Ⅰ.阅读理解
We have often heard that “work smart and not hard”．Does only smart work bring you success？And if so, then why are so many of us still busy putting our blood and sweat into working hard？Here, we'll discuss hard work and smart work.
Hard work is all about consistently working towards a particular goal irrespective (不考虑的) of its worth, not being worried about the result and not using any means to reduce your effort.Hard work requires a lot of commitment (投入) and sincerity from the person.Although being bored and tiresome, it can give you the best results if it is done with heart and soul.
One of the preconditions of smart work is having indepth knowledge or experience of the work in hand, because that allows you to look for efficient ways to do the work in a planned time.Being a smart worker saves a lot of time as you can find means to reduce your work by using logical and innovative ways to achieve your goals.Besides, it also gives you enough time to learn a new task while completing the present one.
Although it seems that smart work is a better option, what we forget is that smart work is the fruit of hard work.Only when you work hard you gather the expertise (专门技能) and the knowledge to understand the work in hand and efficiently improve on it and work smartly.
You will attain great heights and lead a better and comfortable life if you combine both smart and hard work together.If you are not smart, your hard work will never pay.A donkey only does hard work, while a horse does hard work and uses its smartness whenever and wherever it needs.In a similar way, smart work is the result of hard work.To master the quality of smart work, you really need to work hard.Through hard work, we gain experience which helps us discover new things that may make us work smartly.The effort is important, but where to make that effort makes a difference.
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。作者通过解释勤奋工作和智慧工作的概念，对比两者的关系，从而得出两者缺一不可的结论。
1．What can we learn about hard workers from Paragraph 2?
A．They lack proper work skills.
B．They always have great patience.
C．They tend to ignore the goal of work.
D．They obtain excellent results from their work.
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第二段中的Although being boring and tiresome, it can give you the best results if it is done with heart and soul.可知，勤奋工作者可以得到很好的工作结果。
2．Smart workers can save a lot of time by .
A．making a sensible plan
B．making use of innovative ways
C．learning experience from others
D．getting inspiration from a new task
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第三段中的Being a smart worker saves a lot of time ...by using logical and innovative ways to achieve your goals.可知，智慧工作者通过使用革新的方法来节约很多时间。
3．What does the author think of hard work?
A．It is inspiring.
B．It is ineffective.
C．It is challenging.
D．It is fundamental.
解析：选D 推理判断题。根据第四段中的smart work is the fruit of hard work.Only when you work hard you gather ...可推断，作者认为勤奋工作是基础性的，是智慧工作的先决条件。
4．What does the example of donkey in Paragraph 5 intend to show?
A．It is useless to work hard.
B．It is necessary to work smartly.
C．The efforts you make matter most.
D．The horse is cleverer than the donkey.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据第五段中的The effort is important, but where to make that effort makes a difference.并结合作者所举的例子可推断，作者想说明智慧工作也是必不可少的。
