The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that_____

A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a 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 Damske. 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 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 a 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, marking 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] offered greater relaxation than the workplace

[B] was an ideal place for stress measurement

[C] generated more stress than the workplace

[D] was an unrealistic place for relaxation

22. According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home？

[A] Childless wives

[B] Working mothers

[C] Childless husbands

[D] Working fathers

23.The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that_____

[A] it is difficult for them to leave their office

[B] their home is also a place for kicking back

[C] there is often much housework left behind

[D] they are both bread winners and housewives

24.The word“moola”(Line4,Para4)most probably means_____

[A] skills

[B] energy

[C] earnings

[D] nutrition

25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_____

[A] division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut

[B] home is hardly a cozier working environment

[C] household tasks are generally more motivating

[D] family labor is often adequately rewarded

The marking are so （) that it is difficult to ide ntify.

A、blurring

B、blurred

C、blurs

D、having blur

A.覆盖Covering

B.符号化Symbolization

C.虚化Blurring

D.强化Enhancement

Part 2 Paragraph Organization and Development [40 points]

Questions 6-8 are based on the following task. (15 points)

Read the following paragraphs. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answer A,B or C on the Answer Sheet.

A new generation of communications technologies is upon us. They have changed workplace communication, providing many options for sending a message. (6)_______.

Email is so pervasive in organizations that it has become the default choice for communication. People still call each other at work, but sending an email to someone in the next cubicle is common. It's no surprise that most people believe email is used too often instead of face-to-face communication.

(7)_______.For short messages and quick questions, these channels are ideal, Of course, with smart phones, email may give you an instant response as well, but this varies by organizations and people. As you probably know, the real value of IMing is“presence awareness”-you know someone is available to respond immediately. Although some people consider IM an annoying interruption at work, people who use JM are at the office report fewer disruptions and believe that TM saves time and provides timely, relevant information. One analyst predicts that in the next few years, a vast majority of the employees will use TM as their primary communications tool.

Perhaps the more interesting technologies for communication are social media. Web 2.0, which encourages online interaction, has opened the door for people to participate on the web. This is quite different from the one-way communication of the early Internet, when companies would post brochure-like website for people to consume.

The real value of social media for companies is the opportunity to connect with people online.(8)________.To promote interaction, companies use Web 2.0 technologies, for example, blogs, wikis, video, and social networking sites. These tools are used on the Internet, on a company,5 intranet and on extranets. The Fortune Global 100 companies are using social media actively. Seventy-nine percent are using at least one of four main social platforms-Twitter, videos, Facebook and blogs to communicate with customers. Of these tools, Twitter is the most frequently used and has proved useful for companies.

6. Choose the thesis statement ().

A. Depending on the type of messages, you may choose from a variety of communications technologies.

B. As business tools, mobile technologies are useful for reporting news and connecting with customers.

C. Technology is blurring many forms of communication-oral and written, face-to-face and online.

7. Choose the topic sentence for the paragraph ().

A. Texting has been considered too informal for communicating at work.

B. Instant messaging may be considered rude in front of other people.

C. Instant messaging (IM) and texting are becoming increasingly popular at work.

8. Choose the bridge sentence ().

A. Social networking sites are for people who share common interests.

B. Multi-communication is said to be an effective way.

C. Social media is about the conversation.

We live in a society in there is a lot of talk about 【M1】______

science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of

the people who are equipped with schooling, including

college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are

more ignorant of science as people with comparable 【M2】______

educations in Western Europe.

There are a lot of kids who know everything about

Computers who to build them, how to take them apart,

how to write programs for games. So if you ask them 【M3】______

to explain about the principles of physics that have gone 【M4】______

into creating the computer, you don't have the faintest idea. 【M5】______

The failure to understand science leads to such

things like the neglect of the human creative power. 【M6】______

It also takes rise to a blurring(模糊) of the distinction 【M7】______

between science and technology. Lots of people don't

differ between the two. Science is the production 【M8】______

of new knowledge that can be applied or not, since 【M9】______

technology is the application of knowledge to the

production of some products, machinery or the like.

The two are really very different, and people who have

the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the other.

Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as

soon as it can provide technology, it is not necessarily

harmful. No society has yet learned how to forecast the 【M10】______

consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

【M1】

A.work out

B.work for

C.work in

D.work with

I' m a deputy manager. I()an IT company.

A. work for

B. work about

C. work

A.work of a day

B.a day’s work

C.day's work

D.a-day work

ork here mens ______.work with brins B．work with hnds C．the work tht people dot home D．the work scientists do in the lb

A．work with brains

B．work with hands

C．the work that people do at home

D．the work scientists do in the lab

A.work out

B.work up

C.work in

D.work on