“Be nice to people.” This sounds like a platitude（老生常谈）,but I’ll never forget my father’s words. I was 10, and I had been mean to someone. He said, “There is no point in being mean to anyone at any time. You never know who you’re going to meet later in life. And by the way, you don’t change anything by being mean. Usually you don’t get anywhere.”
“Remember you can do anything you want to do. Don’t let an
yone say, ‘You’re not smart enough, it’s too hard, it’s a foolish idea, no one has done that before, girls don’t do that.’ ”My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry what others were saying about my career direction.
“Always do the best job you can do at whatever you’re assigned（分派）,even if you think it’s boring.” Jerry Parkinson, my boss at P&G, told me this in 1979. Here I was fresh out of Harvard Business School(HBS), and I was assigned to determine how big the hole in the Ivory shampoo bottle should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch. I did research, focus groups and I would come home at night wondering how I had gone from HBS to this. But later I realized any job you’re given is an opportunity to prove yourself.
“Don’t be a credit hog. If you’re constantly in the neighborhood of good things, good things will happen to you.” Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. It’s true that you get ahead by praising other people.
Finally, in 1998, I was in New York watching the ticker as eBay went public. My husband is a surgeon（外科医生）.I called him and told him the great news. And he said, “That’s nice. But Meg, remember that it’s not brain surgery.”
小题1: We can learn that ______ from the passage.
A．“Be nice to people” is the topic that people like
B．it’s not necessary for us all to be too mean at any time
C．I never forget any word that father spoke to me
D．we won’t be successful if we are too mean to others小题2: How many pieces of advice were given by her family?
A．Two.
B．Four.
C．Three.
D．One.小题3:This passage was written by _____ order.
A．story development
B．time
C．working conditions
D．ideas小题4: The author’s husband is more concerned _____ than eBay’s going public.
A．his success
B．opportunity to prove himself
C．brain surgery
D．his career小题5: What’s the main idea of the whole passage?
A．Advice in life really made a difference to us.
B．We should be nice to people around us.
C．People can succeed by praising others.
D．Too mean persons will get nothing from life.
