A. annoying
B. aggressive
C. impatient
D. thrilling
It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck
asked DeLuca about his plans for the future. "I" m going to college, but I need a way to
pay for it," DeLuca recalls saying. "Buck said, "You should open a sandwich shop. ""
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in
ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. DeLuca rented
a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their start-up costs,
Buck kicked in another $ 1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, "After six months, we
were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial
controls." All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same
time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet
Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced
ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, "We are so
successful, we are opening a second store." "And they did--in the spring of 1966. Still,
it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners" learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength.
Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand - deliver the checks to pay their
suppliers."It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary, but as a
result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships
established really helped out." DeLuca says.
And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you
down. You just have to keep working toward your goal," DeLuca adds.
DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multimillion -dollar restaurant chain.
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| Margaret , married with two small children , has been working for the 1ast seven years as a night c1eaner, cleaning offices in a bigbuilding. She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elderchild became seriously ill. "I would have liked to go back to it, butthe shifts(工作班次)are all wrong for me, as I have to be home toget the children up and off to school." So she works as a cleaner instead,from 9 am till 6 am fivenights a week for just￡90 before tax and insilrance. "It"s betterthan it was last year , but I still think that people who work " unsocialhours" should get a bit extra." The hours she"s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of thechildren,but very little of her husband. However, she doesn"t thinkfhat puts any pressure on their re1ationship. Her work isn"t physically very hard, but it"s not exactlypleasant, either."I do get angry with people who leave their officeslike a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have todo it,perhaps they"d be a bit more careful. " The fact that she"s working all night doesn"t worry Margaret atail.Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where sheworks is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I"vegot to be here, I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do,because of theother girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags." Another challenge Margaret has to face is the !reaction of otherpeople when she tells them what she does for a living.They thinkyou"re a cleaner because you don"t know how to read and write, "said Margarit. "I used to think what my parents would say if theyknew what I"d been doing, but I don"t think that way any more. I don"t dislike the work though I can"t say I"m mad about it." | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because__________ | ||||||||||||||||
| A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure C. she needed the right time to look after her children D. she felt tired of taking care of patients | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. Margarel gets angry with people who work in the office because_________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. they never clean their offices B. they look down upon cleaners C. they never do their work carefully D. they always make a mess in their offices | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. When at work , Margaret feels__________ | ||||||||||||||||
| A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers B. happy because the building is fully lit C. tired because of the heavy workload D. bored because time passes slowly | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret"s parents would__________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. help care for her children B. regret what they had said C. show sympathy for her D. feel disappointed in her | ||||||||||||||||
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| There was a very special teacher who made a far-reaching difference in my life. Fa11,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin, "Who" . I asked a senior, "is Mrs McNamara, my l0th grade English teacher?" He just__1_and said something about my being in _2_. Soon,l understood what he meant. Mrs McNamara had a pattem of __3_that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_4_.The next day, when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard_5__ to the homework reading. We were _6_ to write an in-class essay about one of the topics. The following day , she would _7_ the corrected and graded essays andeach person would be called_8_to stand in front of the class and to _9_ his/her essay. The class were required to criticize(评论) that essay ,__10__ the grade of everyone in class would be reduced. The first time that I _11 her read-write-criticize method . I had not _12_ to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant._13_the extreme embarrassment I sufferred,standing before my classmates , _14_ myself. No one laughed at me;no one would be _15_ enough ,or foolish enough ,to do that in Mrs McNamara"s class. The embarrassment came from_16_and along with it came a strong_17_not to let it happen again. Mrs McNamara kept all of our written work in files;it was easy to see the_18_ in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs McNamara_19 me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that.l could improve myself. And I_20__. Thank you,Mrs McNamara. | ||||||||||||||||
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