Question

下面文章中有5个段落需要添加小标题（第61—65题）。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出适合各段落的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Who does freelancing?

B. The advantages and disadvantages of freelance

C. The definition of freelance

D. Key to freelance success

E. What is freelancing really like?

F. The best way to develop a career

1.______________________

Freelance is a word that goes back to medieval times when it was used to describe soldiers who sold their skills to those prepared to pay their market rate. Today it’s an increasingly common way of working for people in a range of occupations and appeals to many who feel constrained by corporate culture.

2.______________________

What you gain is freedom of movement, what you can lose is a sense of belonging. You can end up feeling isolated from normal support networks, because suddenly you are responsible for your own welfare, training, safety, career development, equipment, professional updating and a thousand other things. It is easy to remain unaware of these things in the relatively cosseted existence of full-time employment. So before you leap up into this exciting and potentially rewarding way of working, stand back and take a look at the risks.

3._____________________

Freelancing has always been a common way of working for writers, artists and performers, but the range of occupations with a substantial number of freelancers is growing steadily. Anyone with a marketable skill can choose to go it alone. Websites offer a free directory listing for those with skills to sell. Their categories include accountants, healthcare consultants, landscape architects and computer trainers. Areas of work that have problems recruiting staff are always keen to employ freelancers.

4.______________________

Being a freelance is different from other forms of self-employment—you still work for an employer or several employers but have to develop a completely different set of relationships with them. Employers are now your customers, you are their supplier. You have to become indispensable to them, providing solutions to their problems, some of which they may not even realize they have. In many ways you have to behave like their dream employee, being more willing and available than you may have got used to while in a “proper job”.

5.______________________

You also have to be aware of, and sensitive to ,the fact that you can be seen as a threat by your customer’s conventional employees, who may regard you as taking work they can do. Successful freelancing relies on the co-operation of everyone you come into contact with. Work that brings you into conflict with an existing workforce can be more trouble than it’s worth.

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.E

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述自由职业的起源与发展。

1.C根据下方提到Freelance is a word that goes back to medieval times when it was used to describe soldiers who sold their skills to those prepared to pay their market rate.自由职业可以追溯到中世纪，用来描述出售技能而获得钱的人，故讲述什么是自由职业，故选C项。

2.B根据第一句话提到What you gain is freedom of movement, what you can lose is a sense of belonging你所获得的是自由，你所失去的是归属，故讲述他的优点与缺点，故选B项。

3.A通过这段提到Freelancing has always been a common way of working for writers, artists and performers, but the range of occupations with a substantial number of freelancers is growing steadily讲述谁会是自由职业者，故选A项。

4.E根据下方提到Being a freelance is different from other forms of self-employment—you still work for an employer or several employers but have to develop a completely different set of relationships with them.自由职业不同于固定职业的人，你仍然为一个雇主工作但却以另外一种关系，解释自由职业是什么样子，故选E项。

5.D根据最后一段提到Successful freelancing relies on the co-operation of everyone you come into contact with.成功的自由职业依靠的是与每个人所建立的联系，故讲它的成功窍门。

考点：社会生活类阅读。