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Mum made do,laboring over her square cookie tin for years. She stuck patterns on the bright walls : tin cans of jam and bags of flour to make sure the dolls' store was overflowing.
My mother passed her love of life in miniature( 缩影 ) on to me very early. At age 5,1 made chests of drawers for my dollhouse bedroom from matchboxes glued together. Unlike my mother,l was given some ready-made doll furniture and accessories. My mother encouraged me,always responding to my calI,\to see what I've made Lrur IIly clollhuuse ! \
I spent hours writing a book with the unoriginal but certainly accurate title \How To Make Dolls' House Furniture\The book was lost in a household move. But the satisfying feeling of filling up blank pages with my
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own ideas stayed with me,pushing me into a career centered on
words.
My daughter turned 3 recently, and last month I put a strong empty cardboard box,about the size of a tea tray(托盘) ,in Cassia's bedroom. I searched the shops for dollhouse furniture. But an afternoon's searching yielded only a pink plastic toilet and sink. It doesn't matter,l told myself. I showed Cassia how to make plates for her table from coloured buttons. Fascinated, she collected black stones.
What my mother gave me was much more than a fascination with tiny things :It was the ability to view things from a new perspective(角度) , to put oneself in another person's shoes , and to solve problems with whatever is at hand.
24. What was the writer's mother looking at is_____.
A. a photo of a house online B. a house in Zimbabwe
C. Cassia's self-made dollhouse D. the writer's newly-bought house
25. While making her own dollhouse, the writer______. A. often showed it off to her mother help from others
C. bought lots of doll furniture
B. asked for
D. spent hours
reading a book about dollhouses 26. We can infer that the writer______.
A. built her own house with different materials B. made all accessories herself for her house
C. learned to become a house designer D. made a living by writing books
27. What did the writer learn from her mother?
A. To live independently in one s own house. B. To find treasure of tiny things from the trash
C. To solve problems from a different view. D. To avoid putting on another person's shoes.
C
A new study supports the view that jobs aren't simply a love-at-first-sight deal. Rather, they say that achieving passion for your work is something you can develop over time.
Unlike the main way of thinking that you'Il only achieve passion for your work through finding the right fit with a line of work - what the researchers call \you can learn to love your job and find meaning in it gradually(“developing theory\
We probably hear and think a l.t more about \
than “developing theory\work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work,\Jobs. “And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'II know when you find it. \
Chen and colleagues examined some students' career attitudes and expectations with regard to \theory\\at work by accepting either the fit or develo-ping theory. The key difference lies in how these results are reached : fit theorists(理论家) tend to self-select into lines of work that fit them from the start, while developing theorists grow into that fit over time. \ Fit theorists tend to value enjoyment at the expense of good pay, while developing theorists are willing to let enjoyment take a back seat to other goals, safe in the knowledge that they'll grow into the role and find enjoyment over time.
Everyone has moments of being bored with their work,but it's important to keep your thoughts focused on the bigger picture, your Iong-term goals , and whv you took the role in the first place. 28. According to the \