【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 the poison. Very few people actually die from snake bites in Britain,and though these bites can make some people veryill,there are probably just as many cases of bites having little or no effect, as thereare are to be found_______. many parts of Britain and Ireland in Britain except Scotland wild land throughout Britain except Ireland shady fields in Scotland you are with someone who is bitten by an adder,you should_______. to catch the adder no attempt to treat the bite by yourself worry about the victim on him as soon as possible are told that adders are_______. friendly towards people to bite except in selfdefence of attacking anyone in their territory afraid of human beings general,British people think snakes are_______. very mon in Britain all very dangerous of killing people by their bites threat to human beings B There are two basic differences between the large and the small the small firm you operate primarily through personal the large firm you have established“ policies” ,“ channels” of anization,and fairly rigid procedures(固 體的程序 ).In the small firm you have,moreover,immediate effectiveness in a very small can see the effect of your work and of your decisions right away,once you are a little above the ground the large firm even the man at the top is only a cog(嵌齒 )in a big be sure,his actions affect a much greater area than the actions and decisions of the man in the small anization,but his effectiveness is remote,indirect,and difficult to see at first a small and even in a middlesized business you are normally exposed to all kinds of experiences,and expected to do a great many things without too much help or the large anization you are normally taught one thing the small one the danger is of being a jackofalltrades and master of the large one it is of being the man who knows more and more about less and less. There is one other important thing to consider:do you derive a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a wellknown anization— General Motors,the Bell Telephone System,the government?Or is it more important to you to be a wellknown and important figure within your own small pond?There is a basic difference between the satisfaction that es from being a member of a large,powerful,and generally known anization,and the one that es from being a member of a family。between impersonal grandeur(偉大 )and personal— often much too personalintimacy(親密 )。between life in a small office on the top floor or a skyscraper and life in a crossroads gas station. a large enterprise,_______. technology is employed quickly people work efficiently 39。s effectiveness is felt very slowly can get promotion easily the first paragraph,a “ jackofalltrades” means_______. person who doesn39。t know anything about business person who is very capable as a businessman person who knows a little bit of everything person who is very knowledgeable about trade can conclude from the first paragraph that the writer_______. to work for a large firm not mention his own preference to work for a small firm against anything that goes to its extreme the second paragraph,the contrast(對(duì)比 )between the anization and the family is employed to show_______. necessary a deep sense of satisfaction is satisfaction means to different types of people families may differ from one another large firm can offer to ordinary families