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Part-Time Store Associate | |
Location | 155 Hillwood Ave Falls Church VA 22046 |
Duties | ● Process customer purchases, perform general cleaning duties, and keep stock shelves and merchandise (货物) displays clean and neat; ● Greet and receive customers in a welcoming manner; ● Respond to customers’ questions and assist customers with their shopping process; 厦门英语● Cooperate with team members and communicate clearly to the store management team; ● Check errors and other general issues; ● Follow the cash policies and procedures to minimize losses; |
PhysicalDemands | ● Ability to stock merchandise from store receiving to shelving; ● Ability to place products, weighing up to 45 pounds (about 20 kilograms), on shelves at various heights; ● Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, push, pull, lift, carry goods and walk about the store; |
Qualifications | ● Provide polite and immediate customer service; ● Operate a cash register efficiently and accurately; ● Ability to safely and properly operate equipment, including electric/manual hand jacks (千斤顶), floor scrubbers, and cardboard balers (打包机); ●Perform general cleaning duties to company standards; ● Interpret and apply company policies and procedures; ● Excellent communication skills; ● Work both independently and within a team environment; ● Ability to say organized, give attention to detail, and follow instructions in a professional and efficient manner; ● Meet any sate and local requirements for handling and selling alcoholic beverages; |
Education | ● High School Diploma or GED; ● Prior work experience in a retail environment preferred; |
Salary | ● $15～$18 per hour(more than 10 hours but fewer than 30 hours per week); ● Supplemental pay types: Bonus pay (depending on your sales but not less than $30 per week). |
1．What belongs to a responsibility of a part-time store associate?
A．Help customers with shopping.
B．Respond to online customer orders.
C．Deliver groceries to customers’ homes.
D．Adjust the cash policies and procedures.
2．What is essential for working as a store associate?
A．Being able to drink a lot. B．Having one-year related experience.
C．Being physically strong and flexible. D．Being able to speak English fluently.
3．How much could a part-time store associate make at least within a week?
A．$570. B．$480. C．$210. D．$180.
After their three children grew up and left home, Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, year after year, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders (空中滑翔) launch themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return to earth. “Some day I’d love to do that,” Thompson told Kenneth.
But there was always so much to do in Interlaken. So she continued to watch the gliders take flight and land. Kenneth died in 2005. Eleven years later, and three decades after those walking holidays, Thompson finally took to the skies herself, in a paraglider with an instructor. Thompson was 80.
Recently, Thompson heard from an instructor that grown men, when airborne, sometimes cry and beg to be brought down. But what she remembers is “feeling free. You feel weightless. It’s quite windy. It blows you around. You sail along and look around you, and see all the toy houses down below. You feel like you are up in heaven somewhere there, watching everyone down below.”
Thirty years seems a long time to hold on to a dream. “It was,” she says. Why did it take so long? “I wanted to do it, but I felt somebody should benefit from it.” She did not think of just enjoying the experience? “I don’t think so. There had to be a cause at the end of it all,” she says. With her first paraglide, she raised ￡1,500 for Moorfields eye hospital in London, most of it with the aid of social clubs run by the Presbyterian church she regularly attends.
Is she scared of getting older? “Fear? No. People say: ‘Isn’t getting old awful?’ I say: ‘No. You are free to do more things that you want to do.”
Thompson felt no fear paragliding. “I mean, you sort of say to yourself: Well, if anything happens to me now, I’m OK. People might worry about falling, it being the end of them. But that didn’t bother me at all. When it’s your time, it’s your time. No matter where you are.”
4．Why didn’t Thompson take up paragliding after her children left home?
A．She was engaged. B．She preferred walking.
C．She was afraid of heights. D．She had to tend her husband.
5．How did Thompson feel when airborne?
A．She lost his direction. B．She was scared to death.
C．She regretted paragliding. D．She had a sense of freedom.
6．Why could Thompson hold on to her dream for three decades?
A．She got support from social clubs. B．She wanted to make it meaningful.
C．She hoped to contribute to the church. D．She had a good cause to experience fun.
7．What’s Thompson’s attitude towards falling?
A．Terrified. B．Helpless. C．Calm. D．Doubtful.
For decades, India’s time zone has been a hotly debated issue. Back in 1884 when time z
ones were officially established, two time zones were used — Bombay Time and Calcutta Time. Indian Standard Time (IST) was introduced in 1906, but Calcutta Time and Bombay Time continued to be maintained after India’s independence in1947, until 1948 and 1955 respectively. The current single time, though a legacy (遗留物) of British rule, is often viewed as a symbol of unity. Yet, not everyone thinks it is a good idea. India stretches 3,000 km from east to west, extending across roughly 30 degrees longitude. This corresponds to a two-hour difference in mean solar time, based on the position of the sun in the sky. Thus, the sun rises nearly two hours earlier in the east than in India’s far west. In Northeastern states, sunrise can be as early as in summer and sunset by in winter, much earlier than the official working hours. This results in great loss of daylight hours and more consumption of electricity, and often reduced productivity.
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