone else’s. He consumed time speaking in meetings, exhausting the oxygen level in the room. Oliver felt pumped up by how many of his ideas had been deployed but frustrated by others’ lack of sufficient effort.
While the CEO appreciated Oliver’s yield, she recognized he had to change his approach to keep the rest of the team productive. In response, Oliver worked out a plan to help address his cooperation challenges using techniques many other executives had deployed.
When we over-participate, we believe that we're being helpful. However, “helpfulness” is defined by the recipient, not the giver. Instead of improving his relationships with colleagues, Oliver robbed them of fulfillment by furnishing masses of ideas. They felt discouraged, interrupted, and excluded. To fix the issue, Oliver learned the value of asking two specific questions before offering his own ideas: “What have you thought of?” and “What would be most helpful for you at this point?” Surveying others to understand what’s helpful illuminates better avenues for our contribution: directly through our ideas, through coaching colleagues to create their own, or by building on what someone else has generated.
1. What can we learn about Oliver?A.He lacks creativity. | B.He favours competition. |
C.He works enthusiastically. | D.He behaves irresponsibly. |
A.The team generated more diverse ideas. |
B.Oliver’s colleagues became less productive. |
C.Group meetings were more time-consuming. |
D.Oliver’s teammates were inspired to work harder. |
A.Hearing others’ voices. | B.Providing specific ideas. |
C.Strengthening his leadership. | D.Building strong relationships. |
A.When Leaders Fail to Keep the Team Productive |
B.When Contributing Gets in the Way of Cooperating |
C.How a Great Team Welcomes Ideas in a Discussion |
D.How Active Participation Gives Rise to a Better Team |
9 . Aside from a nursing degree, work experience and a desire to be a travel nurse, there are several must have “soft” skills that you need to be suitable for the job.
Adaptability is one of the most important skills needed to be a travel nurse.
Being able to change in response to a situation is a key skill in being a good travel nurse. To be flexible, you need to be capable of quickly changing the way you work to best fit your boss’ needs.
Joining a new team for a short time means you need to communicate effectively. Keeping important things to yourself and being too closed won’t win you any friends.
Relationships play a big part in the success of your lives.
A.Not everyone can get used to it. |
B.You need to communicate in a clear. friendly way. |
C.Besides, a love of traveling is vital to being a travel nurse. |
D.Soft skills enable you to get along with others and form relationships. |
E.If you can adapt to a new environment quickly, you have an advantage. |
F.People who can meet changing requirements are seen as valuable team players. |
G.Developing relationships quickly and meaningfully will help your travel nursing career. |
10 . An interview is a discussion with someone in which you try to get information from them.
A great deal is provided by this personal contact: you are another human being, and interviewees will respond to you, in bodily presence, in an entirely different way from the way that they would have reacted to questionnaires that came through their letterboxes or to emails.
If you take the trouble to schedule a visit, you can be more or less guaranteed of a response. Most importantly, though, you will be able to relate to interviewees while you are talking to them.
A.This is a ready-made support for you. |
B.Its nature varies with the nature of the interviews. |
C.You will be able to hear and understand what they are saying. |
D.Your decision should influence the way that you look, sound and behave. |
E.The information may be facts or opinions or attitudes or any combination of these. |
F.Each involves the interviewer in fact-to-face contact or telephone contact with another person. |
G.You will be using these clues to make informed guesses about what the interviewees might really mean. |