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B考察细节理解题。根据文意 Recently a European Commission tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. 最近欧洲委员会想了解一下妇女解放运动的成效,可知该调查是在欧洲进行的,所以答案是B。
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D考察细节理解题。根据文意As part of their survey, they asked many men and women the question, "Who does the housework?"调查的部分是"家庭中谁做家务",所以答案是D。
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C考察判断推理题。根据文章第二段的数据可知女性做的家务比男性要所所以答案是C。
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A考察细节理解题。根据文意48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house可知英国男性做家务的次数比丹麦男性要多,所以答案是A。
考点:调查类阅读。
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I'm not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don't come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that's just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it'll require even more time, time that most people won't put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don't enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It's sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there's a huge chance that you're wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out,