中石油职称英语考试2013版 通用选读.doc

PAGE PAGE 1 中石油 职称英语考试2013版 通用选读 1.The Value of Time 时间的价值 1.Time says the proverb is money. This means that every moment well-spent may put some money intoour pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either produce some useful and important piece of workwhich will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as toenable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thus be no doubt that time isconvertible into money. Let those who think nothing of wasting time remember this; let them remember thatan hour misspe