If you think about it，work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life．Balance is about stasis：if our lives were ever in balance-parents happy，kids taken care of，work working-then our overriding thought would be to shout "Nobody move!" and pray all would stay perfect forever．This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves．They imply that work is bad，and life is good．And so the challenge，we are told，is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life．
Yet work is not the opposite of life．It is instead a part of life-just as family is，as are friends and community．All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down．The same is true of work．Treat work the same way you do life：by maximizing what you love．
We have interviewed several anesthesiologists （麻醉師） about the thrills they feel in their jobs．One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death．Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients．Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does．
Think of your life's many different activities as threads．Some are black and some are white．But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance．These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love：before you do them，you find yourself looking forward to them；while you're doing them，time speeds up and you find yourself in flow；and after you've done them，you feel energetic．These are your red threads，and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout．
The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job．During the week，any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column "Love"．And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column "Loathe"．By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your "Love" column，which create in you a positive feeling，one that draws you in and lifts you up．
Our goal should be to，little by little，week by week，intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter．Not simply to make us feel better，but so that our colleagues，our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best．
（1）What is the author's attitude towards work-life balance？BB
A．Doubtful．
B．Disapproving．
C．Supportive．
D．Neutral．
（2）The author uses three anesthesiologists as examples toCC．
A．prove people benefit from work
B．indicate doctors take pride in their work
C．show people gain joy from different situations
D．imply doctors reduce the pressure of work successfully
（3）"Red threads" in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities thatAA．
A．a(chǎn)rouse your passion
B．satisfy your desires
C．improve your motivation
D．require your efforts
（4）Which of the following does the author probably agree with？CC
A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life．
B．Recording activities helps create positive feeling．
C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance．
D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work．
【答案】B；C；A；C
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