Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses,an education programme 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(情绪).Most importantly,it taught him willpower.
At the centre of that education is an extreme focus on an allimportant 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 selfcontrol 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 programmes of study to train employees on selfcontrol.Managers wrote workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers' lives.Those courses are,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.
33.We learn from Paragraph 2 that employees in G&G must ________.
A.learn to give lectures
B.attend education programmes
C.design a working uniform
D.develop a common hobby
34.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 feelings well
35.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.
【要点综述】 本文是一篇记叙文,主要介绍一家公司使willpower在员工生活中成为习惯,所以公司取得了巨大成功的故事。
33.B 细节理解题。根据第二段“…an education programme that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation.”可判断员工从入职第一天开始直到整个职业生涯中,都必须接受教育培训。
34.D 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中“‘Sometimes it looks like people with great…they've made it automatic,’…”可知答案。
35.C 推理判断题。根据文章最后一句可知,公司使willpower在员工生活中成为习惯,所以公司取得了巨大成功,以此类推,公司可能在将来更加成功。