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会。

18 随着更多的公司彻底地认识到远程办公的好处，他们开始制定方案来解决雇员的孤

立状态从而对这些分散的职工进行更好的管理。三年前，美国快递公司取消了异地销售 人员的办公室，代之以在他们家里或车里的“虚拟办公室”，为此给他们配备了笔记本 电脑、手机和寻呼机。同时，公司正式规定了一些常规，如每星期一上午都要进行与分 公司销售人员和经理之间的电话会议、每个月一次在酒店举行的社交活动、相互负责安 全的两人同行制，即每一个相关销售人员都要与另外一个人协力合作，通过发e-mail或 者打电话来切磋想法并且互相关照。随着员工们更多的时间在做销售，在办公室的时间 变少了，该快递公司的销售电话则激增了 0%。

19 事实上，这给许多人带来了柳暗花明的好日子。麦克?高尔文就是其中之一。他不

再为裁员失业而苦恼。如果说有什么感受，那就是感激。高尔文， 岁，一个给公司 电脑联网和装配电子语音邮件系统的专家，当他五年前被数字设备公司裁员后开始做包 工。他现在已与达拉斯的美国世界通讯公司签订了一个长期的项目，拒绝了几个全职的 工作——接受了就意味着薪水要比现有的工资少 0%。他也不在乎这种全职工作的安全 感，“再也没有稳定的、全职的工作了，”高尔文说。他确信那不是一件坏事。

Unit 2 Friendship

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新发展研究生英语 综合教程 2 教师用书

Part I Understanding and Learning

Text The Art of Friendship

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Stephanie Dolgoff: Stephanie is currently editor-at-large at Parenting. Before that, she was a contributing editor at Real Simple, health director and features director at SELF magazine, and prior to that, executive editor and senior contributing editor at Glamour. She‘s written for The Oprah Magazine, Fitness, Parents, Parenting, Redbook, Seventeen, CosmoGirl, Ladies Home Journal, Prevention, American Photo and many others. For five years she authored a monthly sex column for teens, Ask Anything, for the now defunct YM magazine. Her articles have also appeared in the New York Times and the New York Post. Stephanie has won several awards for her writing, and a section she helped to oversee, SELF magazine‘s 2005 Breast Cancer Handbook, won the ASME award in the category of personal service. Her work has also been published in several books, including The Elephant in the Playroom (Penguin), and The Enlightened Bracketologist (Bloomsbury).

II?????????????????????????????????1. True Friendship: We all have friends. A lot gets talked about friendships. Everyone wants a true friend, and many of us believe that we have a friend who can be called a true friend. After a romantic relationship, friendships are the most important relationships we

Friendship 友谊

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can have. Though all of us have family and distant family, most of us rely on friends for advice, comfort and inspiration. How do we define a relation that can be called as true friendship?

A true friend is a little more than a very good friend. A true friend will support you even if it hurts his/her own interest. A true friend will understand your motives and needs and will be with you without any analysis or criticism. A true friend will come forward to help without any request and be with you in need without showing it or expecting anything in return. With a true friend, you can be sure that you will get help to the extent possible by him/her. Nothing will remain unturned. A mother is a true friend of her children. If we share such relations with an adult we can say that we are true friends.

A true friend makes no excuses of having work or appointments or anything but will be with you whenever you need him/her. In your hour of desperation, a true friend will support you even if the whole world opposes you. A true friend is not an opportunist. A true friend means to have someone who is like mother. Instead of having hundreds of good friends, if you have a true friend, treat yourself lucky. If you can also become a true friend of someone, you will be blessed, because it is much easier for all of us to expect but very difficult to give. Be a true friend yourself first.

2. Friendship Day: Human beings are social creatures and have always valued the importance of friends in their lives. To celebrate this noble feeling it was deemed fit to have a day dedicated to friends and friendship. Accordingly, first Sunday of August was declared as a holiday in US in honor of friends by a Proclamation made by U.S. Congress in 1935. Since then, World Friendship Day is being celebrated every year on the first Sunday in August.

This beautiful idea of celebrating Friendship Day was joyfully accepted by several other countries across the world. And today, many countries including India, celebrate the first Sunday of August as Friendship Day every year. Celebrating Friendship Day in a traditional manner, people meet their friends and exchange cards and flowers to honor their friends. Many social and cultural organizations too celebrate the occasion and mark Friendship Day by hosting programs and get together.

3. Midlife Crisis: Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the ―middle years‖ of life, as a result of sensing the passing of youth and the imminence of old