仅做参考好好学习，天天向上Unit 2Factors That Affect Career Choices影响职业选择的因素The first step in planning a career for yourself or someone else is to learn as much as possible about the person’s interests, aptitudes, and skills.为自己或别人制定职业规划的第一步是要尽可能多的认识对象的兴趣、能力和技能之所在。
Each person’s career goes through stages, and the stage you are in will influence your knowledge of and preference for various occupations. The main stages of this career cycle follows.每个人的职业所经历的阶段,并且这些阶段将影响你的知识,和对各种职业的偏爱。
职业的主要循环阶段如下。
Growth Stage The growth stage lasts roughly from birth to age 14 and is a period during which the person develops a self-concept by identifying with and interacting with other people such as family, friends and teachers. Toward the beginning of this period, role playing is important, and children experiment with different ways of acting; this helps them to form impressions of how other people react to different behaviors and contributes to their developing a unique self-concept or identity. Toward the end of this stage, the adolescent (who by this time has developed preliminary ideas about what his or her interests and abilities are) begins to think realistically about alternative occupations.成长阶段成长阶段大约是从出生持续到14岁,在这个阶段的人通过与别人认识和相互影响来增强自我了解,例如家庭、朋友和老师。
Unit2一、词汇短语Text I1. obituary [ ]n. a published notice of a death, sometimes with abrief account of the dead person’s life. 讣告，讣闻I read Sewell’sobituary in the Daily News.我在《每日新闻》上读到了休厄尔的讣告。
2. workaholic [ ]n. a person who works obsessively and finds itdifficult to stop工作狂：He was a lifelong workaholic, who painteddawn to dusk seven days a week.终生醉心于工作，天天从早画到晚。
3. conceivably [ ]adv. in a manner that can be imagined orbelieved可以想象的，令人信服的：Conceivably, those disputes couldfade if Japan’s trade surplus continues to fall.可以预见，如果日本的贸易顺差继续下降，那么这些争论就会淡化。
4. executive [ ]n. a person or group having administration ormanagerial authority in an organization（公司或机构的）经理，主管领导，管理人员：A good executive usually gets on well with people.一个好的高级管理人员通常与人们相处得很好。
5. survive [ ] v. a) to live longer than, to outlive比…活得长，经历…之后还存在：Most parents expect that their children will survive them.大多数父母都希望子女能够比他们自己长寿。
Unit 2Text A技术与幸福Technology and Happiness詹姆斯·萨洛维奇PrefaceIn the present era, all of us are enthusiastically pursuing technological advancement and take it for granted that the development of technology will make us happier. However, little evidence can be found to prove the correlation between technology and happiness once material and technological advances reach a certain level. The text below may provide you with some insights into this issue.20世纪的美国人、欧洲人和东亚人都享受到了过去历代人都无法想象的物质和技术进步带来的乐趣。
譬如，在美国，从1950年到2000年国民生产总值翻了3倍。
人们的寿命大幅度提高。
二战后生产力的迅速发展使商品变得价廉物美。
诸如乘飞机旅游和打长途电话等曾经是奢侈的事情成了生活不可或缺的一部分。
In the 20th century, Americans, Europeans, and East Asians enjoyed material and technological advances that were unimaginable in previous eras. In the United States, for instance, gross domestic product per capita tripled from 1950 to 2000. Life expectancy soared. The boom in productivity after World War II made goods better and cheaper at the same time . Things that were once luxuries, such as jet travel and long-distance phone calls, became necessities. And even though Americans seemed to work extraordinarily hard, their pursuit of entertainment turned media and leisure into multibillion-dollar industries.那么，根据大多数标准衡量，你会说，现在的美国人比上个世纪中叶富裕多了。
