Английский язык. Климова А.Ю - 18 стр.

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needs an answer from you on the sport. He hasn’t told you what the project is, but
you make the quick decision to accept. This is the right quick decision, because you’re
basing it on a lot of factors that will occur to you later. One is that it wouldn’t make
sense for the boss to ask you to do something he didn’t think you could handle. That
would only hurt his business. Plus, doing a good job on this project might help your ca-
reer. You realize it’s good to reach higher, if you want to get ahead.

       But let’s say you’re on a deserted highway late at night and your car breaks
down. Along comes a car driven by someone who doesn’t seem quite right to you. He
offers you a ride to the nearest gas station. You make the quick decision to accept the
ride because it’s late, you’re cold and tired and you don’t want to sit there waiting for
the highway patrol to arrive. This is a case where a quick decision is a wrong decision.
You shouldn’t trade your personal safety for physical comfort, and if you thought about
it, you wouldn’t.

      How do you know when it’s okay to make a quick decision? You have to be able
to guess at the possible benefits versus the possible dangers. If it’s a small decision like
where to go to lunch, who cares. However, if my whole future were at stake, I’d want
as much time as I could get to think about it.

9     Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People are never satis-
      fied with what they have; they always want something more or something dif-
      ferent. Use specific reasons to support your answer.

      I think it’s probably true that people are never satisfied with what they have.
They always want something different from what is theirs. This just seems to be part of
our human nature. Look at a toddler. Give her a toy to play with and she’s happy-until
she sees something else. Then she wants that other toy to play with. If she and her
brother are each given a cookie, she’ll look to see whose cookie is bigger. She‘ll protest
loudly if she thinks her brother is getting more.

       “The grass is always greener” is an old expression, but it’s a good expression of
how many of us feel. We’re always striving for a better job, a nicer place to live, a fan-
cier car, or more expensive clothes. Part of this reaching for more and better is because
we care about what other people think and want to impress them. Part of it is trying to
make ourselves fell successful. But there’s also something in our nature that tells us we
can do better and reach higher.

       This isn’t always a negative quality. There’s another saying: “A man’s reach
should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” It’s a good thing to be constantly
pushing ourselves and looking for something different. If we don’t try for more and dif-
ferent things, we begin to stagnate, like a pool that doesn’t get any fresh water.