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        　　Text 1 答案
        　　21. D offered greater relaxation than the workplace
        　　22. B childless husbands
        　　23. A they are both bread winners and housewives
        　　24. C earnings
        　　25. B division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut
        　　Text2 答案
        　　26. C miss its original purpose
        　　27. A the problem is solvable
        　　28. C are in need offinancial support
        　　29. D are inexperienced in handling issues at college
        　　30. D colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question
        　　Text3 答案
        　　31. A more emotional
        　　32. C sports culture
        　　33.D strengthen employee loyalty
        　　34.A voices for working women
        　　35. C companies find it to be fundamental
        　　Text4
        　　36. B the increase of voluntary part-time jobs
        　　37. C cannot get their hands on full-time jobs
        　　38. B shows a general tendency of decline
        　　39. B empolyment is no longer a precondition to get insureance
        　　40.A
        　　阅读题题目：
        　　Section II Reading Comprehension
        　　Part A
        　　Directions:
        　　Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by
choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
        　　Text 1
        　　A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually
more stressed at home that at work. Researchers measured people’s cortisol,
which is stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and
found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
        　　“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as
men have lower levels of stress at work than at home,” writes one of the
researchers, Sarah Damaske. In fact women even say they feel better at work, she
notes, “It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.”
Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and
without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the
home have better health.
        　　What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when
they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the
office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women
who stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work
outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the
blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the
workplace in making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that
women are more stressed at home.
        　　But it’s not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what
they’re supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have
to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in
hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining
moola.
        　　On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the
household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid
out. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most
of them. Your home colleagues- your family- have no clear rewards for their
labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened with
complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they’re your family. You
cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.
        　　So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are
the tasks apparently infinite, the co- workers are much harder to motivate.
        　　21. According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that
home_______
        　　[A] was an unrealistic place for relaxation
        　　[B] generated more stress than the workplace
        　　[C] was an ideal place for stress measurement
        　　[D] offered greater relaxation than the workplace
        　　22. According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
        　　[A] Working mothers
        　　[B] Childless husbands
        　　[C] Childless wives
        　　[D] Working fathers
        　　23. The blurring of working women’s roles refers to the fact
thay_______
        　　[A] they are both bread winners and housewives
        　　[B] their home is also a place for kicking back
        　　[C] there is often much housework left behind
        　　[D] it is difficult for them to leave their office
        　　24. The word “moola”(Line 4, Para 4) most probably means_______
        　　[A] energy
        　　[B] skills
        　　[C] earnings
        　　[D] nutrition
        　　25. The home front differs from the workplace in that_______
        　　[A] home is hardly a cozier working environment
        　　[B] division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut
        　　[C] household tasks are generally more motivating
        　　[D] family labor is often adequately rewarded

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        　　Text2
        　　For years, studies have found that first-generation college students- those
who do not have a parent with a college degree- lag other students on a range of
education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates
are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if
they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for
decades to recruit more of them. This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting
first- generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that
higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” ab
achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of
a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
        　　But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential
solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a
one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap
(measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other
students.
        　　The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their
findings are based on a study involving 147 students ( who completed the
project) at an unnamed private university. First generation was defined as not
having a parent with a four-year college degree. Most of the first-generation
students(59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for
undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of
the students wit at least one parent with a four-year degree.
        　　Their thesis- that a relatively modest intervention could have a big
impact- was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking
not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues
that face most college students. They cite past research by several authors to
show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement
gap.
        　　Many first- generation students “struggle to navigate the middle-class
culture of higher education, learn the ‘rules of the game,’ and take advantage
of college resources,” they write. And this becomes more of a problem when
collages don’t talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different
groups of students. Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how
social class can affect students ’educational experience, many first-generation
students lack sight about why they are struggling and do not understand how
students’ like them can improve.
        　　26. Recruiting more first- generation students has_______
        　　[A] reduced their dropout rates
        　　[B] narrowed the achievement gao
        　　[C] missed its original purpose
        　　[D] depressed college students
        　　27. The author of the research article are optimistic because_______
        　　[A] the problem is solvable
        　　[B] their approach is costless
        　　[C] the recruiting rate has increased
        　　[D] their finding appeal to students
        　　28. The study suggests that most first- generation students______
        　　[A] study at private universities
        　　[B] are from single-parent families
        　　[C] are in need of financial support
        　　[D] have failed their collage
        　　29. The author of the paper believe that first-generation
students_______
        　　[A] are actually indifferent to the achievement gap
        　　[B] can have a potential influence on other students
        　　[C] may lack opportunities to apply for research projects
        　　[D] are inexperienced in handling their issues at college
        　　30. We may infer from the last paragraph that_______
        　　[A] universities often reject the culture of the middle-class
        　　[B] students are usually to blame for their lack of resources
        　　[C] social class greatly helps enrich educational experiences
        　　[D]colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question
        　　Text3
        　　Even in traditional offices, “the lingua franca of corporate America has
gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years
ago,” said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. She started spinning
off examples. “If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we
would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion. There
were goals, there were strategies, there were objectives, but we didn’t talk
about energy; we didn’t talk about passion.”

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        　　Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabulary is very
“team”-oriented—and not by coincidence. “Let’s not forget sports—in
male-dominated corporate America, it’s still a big deal. It’s not explicitly
conscious; it’s the idea that I’m a coach, and you’re my team, and we’re in this
together. There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies, but most
think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win.”
        　　These terms are also intended to infuse work with meaning—and, as Khurana
points out, increase allegiance to the firm. “You have the importation of
terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit
organizations and religious organizations: Terms like vision, values, passion,
and purpose,” said Khurana.
        　　This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated
amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance. The “mommy wars” of the
1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can’t
have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, whose title has become a
buzzword in its own right. Terms like unplug, offline, life-hack, bandwidth, and
capacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home. But
if your work is your “passion,” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it,
even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids
are in bed.
        　　But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it,
but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly
absorb it. As Nunberg said, “You can get people to think it’s nonsense at the
same time that you buy into it.” In a workplace that’s fundamentally indifferent
to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you
relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.
        　　31. According to Nancy Koehn,office language has become_____
        　　[A] more emotional
        　　[B] more objective
        　　[C] less energetic
        　　[D] less strategic
        　　32. “team”-oriented corporate vocabulary is closely related to_______
        　　[A] historical incidents
        　　[B] gender difference
        　　[C] sports culture
        　　[D] athletic executives
        　　33.Khurana believes that the importation of terminology aims to______
        　　[A] revive historical terms
        　　[B] promote company image
        　　[C] foster corporate cooperation
        　　[D] strengthen employee loyalty
        　　34.It can be inferred that Lean In________
        　　[A] voices for working women
        　　[B] appeals to passionate workaholics
        　　[C] triggers dcbates among mommies
        　　[D] praises motivated employees
        　　35.Which of the following statements is true about office speak?
        　　[A] Managers admire it but avoid it
        　　[B] Linguists believe it to be nonsense
        　　[C] Companies find it to be fundamental
        　　[D] Regular people mock it but accept it
        　　Text 4
        　　Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported
for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good
news. And they were right. For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a
decent pace. We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but
at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.
        　　However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was
largely overlooked. There was a big jump in the number of people who report
voluntarily working part-time. This figure is now 830,000(4.4 percent) above its
year ago level.
        　　Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare, it is worth making an
important distinction. Many people who work part-time jobs actually want
full-time jobs. They take part-time work because this is all they can get. An
increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been
down. Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the
recession, but it is down by 640,000(7.9 percent) from its year ago level.
        　　We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time
employment because people tell us. The survey used by the Labor Department asks
people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week. If the answer is
“yes,” they are classified as working part-time. They survey then asks whether
they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less
than full time or because they had no choice. They are only classified as
voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work
less than 35 hours a week.

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        　　The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the
main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For
many people, especially those with serious health conditions of family members
with serious health conditions, before Obamacare the only way to get insurance
was through a job that provided health insurance.
        　　However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get
insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously
have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to
cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is no longer a link
between employment and insurance.
        　　36. Which part of the jobs picture was neglected?
        　　A. The prospect of a thriving job market.
        　　B. The increase of voluntary part-time jobs.
        　　C. The possibility of full employment.
        　　D. The acceleration of job creation.
        　　37. Many people work part-time because they
        　　A. prefer part-time jobs to full-time jobs
        　　B. feel that is enough to make ends meet
        　　C. cannot get their hands on full-time jobs
        　　D. haven’t seen the weakness of the market
        　　38. Involuntary part-time employment in the US
        　　A. is harder to acquire than one year ago
        　　B. shows a general tendency of decline
        　　C. satisfies the real need of the jobless
        　　D. is lower than before the recession
        　　39. It can be learned that with Obamacare, __________.
        　　A. it is no longer easy for part-timers to get insurance
        　　B. employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance
        　　C. it is still challenging to get insurance for family members
        　　D. full-time employment is still essential for insurance.
        　　40. The text mainly discusses____________.
        　　A. employment in the US
        　　B. part-timer classification
        　　C. insurance through Medicaid
        　　D. Obamacare’s trouble
        [b]