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Travis is the manager of G&G where he is responsible for forty employees (雇员)and profits (利润) of over $2 million per year. He's never late to work. He does not get upset on the job. When one of his employees started crying after a customer screamed at her, Travis took her away. "Your working uniform is your shelter," he told her. "Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will always be as strong as you want to be."
Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation. The training has, Travis says, changed his life. G&G has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions (情绪). Most importantly, it taught him willpower.
At the center of that education is an extreme focus on an all-important habit; willpower. Dozens of cases show that willpower is the single most important habit for a person's success.
And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. "Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard—but that's because they've made it automatic," Angela Duckworth, one of the University of Pennsylvania researchers said. "Their willpower occurs without them having to think about it."
The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control. Managers wrote workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers' lives. Those courses arc, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.
【小题1】We loam from Paragraph 2 that employees in G&G must          .

A.learn to give lectures
B.attend education programs
C.design a working uniform
D.develop a common hobby
【小题2】Willpower will become a habit when employees can          .
A.focus on the profits
B.benefit from the job
C.protect themselves well
D.control their feeling well
【小题3】What can we infer from the passage?
A.G&G has grown into a large company.
B.G&G will spend half its profits training employees.
C.G&G may become more successful in the future.
D.G&G has to produce more workbooks for managers.


【小题1】B
【小题2】D
【小题3】C

解析试题分析:文章介绍G&G公司的成功秘诀是让职员参加一个教育课程,从而获得自控力,使意志力成为习惯。
【小题1】细节题:根据第二段的第一句话:Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employee's occupation.可知G&G公司的雇员从第一天就要开始上这个教育课程,而且是贯穿整个的工作,所以他们必须参加教育课程,所以选B。
【小题2】细节题:根据第四段的第二个句子:"Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren't working hard—but that's because they've made it automatic,"有自控的人不要很努力就可以获得意志力,因为它们已经是自动的了,可知当职员能够控制他们的感情的时候,意志力就成为了习惯,所以选D。
【小题3】推理题:根据文章最后一段的最后一句话:Those courses arc, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.可知G&G公司花了很多精力来训练职员的自控力,并一直发展很快,所以可以推断出以后会更加成功的,所以选C。
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