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Think“rock, paper, scissors（剪刀）”is a children’s game? Think again.
Top players a_______the world came together in Toronto to compete(竞争)for a 10,000-Canadian-dollar p__
_____and the title of World Champion(世界冠军).More than 500 players, i__
_____national champions(全国冠军)from Australia,Norway and New Zealand, attended.
The game is often used to make decisions and solve some s______problems.Players hold their fists(拳头) closed and c___
___to three before making a fist(rock),a flat hand (paper)or two fingers(scissors).Paper covers rock,scissors cut paper and rock b__
__scissors.
Players have d_______opinions about the history of the game,but it is commonly b__
____to have been played for centuries in Japan. The Paper Scissors Stone Club opened in England in 1842 and players could play together there. In 1918, the n___
_____ was changed to World RPS Club and its headquarters (总部) moved from London to Toronto.
The world championship started in 2002,and is held o_______ every year.
Maybe you have seen this in schools: Some students study nearly all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much l time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard work is the only way to success. But now they understand that smart work can make them successful, too.
Hard workers don’t m working for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions. “Why should I suffer this?” “Isn’t there a better way to do this?” Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus now. P
in every field is the direct result of “try to find a better way” by smart workers. There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter from someone who c
that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought.
How could empty soapbox go out of the factory? The engineers checked the producing and packing. The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machines let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon worked out a s . He put a large X-ray (X射线) machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapbox. A
teaching the workers how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted.
“Sir, we could have solved the problems in a much simpler and cheaper way.” a worker said.
“Really? How?” “We can put a huge fan near the packing machine. The wind coming from the fan will blow away the empty boxes and leave the other o with soap. There would be no need for an X-ray machine, two computers, and operating by workers.”
See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not only learn from the engineers’ hard work, but also think smart like the workers.
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