_考研阅读理解真题英语二
考研阅读理解真题英语二1
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A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys. People art actuallymore stresd at home than at work. Rearchers measured people's cortntlol.Which is it at stress marker. While they were at work and while they were athome and found it higher at what is suppod to be a place of refuge.
“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well asmen have lower levels of stress at work than at home," writes one of therearchers. Sarah Damaske, In fact women say they feel better at work. Shenotes. "it is men not women. Who report being bappicr at home than at work,"Another surpri is that the findings hold true for both tho with childrcn andwithout, but more so for nonparents. This is why pcoplc who work outside thehome have better health.
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What the study doesn't measure is whether people are still doing work whenthey' re at home, whether it is houhold work or work brought home from theoffice. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For womenwho stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who workoutside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-houhold tasks. With theblurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind theworkplace in making adjustments for working women, it' s not surprising thatwomen are more stresd at home.
But it's not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know whatthey're suppod to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they haveto do in order to draw an e. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts inhours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustainingmoola.
On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is thehouhold in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laidout. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for mostof them. Your home colleagues-your fa
mily-have no clear rewards for their labor;they need to be talked into it, or if they' re teenagers, threatened plete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they' re your family. Youcannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.
So it's not surprising that people are more stresd at home. Not only arethe tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
21.According to Pa ragraph 1，most previous su rveys found thathome___________
[A]was an un realistic 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告别昨日
22.According to Damaske， who are likely to be the happiest at home?
[A]Working mothers
[B]Childless husbands俯拾皆是
[C] Childless wives
[D]Working fathers
23 The blurring of working women's roles refers to the factthay___________
[A]they are both bread winners and houwives
[B]their home is also a place for kicking back
[C]there is often much houwork 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心灵小故事
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 ldom clear-cut
[C]houhold tasks are generally more motivating
方珍珠 [D]family labor is often adequately rewarded
考研阅读理解真题英语二2
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What would you do with 590m? This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie,an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed hou inFlorida to collect
the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If shehopes her new-found for tune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, shecould do wor than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dumn and Michael Norton.
The two academics u an array of behavioral rearch to show that themost rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of greatwealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yetsatisfaction with the material purchas wears off fairly quickly what wasonce exciting and new es old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better tospend money on experiences, say Ms Dumn and Mr Norton, like interesting trips,unique meals or even going to the cinema. The purchas often e morevaluable with time-as stories or memories-particularly if they involve feelingmore connected to others.18岁生日祝福
