?

Mr.Evans: Yes - even harder. But I'm self-disciplined and I find that working

hard for a few hours gives me time to play hard too. I have a more

balanced life.

Miss Burnes: So in fact, you too have a routine life?

Mr.Evans: Of course! Everything becomes routine after a while. But it's up to

us to make that routine a creative experience -

Miss Burnes: Oh yes-I do.agree!

Mr.Evans: And we mustn't forget that"all work and no play makes Jack a dull

boy"...

II . Read

Read the following passages. Underline the important viewpoints while reading.



l. Why Work?

Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?

Michael: Not regularly, no. I... I used to;I used to have a job in a publishing

company, but I decided it wasn' t really what I wanted to do and that

what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working

and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and

now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing

and teaching, and others don't.

　
Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till

five?

Michael: Ah... there' re. . . there' re two advantages really. One is that if

yeu feel tired you don't have to get up, and the other is that you can

spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced

to do the same thing all the time.

　
Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because

most of us have to go out and earn our... our livings...um.Do you feel

justified in having this privileged position?

Michael: Yes,because I think I ase it well. I do.things which I think are useful

to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.

Matthew: Joan, do you think that in order to lead a balanced life, people need

some form of work?

　
Joan: Yes, I do, but I think it's equally important that their attitude

to work... um. .. should be positive. If orie is going to look on work

as drudgery, something that one does so that one will enjoy one' s

leisure or whatever comes after it, then... then I don't think there...

there can be very much satisfaction in it. But it seems to me that

whatever work one is actually doing... er... can become creative,and

I think that this is what we all need to feel that we are creating

something,in the same way that even when er... a mother cooks a meal,

she is creating, in her own way, something which... which is very

necessary to her family.

2. What Is the Value of Work?

Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is?

Chris: Well, I think it... in our present-day society... um... for

most people, work has very little value at all um... Most of us go

out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day.

We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless

or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us

the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves

alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our... our

children.


Matthew: But surely people wouldn' t know what to do if they didn't have to

go to work?

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