4 Cool Jobs

CHAPTER 1 What's the Right Job for You? MAYBE YOU HAVE A JOB OR MAYBE YOU ARE THINKING OF JOBS YOU CAN DO. HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. Head or Hands? In some jobs you only think and speak and write. In other jobs you have to use your hands: you make things or make things work. In other jobs you design things on a computer. Here or There? Some people like to come home every night from work. Others enjoy traveling. They go to different countries and stay in hotels. But sometimes these people have to stay in difficult and dangerous places. Air, Sea, or Land? Do you like flying in a plane? Do you like to be in or on water? Do you like big cities, small towns, or the country? Do you like hot places like deserts, or cold places like snowy mountains? People work in all kinds of places. Safe or Dangerous? Many people go to work every day and they come home— safe. That's true, but not for all people. Some jobs are dangerous. Some people do these jobs because they have to. There are no other jobs for them. Other people like doing dangerous jobs.

第一章什么工作最适合你？ 也许你有一份工作，或者你正在考虑你能做的工作。 这里有一些事情需要考虑。 头还是手？在一些工作中，你只需要思考、说话和写作。 在其他工作中，你必须用你的手：你制造东西或让东西工作。 在其他工作中，你在电脑上设计东西。 这里还是那里？有些人喜欢每天晚上下班回家。 其他人喜欢旅行。他们去不同的国家，住在酒店里。 但有时这些人不得不呆在困难和危险的地方。 空中、海上还是陆地？你喜欢坐飞机吗？ 你喜欢在水里还是在水上？ 你喜欢大城市、小城镇还是乡村？ 你喜欢像沙漠这样炎热的地方，还是像雪山这样寒冷的地方？ 人们在各种各样的地方工作。 安全还是危险？许多人每天去上班，平安回家。 这是事实，但并不是所有人都如此。 有些工作很危险。有些人做这些工作是因为他们不得不做。 没有其他工作适合他们。 其他人喜欢做危险的工作。

CHAPTER 2 Head or Hands? SOME PEOPLE MAKE THINGS WITH THEIR HANDS; OTHERS USE THEIR HEADS. Ice Sculptor The city of Harbin is in China. In winter, it's very cold and people make things with ice and snow. Ma Yue comes from Harbin. He's a famous ice sculptor. But Ma Yue doesn't only work in Harbin. In 2010, people in Finland wanted to open an ice sculpture park, called Icium. Ma Yue took 60 ice sculptors there and they made a park. There are also ice parks in many other countries. In February, you can visit ice parks in Sapporo in Japan or in Quebec in Canada. In Quebec you can stay in an ice hotel. You can sleep on an ice bed, drink from an ice glass, and look out ice windows. It's all ice! Roller Coaster Designer Do you like roller coasters? Some people do, some don't. Kent Seko really likes them. Roller coasters are his job— he designs them. In 1989 he helped to design a big roller coaster in Ohio, USA. This was the first roller coaster in the world to go up 60 meters. Now the highest roller coasters in the world go up 139 meters. Not all roller coaster designers want to ride on their roller coasters, but Kent does. He really enjoys it. When one of his new roller coasters opens, he's the first person on it. He loves it, and he doesn't have to pay!

第二章头还是手？有些人用手做东西；其他人则用他们的头脑。 哈尔滨在中国。 在冬天，天气很冷，人们用冰和雪做东西。 马悦来自哈尔滨。他是一位著名的冰雕家。 但马跃并不只在哈尔滨工作。 2010年，芬兰人想要开设一个名为Icium的冰雕公园。 马跃带了60个冰雕师去那里，他们建了一个公园。 在许多其他国家也有冰雪公园。 二月，你可以参观日本札幌或加拿大魁北克的冰雪公园。 在魁北克你可以住在冰旅馆里。 你可以睡在冰床上，用冰杯子喝水，从冰窗往外看。 全是冰！过山车设计师你喜欢过山车吗？ 有些人喜欢，有些人不喜欢。 Kent Seko真的很喜欢它们。 过山车是他的工作——他设计过山车。 1989年，他在美国俄亥俄州帮助设计了一个大型过山车。 这是世界上第一个高达60米的过山车。 现在世界上最高的过山车高达139米。 不是所有的过山车设计师都想坐他们的过山车，但肯特确实想。 他真的很喜欢。当他的新过山车开放时，他是第一个上去的人。 他喜欢，而且他不用付钱！

Make-up for the Dead Carrie Bayer is good with make-up, but she only works with dead people. "Some years ago," she said, "I went to a funeral. I looked at the dead woman's make-up and I thought, "I can do that better.' I was 33 years old, but I left my job. I went back to school and learned about make-up." And how does Carrie feel about the dead people? "I enjoy spending time with them, and getting to know them in a way. Also, I think I help their families at a difficult time." Robot Maker Amy Kukulya has a really great job. She works with underwater robots. She uses them to learn about the ocean. She works with a robot that is very fast and can tell her a lot of things about the ocean. When Amy was a child, she loved playing in boats and catching fish. And now she's often on the water. She never thinks it's boring. Every day is different. Sometimes she makes parts for robots in Massachusetts. Other times she goes to Hawaii and works underwater. All the time she's learning and asking questions.

凯莉·拜尔擅长化妆，但她只和死人打交道。 “几年前，”她说，“我参加了一个葬礼。 我看着死者的妆容，心想：“我可以画得更好。”我当时33岁，但我辞掉了工作。 我回到学校学习化妆。” 凯莉对那些死人是什么感觉？ “我喜欢花时间和他们在一起，在某种程度上了解他们。 此外，我认为我在困难时期帮助了他们的家人。” 机器人制造者艾米·库库利亚有一份很棒的工作。 她和水下机器人一起工作。 她用它们来了解海洋。 她和一个机器人一起工作，这个机器人非常快，可以告诉她很多关于海洋的事情。 当艾米还是个孩子的时候，她喜欢在船上玩耍和捕鱼。 现在她经常在水上。 她从不觉得无聊。 每天都不一样。有时她在马萨诸塞州为机器人制造零件。 其他时候，她会去夏威夷，在水下工作。 她一直在学习和问问题。

CHAPTER 3 Playing Games DO YOU LIKE PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES? WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH THEM? Ryan Shwayder is a game designer. It can be an interesting job, but it isn't all fun. He has to work many hours and he doesn't make a very good salary. He has to play many games, but he doesn't enjoy all of the games. Also, he has to think about the games. Why is this one good and this one not so good? And he has to read many books about games. Another job with computer games is a game tester. Maybe you think it's a great job, but it's really not so easy. A game tester doesn't play a lot of different games every day. Game testers work on one game until it is ready for the factory. So they have to play again and again, and they have to find the problems. They have to talk to other game testers. Do you think it's a great job now? Some people work with games from home. They are called gold farmers. In some computer games, players can make money. This isn't real money, it's game money. They can use it to buy things in the game. Gold farmers play a computer game for many hours to make a lot of game money. But they don't spend their game money to buy things in shops. It's gold to them because other players, all over the world, buy the game money from them for US dollars! Then the other players spend it in the games they play.

第三章玩游戏你喜欢玩电脑游戏吗？ 你愿意和他们一起工作吗？ Ryan Shwayder是一名游戏设计师。 这是一份有趣的工作，但也不全是乐趣。 他不得不工作很长时间，而且他的薪水也不高。 他必须玩很多游戏，但他并不是喜欢所有的游戏。 此外，他还必须考虑比赛。 为什么这个好而这个不好？ 他必须读很多关于游戏的书。 电脑游戏的另一个工作是游戏测试员。 也许你认为这是一份很棒的工作，但它真的不那么容易。 游戏测试员不会每天玩很多不同的游戏。 游戏测试员一直在测试一款游戏，直到它准备好投入生产。 所以他们必须一遍又一遍地玩，他们必须找到问题。 他们必须与其他游戏测试员交流。 你觉得现在这份工作不错吗？ 有些人在家玩游戏。 他们被称为淘金者。 在一些电脑游戏中，玩家可以赚钱。 这不是真钱，这是游戏钱。 他们可以用它来购买游戏中的东西。 淘金者玩电脑游戏数小时以赚取大量游戏钱。 但他们不会用游戏钱在商店里买东西。 这对他们来说是黄金，因为世界各地的其他玩家都用美元从他们那里购买游戏钱！然后其他玩家把钱花在自己玩的游戏中。

CHAPTER 4 Jobs in Different Places DO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL TO INTERESTING PLACES? SKI IN A HOT COUNTRY, OR WORK IN A SUBMARINE? THEN READ ON. Location Scout Look at the picture. This is from the movie, World War Z. This part of the movie is in Philadelphia— but this isn't Philadelphia. It's Glasgow, in Scotland. The movie makers came to Glasgow and changed it into an American city. They changed the Scottish street signs for American ones. But why did they do this? Why not make the movie in Philadelphia? Because sometimes it's cheaper or easier to make a film in another place. Do you know this place? This is Hogwart's School in the Harry Potter films. Or is it? It's really Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England. Location scouts travel all around the world to find good places for movies. Cruise Ship Waitress Gabriele Petrauskiené comes from Lithuania. Here she speaks about her job. "I'm a waitress on a cruise ship. It's hard work 70 hours a week. There are 1000 people on the ship and they eat a lot of food. I work six days and seven evenings a week. But I enjoy it because the ship goes to interesting places— the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Hawaii, and different parts of Europe. I visit nice places and see a lot of new things. On the ship we have parties, movies, and dance nights. Also, you can go to classes and learn lots of things, like new languages."

第四章不同地方的工作你想去有趣的地方旅行吗？ 在炎热的国家滑雪，还是在潜艇上工作？ 接着往下读。看这张照片。 这是电影《僵尸世界大战》里的台词。 电影的这一部分发生在费城——但这里不是费城。 这是苏格兰的格拉斯哥。 电影制片人来到格拉斯哥，把它变成了一个美国城市。 他们把苏格兰的路牌换成了美国的。 但他们为什么要这么做呢？为什么不在费城拍电影呢？ 因为有时在另一个地方拍电影更便宜或更容易。 你知道这个地方吗？这是哈利波特电影里的霍格沃茨学校。 是吗？其实是英国诺森伯兰郡的阿尼克城堡。 外景探员走遍世界各地寻找拍摄电影的好地方。 游轮服务员Gabriele petruskien<s:1>来自立陶宛。 这里她谈到了她的工作。 “我是一艘游轮上的服务员。 一周70个小时的辛苦工作。 船上有1000人，他们吃了很多食物。 我每周工作六天七个晚上。 但我喜欢它，因为这艘船会去一些有趣的地方——加勒比海、巴哈马群岛、夏威夷和欧洲的不同地区。 我参观了很多好地方，看到了很多新事物。 在船上我们有派对、电影和舞会。 而且，你可以去上课，学习很多东西，比如新的语言。”

Cook on a submarine Australia has three cooks on some of its submarines. They work together in a very small kitchen and make three big meals a day for up to 58 people. They have to travel a lot, and they can be away from home for six months. Food is very important for people on a submarine because life there can be really boring. It's not an easy job, but it pays well. The cooks make a salary up to 200,000 Australian dollars a year— that's about $205,000. The only person on the submarine to make a bigger salary is the captain! Snowmaker Mark Simpson is a snowmaker. He works for Acer Snowmec in England. "We make places to ski inside," Mark says. "It really is snow it looks like snow and feels the same as snow in the Alps. And we can make many different kinds of snow." Mark goes to different countries, and sometimes he makes snow in the desert! "People from cold countries know about snow. But in a hot country, snow is something new. People don't know about it. It's interesting for the adults, but the children really love it."

澳大利亚的一些潜艇上有三名厨师。 他们在一个非常小的厨房里一起工作，每天为多达58人做三顿大餐。 他们必须经常旅行，他们可能会离开家六个月。 食物对潜艇上的人来说非常重要，因为那里的生活可能真的很无聊。 这不是一份轻松的工作，但薪水很高。 这些厨师的年薪高达20万澳元，约合0.5万澳元。 潜艇上唯一薪水比他高的人是船长！马克·辛普森是一个造雪者。 他在英国的宏碁公司工作。 “我们在室内建造了滑雪场地，”马克说。 “这真的是雪，看起来像雪，摸起来和阿尔卑斯山的雪一样。 我们可以造出许多不同种类的雪。” 马克去不同的国家，有时他在沙漠里造雪！“来自寒冷国家的人知道雪。 但在炎热的国家，雪是新鲜事物。 人们不知道这件事。 这对成年人来说很有趣，但孩子们真的很喜欢。”