Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was unable to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” Instead, he wrote the two most famous papers when he was employed as a patent  clerk. After their publication, there was not a major university in the world that would not have been glad to have him on their staff.
If you want to work as an artist and you are making a living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiter tables—and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft（手藝）in the off hours.
While seeking the work you love, it helps to expand your awareness  into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be limited to the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened to all possibilities, you can make a final decision and select the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love requires that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.
小題1:According to the passage, perhaps Einstein once said to himself, “_______.”
A．Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for
something else
B．The job is just what I want, I should work very hard at it
C．I have to support myself by working as a patent clerk now, but I won’t give physics up
D．I must wait until I find my favorite job
小題2:If a person works 24 hours a week, he can________.
A．have enough spare time for his hobbies
B．have no time left to make his dream come true
C．do nothing else
D．make a good living
小題3:Which of the following is not implied in the last paragraph?
A．Sometimes the imaginative is different from the practical.
B．We have to take care of a lot of details before we make our dreams come true.
C．We shall do practical things rather than dream.
D．We shall dream big dreams and practice as well.
小題4:According to the passage, the author encourages us to ________.
A．start work quickly B．select job carefully and patiently
C．dream oftenD．make up our minds quickly

小題1:C
小題1:A
小題1:C
小題1:A 

小題1:C 推理綜合題。文章的主旨是做自己熱愛(ài)的工作，而謀生的工作只是支持它，所以愛(ài)因斯坦可能曾經(jīng)鼓勵(lì)自己繼續(xù)探索物理，同時(shí)工作以支持自己熱愛(ài)的事業(yè)，故選擇C
小題1:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第二段提到It is possible to ……in the off hours.說(shuō)明一個(gè)人可以一周工作24小時(shí)，剩下的時(shí)間都可以用來(lái)做自己熱愛(ài)的事業(yè)，故選擇A
小題1:C 主旨大意題。最后一段主要強(qiáng)調(diào)我們要將夢(mèng)想和現(xiàn)實(shí)結(jié)合，所以只有C項(xiàng)的：我們只需要做現(xiàn)實(shí)的事務(wù)不需夢(mèng)想，是錯(cuò)誤的。故選擇C
小題1:A 主旨大意題。文章的中心思想在開(kāi)頭就有提及，Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible，可見(jiàn)作者鼓勵(lì)我們盡快工作，故選A
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A．the car transport company usually had its cars rented
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