Question

下面文章中有5個段落需要添加小標題（第61—65題）。請從以下選項（A、B、C、D、E和F）中選出適合各段落的小標題，并在答題紙上將相應選項的標號涂黑。選項中有一項是多余選項。

A. Who does freelancing?

B. The advantages and disadvantages of freelance

C. The definition of freelance

D. Key to freelance success

E. What is freelancing really like?

F. The best way to develop a career

1.______________________

Freelance is a word that goes back to medieval times when it was used to describe soldiers who sold their skills to those prepared to pay their market rate. Today it’s an increasingly common way of working for people in a range of occupations and appeals to many who feel constrained by corporate culture.

2.______________________

What you gain is freedom of movement, what you can lose is a sense of belonging. You can end up feeling isolated from normal support networks, because suddenly you are responsible for your own welfare, training, safety, career development, equipment, professional updating and a thousand other things. It is easy to remain unaware of these things in the relatively cosseted existence of full-time employment. So before you leap up into this exciting and potentially rewarding way of working, stand back and take a look at the risks.

3._____________________

Freelancing has always been a common way of working for writers, artists and performers, but the range of occupations with a substantial number of freelancers is growing steadily. Anyone with a marketable skill can choose to go it alone. Websites offer a free directory listing for those with skills to sell. Their categories include accountants, healthcare consultants, landscape architects and computer trainers. Areas of work that have problems recruiting staff are always keen to employ freelancers.

4.______________________

Being a freelance is different from other forms of self-employment—you still work for an employer or several employers but have to develop a completely different set of relationships with them. Employers are now your customers, you are their supplier. You have to become indispensable to them, providing solutions to their problems, some of which they may not even realize they have. In many ways you have to behave like their dream employee, being more willing and available than you may have got used to while in a “proper job”.

5.______________________

You also have to be aware of, and sensitive to ,the fact that you can be seen as a threat by your customer’s conventional employees, who may regard you as taking work they can do. Successful freelancing relies on the co-operation of everyone you come into contact with. Work that brings you into conflict with an existing workforce can be more trouble than it’s worth.

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.E

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述自由職業的起源與發展。

1.C根據下方提到Freelance is a word that goes back to medieval times when it was used to describe soldiers who sold their skills to those prepared to pay their market rate.自由職業可以追溯到中世紀，用來描述出售技能而獲得錢的人，故講述什么是自由職業，故選C項。

2.B根據第一句話提到What you gain is freedom of movement, what you can lose is a sense of belonging你所獲得的是自由，你所失去的是歸屬，故講述他的優點與缺點，故選B項。

3.A通過這段提到Freelancing has always been a common way of working for writers, artists and performers, but the range of occupations with a substantial number of freelancers is growing steadily講述誰會是自由職業者，故選A項。

4.E根據下方提到Being a freelance is different from other forms of self-employment—you still work for an employer or several employers but have to develop a completely different set of relationships with them.自由職業不同于固定職業的人，你仍然為一個雇主工作但卻以另外一種關系，解釋自由職業是什么樣子，故選E項。

5.D根據最后一段提到Successful freelancing relies on the co-operation of everyone you come into contact with.成功的自由職業依靠的是與每個人所建立的聯系，故講它的成功竅門。

考點：社會生活類閱讀。