If you give employees the right to telework, be careful! The very technology that enables working from home could be 1 its value to your company. Although productivity may increase in the short term, working from home may prevent your teams from working 2 .
While remote workers may indeed be happier, more carefree and 3 , that doesn’t mean it’s good for their 4 . A company is more than just the work that needs to be done, plus the workers who are there to do it.
A healthy organization has a 5 that allows the sharing of values and ideas and the 6
of competitive spirit that allows a company to be flexible and creative.
However, working from home can fail to motivate remote workers in the same way as a/an
7 company environment. As a result, companies 8 — despite the increases in productivity and happiness that come with teleworking.
In work environments where co-workers socialize and have 9 lunchtime chats, some real learning gets done. A lot of information 10 takes place, which allows the very same workers to increase their 11 to the organization. There is something 12 about spending the time together, about sharing meals, about 13 ideas, and about asking.
Magical or not, the fact remains that teleworking generally doesn’t work well. As technological change 14 and marketplace pressures increase, companies need to become more flexible and creative, just to keep up.
Strange as it sounds, the very technology that made teleworking a real option is now requiring workers to remain in the 15 .
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解析试题分析:文章大意:远程工作给公司员工带来了很多的方便,但也有其弊端。
【小题1】B 考查动词辨析A. testing测试;B. destroying破坏;C. keeping保存;D. assessing评估;根据文意应为正是能够从家里工作这样的技术会毁坏你公司的价值。
【小题2】A考查副词辨析。A. effectively有效地;B. normally正常地;C. formally正式地;D. separately分离地。虽然在短期内可能会增加生产力,在家中的工作可能会阻止您的团队有效地工作。因此,此题答案选择A选项。
【小题3】C 考查形容词辨析。A. attentive注意的;B. talkative 健谈的;C. productive有成效的;D. sensitive敏感的。虽然远程工作人员的确可能更快乐,更无忧无虑的和多产的。因此,答案选择C选项。
【小题4】B 考查名词辨析。A. workers工人;B. companies公司;C. health健康;D. family家庭。根据前后句多次提及到company,可以得出答案。但并不意味着对其公司好。因此,答案选择B选项。
【小题5】D 考查名词辨析。A. leader领导者;B. rule法则;C. party聚会;D. culture文化。一个健康的组织有一个允许共享的价值观念和思想的文化。答案选择D选项。
【小题6】A 考查短语固定搭配。这里考查短语the sense of competitive spirit竞争意识感。其竞争意识感使得公司更加灵活和具有创造性。因此,此题选择A选项。
【小题7】D 考查形容词辨析。A. independent独立的;B. different不同的;C. special特殊的;D. shared共享的。然而,在家中的工作不能够激励远程工作人员,以相同的方式共享公司的环境。
【小题8】C上下文连串。根据后文中的despite the increases in productivity and happiness that come with teleworking可知这里指公司遭受损失。因此,正确答案为C。
【小题9】B 考查形容词辨析。A. official官方的;B. regular定期的;C. required要求的;D. planned计划的。在工作环境里,同事交往,有定期的午餐聊天,可以获取一些真正的学习。因此,答案选B。
【小题10】A考查动词。exchange information交换信息。大量的信息进行交换,使得其相同的工人增加他们对组织的价值。答案为A。
【小题11】C 考查名词辨析。A. availability有效;B. damage损害;C. value价值;D. disappointment失望;这里指里工人增加他们对组织的价值;因此,答案为C。
【小题12】B考查形容词。A. reasonable合理的;B. magical神奇的;C. psychological心理学的;D. typical典型的。花费时间在一起是一件神奇的事情。
【小题13】A 考查短语固定搭配。这里考查固定短语discuss idea讨论想法。花费时间共享午餐,讨论想法。因此答案为A。
【小题14】C考查动词辨析。A. varies改变;B. differs 不同;C. accelerates加速;D. stops阻止;随着技术变革的加快和市场压力增加,公司需要变得更灵活、 更有创意。答案为C。
【小题15】D 考查名词辨析。A. place地方;B. house家;C. distance远处;D. office办公室;听起来很奇怪,使远程工作真正选择的技术现在要求工人留在办公室。
考点:考查议论文
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
For my daughter's 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn't really have the ____ but we knew how much this band meant to her.
The night before she was like a ____ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to ____ with us, because she couldn't ___. On the night of the ____ it was good to see her so ____ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.
Needless to say when they ____ after midnight, with Tshirts and lots of pictures of the band, ____ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ____. This will be a memory she would ____ forget, and nor would we.
____ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they ___ to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I ____, loving the fact that she had not ____ that quality as she grew up.
Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ____ each. On each present were the words “Because you are the ____ mum/dad in the world”. When we said our thankyous and told her she didn't have to, we asked her ____ she had bought us gifts. Her ____ was simply “Just because I love you”.
This wasn't something ____ from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her ____, and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn't have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was ____ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small ____ made me change my mind.
One day my twoyearold son, ___ at a dozen of “stood” color markerpens, cheered excitedly,“Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ballpens, ____ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ballpens just lay ____. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said ____, “Mummy can't help you.” To my surprise, he wouldn't listen and continued trying... I was dumbfounded by his persistence.
My son's behaviour reminded me of George who was always ____ in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, ____, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised __ about him and ___ us to look up to him as a role model.
One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight?”
“Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.
“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”
“____.”
“Don't you have time to be with your family at all?”
He shook his head slowly and ____ a sigh. “It's not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It's much too ____ to even think about letting go.”
A year later I resigned. The ____ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I've never seen him. But occasionally his aged ____ would come to my mind.
Until that day, ____ knowing why the ballpens couldn't stand up, the twoyearold had ____ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. ___, he already learned to let go of his previous ____ attempts.
In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to ____ them and then decisively let go of them immediately.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
(2013·高考天津卷)As I held my father’s hands one night,I couldn’t help but notice their calluses(老茧)and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ____,including all his struggles.
One summer,I remember,a drought (旱灾) hit Ontario,turning it into a ____ desert.On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ____ from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed,which ___ took twenty minutes.That morning,however,the process didn’t ___ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field,we ____needed twenty dozen.I was completely frustrated and ___.Dropping the basket heavily,I declared, “If the store wants its last twenty dozen,they can pick it themselves!”Dad ____,“Just think,my little girl,only ten dozen left for each of us and then we’re ____.” Such is Dad-whatever problem he ____,he never gives up.
____,the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country.It was a challenging time for everyone,____ Dad remained optimistic.He ____ to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to ___ Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real ____.From dawn to dusk,he works countless hours to___ our family.He always puts our happiness ____ his own,and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games ___ his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and ____,putting others first.
Dad,the life ____ I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father,teacher,friend and,most importantly,my hero.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are ____. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to ____ it. Creativity isn’t always ____ with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time ____ think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.
Making connections This technique involves taking ____ ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words ____ with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ____ to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original ____; you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night.
No limits! Imagine that normal limitations don’t ____. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new ____. If your goal is to learn to ski, ____, you can now practice skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now ____ this to reality. Maybe you can practice skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.
Be someone else! Look at the situation from a ____ point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the ___ in their books. They ask questions: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their ____. The best fishermen think like fish!
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area. My parents ______ the necessities of life but they couldn’t give much more. If I asked my father for a pair of jeans, he would say, “ If you want them, make the money and buy them yourself.” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t ______ them. From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school.
When I ______ from high school, I joined the navy. Soon I was in a boot camp(新兵训练营) at Parris Island, S.C., where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily ______. These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles. Completing these tasks successfully ______ discipline, team-work and responsibility. It didn’t ______ whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the ______ of the company.
I went on to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academic and later became an officer in the navy. The part of my job I ______ most was the consulting(咨询) meetings I ______ with the family members of the men and women in my ______, trying to help them deal with the long periods of ______. These proved popular and word of them spread. Before long I was being asked to give encouraging ______ to business groups, educators and kids across the country.
But I consider the boot camp my first real ______, and my life is still guided by the ______ lessons I learned there. It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to ______ it.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very . Some stories are told they were true. Real people who live in a world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of . When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our -- which is real-- and our imagination-- which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we that we are real and they are . It sounds , but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and 36 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart (远离的);it can keep a 37 with very little effort.
I will give 38 .A few years ago my older brother and l were not getting 39 .We had been close as 40 but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 41 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels: and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 42 our misunderstanding. Then he 43 a small island in the Caribbean and we 44 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to 45 . Rereading the letter, I was 46 by its humor(幽默)and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 47 respected my older brother but 48 he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so 49 . And with that one letter we became friends 50 .
It might never have occurred to 51 to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no 52 . For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to get back in touch. Because we live in an age of 53 communication(通讯), people often 54 that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a 55 . And that is to write.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
There was once a group of young people searching everywhere for happiness but what they got was only annoyance, grief and misery.
So they Socrates for advice on where happiness But giving any answers, Socrates asked them to help with building a first. The group of guys had to the task, laying aside their own business of seeking happiness. It took them a long time to cut down a tall tree, gouging out (挖空) the center. Through painstaking effort, they made a canoe out of the tree. They launched the canoe into a river, and then together in it, singing with .
Socrates asked, “My children, do you have happiness now?” They answered in chorus: “We be happier!” Socrates , “That’s it! you are too busy pursuing something to notice anything bitter, happiness will occur.”
From the story I got to know that happiness hides behind every tiny thing that you are involved in, and that you may only get pleasure through work and creativity.
We may have to pain in our daily life and in the process of happiness. Sometimes we tend to look for happiness in things, like a new car, clothes, etc. True long term happiness, however, comes from within our and spirit. So why not turn suffering into life, and tears into the light in your heart? Only in this way can we make it through and find true happiness.
So my dear friends, just remember happiness is a state of mind and a matter of , and I you all a life of happiness.
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