第一部分阅读判断 Work is A Service Young people may ask themselves questions like this when they apply for employment:“What are my working hours? What are my extra benefits besides wages? What holidays willl have off? Will I have enough time to hang out with my friends or pursue my hobbies?”Withquestions like these, however, when we focus on our leisure hours instead of our working hours,we may be prevented from seeing a much greater opportunity. Good work attitudes,habits, and skills are learned through successful work experiences.Let me illustrate. On the ranch (牧场) where I grew up, the cows had to be milked before dawn every day. When I was just 10 years old, I would enter our barnyard where there were about 10 to 12 cows waiting for me to let them into the milking barn. My mother and father used to say out loud to the cows,"Good morning. It’s good to see you!" I have to confess that as a young boy I didn 'tfeel quite the same way toward the cows. After each cow was milked, I poured the milk from the pail into a 10-gallon can. Each canweighed about 80 pounds when full. It made me stretch my young muscles as 1 carried them to the road for the dairy to pick up. My father and mother quite frequently helped me with milking the cows. I remember myfather and mother continued to milk until they were in their late 80s.But Father didn't milk thecows because he had to; he milked them because they needed to be milked. There is a difference. To him,these animals were not just cows -- they were Big Blackie and Bossie and Sally andBetsy. He wanted them to be content. He always said that contented cows give good milk. To myfather, milking cows -- as unsophisticated as it may seem —was not an extra burden; it was anopportunity. Milking was not a job for him; it was a service. This philosophy is something that helped me as I grew up. It helped me to find out that allhonest work is honorable. Within a few years I realized that routinely performing these choresactually began to give me a sense of confidence and empowerment. I took pride in my work. Wecontrol our own attitudes towards work. Self-confidence and empowerment can serve us wellin the classroom or on Wall Street. Instead of thinking of our daily work as an extra burden, we should think of it as anopportunity. That's just the way my father taught me to feel about the cows. Those teachingshave remained with me all my life, and I continue to visit the ranch and its memories as ofte as possible.