Travis is the manager of G&G where he is responsible for forty employees (雇員)and profits (利潤) of over $2 million per year. He's never late to work. He does not get upset on the job. When one of his employees started crying after a customer screamed at her, Travis took her away. "Your working uniform is your shelter," he told her. "Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will always be as strong as you want to be."
Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation. The training has, Travis says, changed his life. G&G has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions (情緒). Most importantly, it taught him willpower.
At the center of that education is an extreme focus on an all-important habit; willpower. Dozens of cases show that willpower is the single most important habit for a person's success.
And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. "Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard—but that's because they've made it automatic," Angela Duckworth, one of the University of Pennsylvania researchers said. "Their willpower occurs without them having to think about it."
The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control. Managers wrote workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers' lives. Those courses arc, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.
小題1:We loam from Paragraph 2 that employees in G&G must          .
A.learn to give lectures
B.a(chǎn)ttend education programs
C.design a working uniform
D.develop a common hobby
小題2:Willpower will become a habit when employees can          .
A.focus on the profits
B.benefit from the job
C.protect themselves well
D.control their feeling well
小題3:What can we infer from the passage?
A.G&G has grown into a large company.
B.G&G will spend half its profits training employees.
C.G&G may become more successful in the future.
D.G&G has to produce more workbooks for managers.

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C

試題分析:文章介紹G&G公司的成功秘訣是讓職員參加一個(gè)教育課程,從而獲得自控力,使意志力成為習(xí)慣。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題:根據(jù)第二段的第一句話:Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation.可知G&G公司的雇員從第一天就要開始上這個(gè)教育課程,而且是貫穿整個(gè)的工作,所以他們必須參加教育課程,所以選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題:根據(jù)第四段的第二個(gè)句子:"Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard—but that's because they've made it automatic,"有自控的人不要很努力就可以獲得意志力,因?yàn)樗鼈円呀?jīng)是自動(dòng)的了,可知當(dāng)職員能夠控制他們的感情的時(shí)候,意志力就成為了習(xí)慣,所以選D。
小題3:推理題:根據(jù)文章最后一段的最后一句話:Those courses arc, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.可知G&G公司花了很多精力來訓(xùn)練職員的自控力,并一直發(fā)展很快,所以可以推斷出以后會(huì)更加成功的,所以選C。
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