Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground.
A:Though but practiced B:the
Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground.
A:Though but practiced B:the
"Low" work here means ______.
A:work with brains B:work with hands C:the work that people do at home D:the work scientists do in the lab
"Low" work here means ______.
A:work with brains B:work with hands C:the work that people do at home D:the work scientists do in the lab
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?Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the
causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question.
?There is certainly much work which is exceedingly weary and an excess of
work is always very painful. I think, however, that, provided work is not
excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than
idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the
profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of
the worker. Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself
interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. To begin with, it
fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall
do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to
their own choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be
worth doing. And whatever they decide, they are troubled by the feeling that
something else would have been pleasanter. To be able to fill leisure
intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few
people have reached this level. Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself
tiresome. Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to
be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too
unpleasant. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of
their freedom from toil. At times they may find relief by hunting big game in
Africa, or by flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is
limited, especially after youth is past. Accordingly the more intelligent rich
men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women for the most part
keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of those earth-shaking importance
they are firmly persuaded.
? ?Work therefore is desirable, first
and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when
he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with
the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. With this
advantage of work another is associated, namely that it makes holidays much more
delicious when they come. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to
impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an
idle man could possibly find.
? ?The second advantage of most paid
work and of some unpaid work is that it gives chances of success and
opportunities for ambition. In most work success is measured by income, and
while our capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. It is only where
the best work is concerned that this measure ceases to be the natural one to
apply. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a
desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can acquire.
?However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of building
up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one’s own
circle. |
What is the author’s opinion about work? ______
A:Work can keep people busy as if they were poor. B:Work is a cause of the greatest delight of life. C:Work is very tiresome, especially when too excessive. D:Work can at least give relief from boredom.
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