1[问答题]Ted Ning worked as a salesman in that insurance company for a year because he simply didn’t know what else to do,but felt his happiness and health suffer as a result.He eventually quit and stumbled upon a new company in a help-wanted advertisement for a data analyst.“I didn’t know what the company was”,he says,“but I want to have a try.” It turned out to be a better job than he could have ever imagined.
In contrast with his disastrous attempt into the insurance business,Ning’s new job felt like coming home.From his ground-level job,Ning moved quickly up the ranks in the new company,becoming its executive director in 2006.Today,the company is booming,the organization is expanding and the market is evolving.Ning has more than grown into the position he stumbled on in the want ads.“I don t consider this a job.It is really more of a calling.”
参考答案：泰德·宁在那家保险公司当了一年的销售员，因为他只是不知道自己还能做些什么，但是因此他在精神和身体上都很痛苦。最终，他辞职了，并且在一份招聘数据分析师的广告中偶然发现了一家新公司。“我不知道这家公司是做什么的，”他说，“但是我想试试。”结果证明，那份工作比他曾经想象的更好。
与在保险业灾难性的尝试形成鲜明对比的是，宁在新工作中如鱼得水。从基层工作干起，他在新公司的事业一路飞升，2006年成了执行董事。如今，公司蓬勃发展，组织不断扩张，市场持续发展。宁远不止适应了他在招聘广告上偶然发现的这一职位。“我不认为这是一份工作。它真的更像是一个召唤。”
2[问答题]“Over the last two years a green tidal wave has come over us,”says Ning.Riding that wave,says Ning,is not about going with the tides.It's connecting with-and acting on-a set of shared,inherent values.“People know what is authentic.You can't preach this lifestyle and not live it,”he says.He and his wife,Jenifer,live in a solar-powered home,raise organic vegetables in their backyard and drive a car that gets 48 miles to the gallon.He even buys carbon offsets to negate the global warming impact of his cell phone.
“People are looking internally,”he says,“asking themselves,’What really makes me happy?’ Is it the fact that I can go out and buy that giant flat-screen TV,or is it that I can have a quiet evening with my family just hanging out and playing a game of Scrabble?” For Ning,it's a no-brainer.He'll take Scrabble every time.
参考答案：“在过去的两年中，一股绿色环保风潮向我们涌来。”宁说道。他说，跟着绿色环保风潮不是赶时髦，它与一系列共同的内在价值观建立联系，并践行这些价值观。“人们知道什么是真的，你不能宣扬种生活方式却不按照这种方式生活。”他说。他和妻子珍妮弗住在一个由太阳能供电的房子里，在后院种有机蔬菜，开一辆毎加仑汽油能跑48英里的车。他甚至购买碳补偿来抵消自己使用手机对全球变暖的影响。
“人们都在向内看。”宁说道，并且自问“真正让我开心的是什么?究竟是出去购买那台巨大的平板电视，还是和家人待在一起，玩拼字游戏，度过一个安静的夜晚?”对于宁而言，这是无需思考的事。他每次都会选择拼字游戏。
3[问答题]Google and other big tech providers are taking some measures to control CO2 emissions.Google claims to be more efficient than most.Recently,industry and government agencies from the US,Europe and Japan reached an agreement,orchestrated by an American company,on how to improve the energy efficiency of data centers.
Simple things-such as turning devices off when they are not in use-can help to reduce the impact of our love affair with all things digital.Research from the National Energy Foundation in the UK found that nearly 20 percent of workers don’t turn their PCs off at the end of the day,wasting 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year,which equates to the annual CO2.produced by 200000 small family cars.Technology could have a huge role to play in reducing energy consumption-just think of the number of car and bus journeys saved by something as simple as online banking.
参考答案：谷歌和其他大型科技供应商正在采取一些措施来控制二氧化碳的排放。谷歌声称他们比大多数公司更加高效。最近，美国、欧洲和日本的行业和政府机构在一家美国公司的协调下，就如何提高数据中心的能源效率问题达成了一致意见。
一些简单的事情——例如在不使用电子设备时将其断电—一能够帮助减少我们对所有数码产品的迷恋所带来的影响。英国国家能源基金会的研究发现，有近20%的员工在结束一天工作后不关电脑，每年浪费15亿千瓦时的电，这相当于20万辆小型家庭汽车年二氧化碳的排放量。科技可以在降低能源消耗方面发挥巨大的作用，只要想想网上银行这样简单的事情就可以节省多少车马劳顿。
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