He always looked right into my eyes,and he never smiled.I was saturated with cold sweat.
Finally,he asked me a question and I thought I could recover myself.He said,“How did you stand in your class at Georgia Tech before entering Annapolis as a first year student?”I had done very well,and I swelled my chest with pride and answered,“Sir,I stood fifty-ninth in a class of 820!”I sat back to wait for the congratulations—which never came.Instead,the question:“Did you do your best?”I started to say,“Yes,sir,”but I remembered who this was,and recalled several of my times at the Academy when I could have learned more about our allies(二战时的同盟国),our enemies,weapons strategy,and so forth.I was just human.I finally gulped and said,“No.Sir,I didn’t always do my best.”
He looked at me for a long time,and then turned his chair around to end the interview.He asked one final question,which I have never been able to forget—or to answer.He said,“Why not?”I sat there for a while,shaken,and then slowly left the room.
5.The word “saturated”in the second paragraph may probably mean ________.
A.satisfied
B.completely wet
C.shameful
D.separated
F
In recent years many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive. Some experts claim the answer is to make jobs more varied . But do more various jobs lead to greater productivity ?There is evidence to suggest that while variety certainly makes the worker’s life more enjoyable, it does not actually makes him work harder. As far as increasing productivity is concerned, then variety is not an important factor.
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