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高级口译0503听力原文汇总合集（5）

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　　高级口译0503听力原文汇总合集（5）

　　Questions 16 to 20

　　【原文】

　　We live in a society increasingly obsessed with material success. We’re exhorted to get on, get ahead, or make it to the top. If you don’t prosper, it’s easy to feel like a flop, that you’ve wasted your life, and failed your family. But is such success open to all? Do we all have the potential to be millionaires? And can success be taught? What can we learn from those who do make it to the top?

　　Becoming a millionaire is a surprisingly haphazard affair. At school, we’re told that if we work hard and pass exams, we will do well. But a recent study by Professor Kerry Cooper of the University of Manchester refutes this advice. When he studied the lives of successful entrepreneurs, he found that nearly 60% left school early, either because they were thrown out or were bored. Other studies suggest there is little correlation between how well children do at school and the salary and job satisfaction they achieve as adults. The most certain route to riches is to start out wealthy. Over half the people in the most recent Sunday Time’s survey of the richest 200 people in the country inherited money. 25% of those who head large corporations were born into affluent families.

　　If you’re not born wealthy, you may be able to capitalize on another advantage --- good looks. Good looks make early life easier. Teachers and other children will expect you to be kinder, cleverer, and to do better than plainer peers, explains Dr. Raymond Bow of Portsmouth University, expert on the effects of facial appearance. Being tall is also an advantage. Other qualities being equal, employers are more likely to select taller and more attractive people. However, unless you want to work with children, it can be a handicap having too pretty a baby face. You’re likely to be regarded as kind, but not very efficient. You may fare better by taking to crime. Juries are far more likely to acquit you.

　　In a new book, Business Elites, Profess Cooper compares a number of successful entrepreneurs with people Cooper calls “intrapreneurs”. He defines intrapreneurs as those who rise through the ranks to the top of large corporations. Cooper found major differences between the two groups. Intrapreneurs tended to be the kids everyone thought would do well. Over half went to university. They’re good organizers, and get on well with people. But the entrepreneurs often had early reputations as trouble makers. They probably left school early, had several business disasters, and are of awkward personalities. They’re also intuitive and very determined. The most dramatic difference between entrepreneurs and corporation highfliers was that only 5% of Cooper’s entrepreneurs had both parents present throughout childhood, compared with 91% of the intrapreneurs. In some cases, the parent had died. In others, they had been absent for long periods. Coping with disaster early in life appears to give people vital resilience later on, suggests Cooper.

　　But even if you’re born poor and ugly, to parents who refuse to absent themselves from you, there’s still plenty you can do to influence your chance of success. A range of courses and self-help manuals are available to help you forge your way to the top. Go into any large bookshop, and you’ll find a section with title such as The Magic of Thinking Big, or Riches While You Sleep. There’s even a magazine called Personal Success, filled with ads for courses that will unleash the power within, or transform your thinking, behavior, and relationships. Successful people, says Breen, an organizational consultant, are the ones who, when something doesn’t work, try something else. Unsuccessful people keep on doing the same thing, only harder.

　　16. What’s the speaker mainly talking about?

　　17. According to the passage, what’s the most certain route to riches?

　　18. What’s the definition of an “intrapreneur” given by Professor Cooper?

　　19. What’s the most dramatic difference between entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs?

　　20. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

　　本文选自新东方口译名师裴晓栋的blog,blog链接地址：http://blog.hjenglish.com/peixiaodong