Ms X leaves home at 6:00 in the morning.She spends an hour and a half in the traffic a

Ms X leaves home at 600 in the morningShe spends an hour and a half in the traffic and arrives at her workplace at 800At lunchtimeshe stands in a queue and in the end finds there are no sandwiches left! On the way home she is in the traffic again and arrives home tired at 7:00There is just time to cook something simplewatch all hour of TV and then have an early night

Ms Y gets up at 700 and goes for a run or does some exerciseAfter breakfastshe sits down to work at 830 in the office at the top of her houseHalfway through the morningsite has a short breakmakes a cup of tea and drinks it in the gardenShe takes a half hour lunch breakand has a salad in the kitchenwhile she listens to the radioShe finishes work at 430 and goes for a walk in the parkThen she cooks something for the family before they arrive home

The first example is the old style of working--all travel and tirednessThe second kind of working day is already with usMany workers now work at home either two days a week or full-timeThis is possible because of modern machines like fax and PCspersonal computers).Most offices these days are paperless placesCompany workers send e-mail documents to each other instead of heavy reportsThey can design an advertisement and e-mail it to their co-worker同事at home or workplace

At present it is expensive for some companies to provide offices for all workersThe offices are used less than a quarter of the time59________In fact it is cheaper to buy PCs and office machines for their home workers

1How is life different for Ms X and Ms Y?

AMs Y has less time for exercise than Ms X

BMS X works harder than Ms Y

CMs X spends more time traveling than Ms Y

DMs Y does not enjoy her lunch break as much as Ms X

2What does the passage say about teleworking远程工作?

AIt has not been popular so far

BIt needs some special equipment

CPeople must work at home

DIt is mainly for designing advertisements

3The passage tells as that ________

Aoffices should be made better use of

Bthe company saves money if people work at home

Cpeople no longer like working in offices

DPCs and office machines are getting cheaper

4Which sentence suits适合the blank in the last paragraph best?

Abut the companies have to light them and heat them

Bso the companies have to let their workers stay longer

Cand many people work there

Dand have little equipment

5What does the writer want to tell us through this passage?

AThe world is unfair                               BKnowledge is important

CE-mails will be more and more popular      DThe working style is developing

答案

CBBAD

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