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_________1．You run a billboard advertising business you inherited(继承)from your father, and you are looking to expand in new directions．What do you do?

_________2．You are a successful talk-show host, and have just achieved national recognition(认可)．You want more control over your show, and a greater share of its profits．What do you do?

_________3．You are still in college, but together with a friend you have established a software company that deals with major corporations．What do you do?

_________4．You are a successful business analyst(分析师), and come to think that the mail-order business model could be adapted to online book sales．What do you do?

_________5．You own several highly profitable waste-collection routes．The government has recently issued the Solid Waste Disposal Act, increasing standards of hygiene(卫生)in waste disposal．What do you do?

A．In 1968, H．Wayne Huizenga teamed with a partner to create a nationwide company for waste collection, a business traditionally made up of small, local companies．The new company, Waste Management, Inc．, became the foundation of his fortune．

B．While attending Harvard University in 1975, Bill Gates teamed with Paul Allen to develop a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800, the first personal computer．They licensed the software to the manufacturer of the Altair and formed Microsoft(originally Micro-soft)to develop versions of BASIC for other computer companies．Gates decided to drop out(退学)of Harvard in his junior year to devote his time to Microsoft．

C．In 1963, Ted Turner took over his family billboard-advertising business．In 1970 he bought a failing UHF(ultrahigh frequency)television station in Atlanta, Georgia, and by 1975 Turner had transformed it into the first“superstation”－WTBS, by transmitting(传送)low-cost sports and entertainment programs via satellite to cable systems throughout the country．

D．In 1986, Oprah Winfrey formed Harpo Productions to produce her own show and other projects．With distribution rights(销售权)to her shows, Winfrey used profits to expand her business activities．By 1998 Winfrey was worth $675 million．

E．Microsoft founder Bill Gates planned to give away almost all of his vast fortune, largely to the cause of global health．Having already the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $24 billion to address global health issues, Gates said that eventually his entire fortune would be put towards the cause except“a few percent left for the kids”．

F．Amazon．com founder Jeff Bezos grew interested in online retailing(零售业)in 1994 while working as a business analyst in New York City．After researching the success of different mail-order companies Bezos decided that books were the perfect product to see via the Internet．That year he left New York to establish his new company in Seattle, chosen for its being near to major book wholesalers and the advanced high-tech industry．In July 1995 Amazon．com developed its Website, and has since expanded to offer many other retail products in addition to books．

The westerners ______ God while few of us accept it.

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about 36 in work and life. Offering his 37 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 38 with a large pot of coffee and a 39 of cups---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to 40 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have 41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been 42 , leaving behind the plain and 43 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 44 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup 45 adds no quality to the coffee. 46 it is just more expensive and in some cases 47 hides what we drink.”
“48 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 49 you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began 50 each other’s cups.”
Now consider this: 51 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. 52 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the 53 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 54 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups 55 you … enjoy the coffee instead.

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about 36 in work and life. Offering his 37 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 38 with a large pot of coffee and a 39 of cups---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to 40 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have 41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been 42 , leaving behind the plain and 43 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 44 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup 45 adds no quality to the coffee. 46 it is just more expensive and in some cases 47 hides what we drink.”
“48 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 49 you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began 50 each other’s cups.”
Now consider this: 51 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. 52 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the 53 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 54 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups 55 you … enjoy the coffee instead.