Dan Price was the CEO of Gravity Payments, a financial services company. One day, he found out a friend was struggling ________. The cost of living in Washington is ________, and she just couldn’t make ends meet(量入为出) on her salary. However, Dan was already earning $1.1 million a year. He realized how ________ it was that he had so much while the people working under him were struggling.
This point was driven home when he ________ a Mc Donald’s handbook on the desk of employee Rosita Barlow. When asked , Rosita burst into tears and ________ that after she left work at Gravity, she went straight to her shifts (轮班)at McDonald’s . Some nights, she even stood ________ at the local food bank.(赈济处)
That’s when Dan decided to do something to stop income ________ in his company. In 2015, he cut his own pay by 90%, mortgaging(抵押)his two houses, and ________ his stocks and savings so that he could ________ every single employee’s pay to $70,000 a year!
More than a third of his employees saw their ________ double. Some feared productivity would decline(下降)if everyone was earning more, but the ________ turned out to be true. Dan’s employees began to truly thrive (奋发)once the stress of making ends meet was ________ from their everyday lives. Employees like Rosita were finally able to quit their second jobs and ________ their work, actually increasing ________.
When COVID-19 hit the U.S, Dan’s company ________ financial difficulties. But what the employees decided ________ Dan! They chose to take a voluntary pay ________ of between 5% and 100% to keep Gravity going ________. The pay cuts worked! Gravity was able to ________ from the economic downturn, and they recently restored all salaries to their pre-pandemic amount.
As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats! Dan treated his employees well. And when it was their turn to________ him, they didn’t let him down!
【小题1】A.politically | B.financially | C.physically | D.emotionally |
【小题2】A.reasonable | B.predictable | C.high | D.low |
【小题3】A.unfair | B.strange | C.challenging | D.harmful |
【小题4】A.forgot | B.composed | C.discovered | D.reviewed |
【小题5】A.insisted | B.argued | C.suggested | D.admitted |
【小题6】A.in peace | B.in line | C.in demand | D.in relief |
【小题7】A.inequality | B.growth | C.redistribution | D.limit |
【小题8】A.looking into | B.taking over | C.showing off | D.giving up |
【小题9】A.earn | B.raise | C.collect | D.reduce |
【小题10】A.market | B.creativity | C.salaries | D.costs |
【小题11】A.same | B.opposite | C.following | D.first |
【小题12】A.separated | B.returned | C.removed | D.hidden |
【小题13】A.focus on | B.pass down | C.apply for | D.talk about |
【小题14】A.requirement | B.competition | C.risk | D.productivity |
【小题15】A.suffered | B.escaped | C.masked | D.caused |
【小题16】A.disappointed | B.astonished | C.frightened | D.amused |
【小题17】A.service | B.reward | C.check | D.cut |
【小题18】A.public | B.free | C.strong | D.quiet |
【小题19】A.benefit | B.change | C.learn | D.recover |
【小题20】A.repay | B.respect | C.improve | D.invite |