You know the saying “You’re as young as you feel." Well, there may be some truth to that, according to researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist who studies how the mind influences the body, and colleagues reviewed the scientific literature for evidence that a person’s perception of their age might influence their health. They published their results in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
In one study that Langer led, 47 women had their hair done. The women who thought their new hairdos made them look younger did look younger to objective observers, who were shown before-and-after pictures. The women who thought they looked younger also showed a drop in blood pressure. Another study involving 4,421 men found that those who became bald at a relatively young age were more likely to get cancer and heart disease than men who did not. Similarly, another study involving 2,017 men found that those who lost their hair early were more likely to develop heart disease. “We believe that the feelings associated with being older than one’s real age account for some of these health outcomes,” the researchers wrote.
The researchers also described studies that found that women who had children later in life were more likely to be healthier and live longer than those who had children early, which they attributed to the fact that these mothers tend to spend more time with younger women. Similarly, people who marry younger partners tend to live longer than those who marry older partners, according to other studies.
Taken together, the research “supports the general mind-body hypothesis (假说) that when a younger mind is prepared, a younger body can accompany it.” While the mechanism(机制) remains unclear, the researchers figured that suggestions associated with aging can “make one unconsciously or consciously aware of old age and set in motion a series of physiological processes that can have real effects on short-term and long-term health."
1. What’s the author’s attitude towards the research results?| A．Negative. | B．Indifferent. |
| C．Supportive. | D．Objective. |
| A．Blood pressure is highly related to hairdos. |
| B．Getting cancer or heart disease is the cause of hair losing. |
| C．Feeling older than real age may be tied to health problems. |
| D．The women who love hairdos look younger than those don’t. |
| A．often staying with younger people can benefit people's health |
| B．the younger one of a couple lives much longer |
| C．a younger mother is more likely to live longer |
| D．people who want to live longer need to marry |
| A．Getting bald too early is not good for health |
| B．People’s feeling of their age may have an effect on their own health |
| C．Feeling younger to a couple is very important to their health |
| D．Women had better give birth later in their life |
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【推荐1】British men are abandoning（抛弃，放弃）their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey showed. When it comes to strong emotion, the once serious British are now happy to shed tears quite openly.
“Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure,” said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Center which took the emotional temperature of Britain. “Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried,” the head of the independent research group said.
Long gone is the “No Tears — We’re British” time when emotion was considered distinctly bad form. “In our survey of 2,000 people, very few people in their forties of fifties had seen their father cry. Now it is twice as many,” he told reporters. “Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly acceptable.” Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a sad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings.
From the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve（含蓄缄默）, laughing at “excitable foreigners” who show no self-control.
Marsh argued the divide was still there: “We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions.
“But we are clearly changing. What we take as typical British reserve has significantly faded”
Women’s battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect — both in the workplace and at home. “Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting（相互影响）with women on equal terms much more than a generation ago. They have to relate to the opposite sex. Women become more man-like and men become more female. That transfers into the work place too,” Marsh said.
1. The underlined phrase wear their hearts on their sleeves means ________.| A．wear their sleeves properly | B．express their feeling openly |
| C．put their heart into their work | D．have a heart-to-heart discussion |
| A．natural | B．sensible |
| C．unacceptable | D．important |
| A．over a sad film | B．over self-pity |
| C．at wedding | D．at graduation |
【推荐2】It was a cold and wet night, I had just left a local club to travel home when I lost control of my car. I crashed into a car, then hit a tree. The force was so great that is knocked the parked car several meters forwards. I was knocked out cold. Worse still, I had no idea that a fire had started under the engine of my car. It then set the tree on fire.
Driving behind me was a young man, who I later found out was called Jared. He saw the accident occur and stopped to help me out of the burning car. He put his own life in danger when he got into the back seat to try to undo my seat belt. This wasn’t easy because I’d hit the car on my driver’s side and my seat belt was squeezed into the console (操纵台).
With my seat belt undone, Jared then hit open the driver’s window to drag me out as I had still not regained consciousness (意识). He bravely did this while my car and the tree were burning. Woken by the crash, the homeowners came out to investigate. Jared told them to ring emergency services. I was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a serious condition. I eventually woke up a day later.
I owe my life to Jared and I consider him a friend due to the special bound. Jared says that although the events of that night initially shocked him, he never once hesitated to help. In addition, he doesn’t believe that he did anything special.
1. What happened to the author in the crash?| A．He was knocked out of his car. |
| B．He was knocked unconscious. |
| C．He felt cold because of bleeding. |
| D．He climbed on the tree to escape fire. |
| A．To unfasten the author’s seat belt. |
| B．To get the author out of the car. |
| C．To help the author drive the car safely. |
| D．To put out the burning fire in the car. |
| A．A narrow escape from death | B．A courageous crash rescue |
| C．Jared, my best friend | D．A frightening car fire |
【推荐3】My mother-in-law left us an unexpected and priceless gift. After she died, my husband and his sister were going through the contents of her house when they discovered every letter that we had written her during our 46-year marriage. She also kept all the letters that my mother had written to her over the years.
During the pandemic(大流行病), I've had time to go through these letters. I read of our early married life, our struggle to have children and, especially, the progress of our three children from birth to adulthood. I began writing all these details for my children, and now they have details about when they were small. I discovered much that I had forgotten.
To read the letters written by my mother to my husband's mother is a gift. I wish that I had saved my mother’s letters to me, but now I have these letters that tell me things about my own mother that I never knew. I see that Mom and Mamma shared their great love for us, their children, and for our children, their grandchildren.
I come from a long line of letter writers and was trained to stay in touch with our parents. My grandparents loved to receive letters from across the ocean. When I was away on a student exchange in 1970, my mother told me that my grandfather kept my airmail letters in his shirt pocket and read them daily. Knowing this, I have tried my best to write to our two families regularly.
To all of you who write to me, I thank you. The handwritten word is a powerful tool of friendship; it connects us together.
Perhaps the greatest gift that these letters have given me is to see how much my husband's parents valued our letters to them. The letters helped her know her grandchildren and feel like part of our lives. I shall file them for my children so that they can read the events of our lives and know that they, too, were treasured.
Keep writing to those you love. Those letters are our greatest gifts to each other.
1. What did the author do after she read the letters?| A．She had a talk with her mother. |
| B．She passed on the letters to her children. |
| C．She required her children to write letters regularly. |
| D．She wrote down details about her children's childhood. |
| A．How the author stayed in touch with her parents. |
| B．What handwritten letters mean to the author. |
| C．What inspired the author to keep writing letters. |
| D．How the author's grandfather influenced her. |
| A．They help us make new friends. |
| B．They allow us to practice writing skills. |
| C．They strengthen emotional exchanges. |
| D．They improve our hands-on abilities. |
| A．Unforgettable gifts | B．Parents love |
| C．Family letters | D．Handwritten memories |
【推荐1】Tobacco has long been recognized as a huge health threat. It is known to cause lung and heart problems to many long-term users. According to the World Health Organization, 3,000,000 people die early each year because of tobacco use, including 890,000 deaths from second-hand smoke exposure.
E-cigarettes, an alternative (替代品) to smoking, have become popular. Also known as vaporizers (汽化器), they are electric devices that heat liquid nicotine into a vapor that can he taken in. This vapor is less harmful to inhale than smoke. For example, it does not produce tar (焦油), which can build up in a smoker’s lungs. Inhaling vapor - called vaping - is not without its own risks, however. Exposure to nicotine during youth can lead to addiction and cause long-term harm to brain development. The vapor may also contain harmful things. The Center for Disease Control has linked vaping to more than 805 cases of lung disease and 12 deaths so far in the US.
Vaping has greatly increased in popularity in the US, especially among teenagers. About 37 % of US high school seniors were reported vaping in 2018, up from 28% the year before, Harvard Health Publishing reported. Michael Blaha, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, listed 3 reasons that contributed to vaping’s popularity among young people. First, many teens eve that vaping is less harmful than smoking. Second, ecigarettes have a lower per-use cost than traditional cigrattes. Finally, e-cigarettes come in a wide range of sweet flavors, like apple pie and watermelon.
Blaha is most concerned that more teenagers are taking up vaping as a habit. “It’s one thing if you change from cigarette smoking to vaping. It’s quite another thing to start up nicotine use with vaping. And, it often leads to using traditional tobacco products down the road,” he said.
Governments around the world the divided about vaping. 39 countries and regions have banned the sale of e-cigarettes, according to the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018. Last September, US President Donald Trump said the use of e-cigarettes might be negatively affecting young people and that it should be kept off the market until proved harmless.
1. The underlined word “inhale” in Paragraph 2 probably means “__________”.| A．blow away | B．spread out |
| C．give off | D．breathe in |
| A．E-cigarettes do not produce tar. |
| B．E-cigarettes are not bad to smokers’ health. |
| C．E-cigarettes are less likely to cause nicotine addiction. |
| D．E-cigarettes do more harm to smokers’ brains than their lungs. |
| A．Vaping is allowed at school. |
| B．Vaping makes them look cool. |
| C．They like the liquid taken from fruits. |
| D．They think it’s safer and cheaper than smoking. |
| A．Those who smoke e-cigarettes tend to smoke tobacco later. |
| B．Vaping is more likely to attract teenagers than older people. |
| C．It usually takes a long time for smokers to enjoy e-cigarettes. |
| D．E-cigarettes should be encouraged to replace traditional tobacco products. |
【推荐2】Video conferencing has been around for more than 20 years. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, though, you would find that many people needing to attend a meeting remotely would be calling from a real conference room full of their teammates. Today, we’re routinely holding video conferences that are 100% virtual ones. And this is creating a problem that technology can’t fix.
The problem is that we haven’t evolved socially to the point where we can bear much isolation (孤立状态). So much of our well-being and work productivity is based on physical proximity (接近). The removal of that proximity for any period of time can be severely damaging. One surprising casualty (牺牲品) of social distance is laughter.
Normally people laugh about 18 times per day. And 97% of that time we’re laughing with others — we are 30 times more likely to laugh with others than to laugh alone. Think about it: When was the last time you had a funny thought alone and laughed out loud? And think a bit more: How often do you and your friends laugh at something that is actually funny? Research shows that 80% of what people laugh at is really not that funny.
So why do people laugh? They laugh in order to laugh with others. Just as everyone starts yawning when just one person yawns, most people can’t help but laugh when those around them do. This is why comedy shows on TV have prerecorded laugh tracks.
Laughing in response to other people’s laughing is not just a behavioral phenomenon. When we laugh, our body produces two key chemicals: endorphins which help relieve pain and trigger feelings of pleasure, and dopamine which can improve learning, motivation and attention. In fact, studies show that people can stand 15% more pain simply by laughing for a few minutes beforehand. Laughter is also associated with higher motivation and productivity at work.
In today’s home-alone, virtual team world, this is exactly what you as a team leader should be doing: to make your team members stay healthy and productive, you need to get them to laugh more and stress less.
1. What is the problem mentioned in the first two paragraphs?| A．Decreasing laughter. | B．A distant relationship. |
| C．Removed social distance. | D．Unexpected social evolution. |
| A．Laughing alone is normal. | B．Laughing starts with yawning. |
| C．Laughter comes more in groups. | D．People are likely to laugh at others for fun. |
| A．The mechanism of laughter. | B．The significance of laughter. |
| C．The motivation behind laughter. | D．The chemicals regarding laughter. |
| A．How to foster some laughter. | B．How to increase productivity. |
| C．How to be a good team leader. | D．How to develop better relations within a team. |
【推荐3】Keeping clean is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.
Keep your mouth clean. To keep your mouth clean, you should brush your teeth twice a day.
Wash your hands.
| A．Shower often. |
| B．Washing your hair often can help you keep clean. |
| C．Keeping clean helps to prevent illnesses. |
| D．Washing your hands often will keep you healthy and clean. |
| E．Brushing your teeth helps to avoid dental (牙齿的) health problems. |
| F．Clean your face with your own towel. |
| G．How do you keep yourself clean? |
【推荐1】The El Maestrazgo mountain region of Aragon is one of Spain’s most under-populated areas. There, in the tiny village of Aguaviva, Marcelo Martinez and Gilda Mazzeo, 35-year-old transplants from Buenos Aires, have been learning to embrace their adopted home. “It’s not as isolated as it looks,” says Martinez, pointing out that the nearest town is “only” 30 minutes away. Mazzeo less convinced, but even she is filled with emotion as she recalls how kindly her children were treated when the family first arrived. “They gave us food, clothes, bicycles, everything.”
For the past two years, Aguaviva has been the center of a little-known plan to repopulate Spain’s remote villages with families from Latin America. Settlers are attracted with prepaid flights, jobs, and housing — a ticket out of the poverty that has spread much of their continent. Luis Bricio, Aguaviva’s mayor and founder of the Association of Spanish Towns Against Depopulation, describes his venture as an effort to save places that would otherwise “disappear.” Since the 1950s, reducing birthrates and migration to cities have left Spain with more than 2,000 ghost towns. Many more villages are populated only by handfuls of people in their 80s.
Enter Argentina, a country struggling with an unemployment rate of 12%. In opinion polls, one-third of its citizens have said they would leave if they could. Already, experts estimate, as many as 15,000 Argentines have moved to Spain in the past year, nearly doubling the number already there. Just last week, Spain changed its laws to allow mothers — not just fathers — to pass on nationality, doubling the number eligible (有资格的) to become Spanish citizens to more than 720,000. In Teruel province, where Aguaviva lies, the population is now around 40% of what it was in 1900. “There were only two ways to change the situation,” says Bricio. “Either force people to have more babies or bring in young people from outside. We thought Latin Americans would integrate rapidly. They had the language, the common history.” Bricio placed a classified advertisement in an Argentine paper and made an announcement on a Buenos Aires radio station, targeting couples under 40 with at least two children. By the time he arrived to give his presentation, there were already 6,000 people waiting to talk to him. “Argentina, there was very little chance of work.” says Silvia Hernandez, 33, who recently moved to Teruel with her family. “The life our children have here, they could never have had in Argentina.”
Bricio’s association has now placed 106 adults and 142 children in Spanish villages — 112 of them in Aguaviva. Two years ago, the province was so desperate that it staged a protest in Madrid under the slogan “Does Exist”. More recently, a national paper ran a happier headline: “First baby born in Teruel village in 30 years.”
1. When Marcelo Martinez and Gilda Mazzeo moved to Aguaviva, they ________.| A．felt disappointed with what they saw | B．lived in a town 30 minutes away |
| C．received help from locals | D．failed to find any job |
| A．have more people to live in some almost deserted towns |
| B．find out why there are so many ghost towns in Spain |
| C．calculate how many places are disappearing |
| D．prevent townspeople migrating to cities |
| A．Both of their populations are increasing. |
| B．Their citizens can communicate in Spanish. |
| C．They are both struggling for more employment. |
| D．Neither of them appeal to other Latin Americans. |
| A．The Land of Opportunity |
| B．New Life, New Challenge |
| C．Teruel Suffered in the Last 30 Years |
| D．Luis Bricio, an Adventurer in Foreign Affairs |
【推荐2】A Beijing-based gene firm on Monday announced the debut (首次亮相) of the world’s first, cloned wild article wolf via video. 100 days after its birth in a Beijing lab. Experts said its birth pioneers the breeding of more rare and endangered animals through cloning technology.
“To save the endangered animal, we started the research cooperation with Harbin Polarland on cloning the arctic wolf in 2020. After two years of painstaking efforts, the arctic wolf was cloned successfully. It is the first case of its kind in the world,” Mi Jidong, the company’s general manager of the Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Co., said at a press conference in Beijing.
Born on June 10, the wolf, named Maya, is in very good health. Its donor cell came from the skin sample of a wild female arctic wolf, which had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. The cloning of the arctic wolf was accomplished by constructing 137 new embryos (胚胎), followed by the transfer of 85 embryos to the uteri of seven dogs, of which one was born as a healthy wolf-Maya, Zhao noted. The selection of a dog as Maya’s surrogate (代孕) was made because dogs share genetic ancestry with ancient wolves and it’s more likely to succeed through cloning technology, experts said.
He Zhengming, the head of Chinese Experimental Animal Resources Research Institute for Food and Drug Control, said that the cloned animals still have the ability to reproduce if they have intact fertilized eggs. The cloning technology can copy all genetic information for selective breeding, and in this way, it diversifies the population of endangered animals.
From the world’s first mammal clone “Dolly”, cloning technology has provided the possibility to diversify the populations of some species such as cattle, pigs and horses. When endangered species in some places are identified, cloning of cells preserved from freezing technologies could also generate new life, experts said.
However, some raised controversy relating to the cloned arctic wolf. Sun Ouanhui, a scientist from the World Animal Protection organization, insisted that cloning technology has made great progress since its birth, but it is still being perfected and in the exploratory stage of research, and there are many technical and ethical issues that need to be tackled and treated with caution.
1. What is the significance of the first cloned wild arctic wolf’s birth?| A．To produce more endangered species through cloning. |
| B．To help the scientists win an award. |
| C．To promote the research cooperation. |
| D．To increase the profit of wildlife reserves. |
| A．Maya is the first cloned arctic wolf in the world. |
| B．Wild arctic wolves are easily available in Harbin Polarland. |
| C．There is no scientific support for choosing a dog as Maya’s surrogate. |
| D．Researchers experienced trial and error to achieve the successful birth of Maya. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Favorable. | C．Objective. | D．Opposed. |
| A．The Research on the Rare and Endangered Animals |
| B．The Debut of the World’s 1st Cloned Wild Arctic Wolf |
| C．The Beginning of the Cloning Technology Application |
| D．The Conservation of Endangered Wildlife through Cloning Technology |
【推荐3】“Sunday Morning”honored the creative, inspiring and newsworthy men and women who passed away in 2020, who'd touched our lives in unforgettable ways.
Pain and sorrow - the calling cards of 2020. “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers provided us reassurance（保证） that tomorrow may be better. Although Withers left us at 81, his notes of comfort helped during a year that wasn't even a month old before grief was already setting in.
The death of 41-year-old Kobe Bryant, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others because of an air crash, astonished everyone-basketball fans or not.
“My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get". COVID was certainly the box we all wished we never got. But Winston Groom, who created Forrest Gump, reminded us through that character that challenges exist, to be overcome.
Dignity for Black Americans remained an unfinished struggle in 2020. The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor-just to name a few-restarted a movement for equality and justice not seen since the 1960s.
Gender equality lost some of its superheroes, too. Helen Reddy, who was inspired to retire after “I Am Woman” became her most popular song in 1974, offered the soundtrack for the fight that she herself engaged in. But there were few champions for women as influential as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In her 27 years on the Supreme Court，she expanded rights for women as well as men. Small in stature（个子）,a giant for us all. The only thing tougher than Justice Ginsburg was the cancer that took her at age 87.
While the sun isn't out just yet, the hope is that it's just over the horizon.
1. What did Winston Groom want to tell us through Forrest Gump?| A．Forrest Gump had a box of chocolates. | B．A person's character determines his fate. |
| C．We didn't expect to get Covid-19 in 2020. | D．We are living through difficulties in our life. |
| A．Kobe Bryant. | B．Forest Gump. | C．George Floyd. | D．Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| A．She was a racist. | B．She died from an accident. |
| C．She was a musician. | D．She didn't retire until her death. |
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1. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the text?| A．Nursing students can choose to learn Math or Issues. |
| B．Taking winter classes tends to help you take a step ahead. |
| C．The winter classes are expected to last more than 50 days. |
| D．The credits taken at SUNY CCC will surely meet your demands. |
| A．Don't Put College On Ice! |
| B．Let's Transfer the Credits At Will! |
| C．Sign Up For Winter Term For Fun! |
| D．It's Time To Schedule Classes At Ease! |
| A．To introduce the winter classes of the college. |
| B．To promote the winter courses of SUNY CCC. |
| C．To inform students of different college enrollment choices. |
| D．To explain the reasons for taking winter classes at SUNY CCC. |
【推荐2】Are you having difficulty falling asleep? Try drinking a glass of warm milk. If that doesn't work, listen to beautiful soft music. Still no luck? Try thinking about sheep jumping over a fence. If you are still awake, take a sleeping pill. But people who take pills often become dependent on the drugs. So you lie awake knowing that the new workday will soon arrive. If you have been in such condition for at least one month, you may have primary insomnia.
A new study has found that you might fall asleep more quickly and stay asleep longer if you try "cerebral hypothermia”. It is not a complex medical process. It just means cooling down your brain. Eric Nofzinger and Daniel Buysse from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School led the study. They examined twelve people who had sleeping problems. Twelve others had no sleeping problems. Each of them wore a soft plastic cap on their head at bedtime.
The caps had tubes inside filled with water. The researchers moved the water through the tubes and then changed the temperature of the water. Other studies showed that people who had sleeping problems often had more chemical reactions in the front of their brains. The researchers thought cooling down the brain might help.
On the first two nights of testing, the patients wore caps with no water. On the next two nights, the caps were worn, but the water was not cooled. Then the researchers cooled the water a little for another two nights. On the final two nights of the study, the temperature of the water was made much cooler.
The researchers found that the water caps didn't help the patients until the temperature was about 14℃. Most of the patients fell asleep faster and slept better when the coolest water was moving around their heads.
Dr. Nofzinger and Dr. Buysse noted that this was only the beginning of the brain temperature study. But they believed they had discovered something important that needed more research.
1. What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?| A．To ask readers a question. | B．To tell sleeping problems. |
| C．To show what insomnia is. | D．To offer ways to insomnia. |
| A．They showed more chemical reactions. | B．They were required to wear plastic caps. |
| C．They all suffered from sleeping problems. | D．They cooled themselves by drinking water. |
| A．It turns out disappointing. | B．It proves widely practical. |
| C．It stands out among studies. | D．It still has a long way to go. |
| A．It's time to cool yourself down. | B．A medical process benefits sleep. |
| C．A new way might help with sleep. | D．Cooling clown your brain matters. |
【推荐3】Would you like to work at home in the future? Working from home gets a bad rap (名声）.Google the phrase 一 you’ll see a cheat or low-level jobs.
But Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom says requiring workers to be in the office is an outdated work tradition. It ignores(忽视）today’s fine communications methods and long commutes(通勤）and actually hurts firms and workers.
“Working from home is a future-looking technology, ” Bloom told an audience during a program TEDx-Stanford, “and I think it has a bright future. ” To test his idea, Bloom, with co-researcher James, did research on a largest travel company, Chip. They invited volunteers to a study in which half worked from home for nine months, coming into the office one day a week and half worked only from the office. Bloom tracked (跟踪）these two groups for about two years. The results? “We found a 13% improvement in performance from people working at home. ” Bloom Rays. Two reasons led to that uptick: First, people working from home actually work all the time. As to people working from the office, they might be delayed by traffic or take a long-time lunch with a workmate. They are less likely to be on the clock for the full workday. Second, Bloom says, people at home are able to concentrate better. “The office is actually an amazingly noisy environment, ‘ There’s a cake in the break room; Bob’s leaving, so come and join us for dinner. ’”
Also, his study found that workers’ quitting jobs at the company dropped by 50% when they were allowed to work from home.
Bloom hopes this example helps kill the negative (负面的）opinions on working from borne. For workers they’re much more productive and happier. For managers, you don’t have to spend so much time hiring(雇佣）and training people. For firms，you make far more profit (利润）.For society，there，s a huge saving of reducing traffic jams, driving times and，finally, pollution.
1. According to Nicholas Bloom, people working from the office usually .| A．Get low salaries. |
| B．Have rich working resources. |
| C．Waste a lot of time on the way. |
| D．Develop strong communication skills. |
| A．Increase. | B．Popularity. |
| C．Failure. | D．Fall. |
| A．It can reduce traffic jams and pollution. |
| B．It makes workers’ family life much happier. |
| C．It can strengthen the ties of the whole company. |
| D．It builds up managers’ experience in training workers. |
| A．working from home will still have a bad rap |
| B．working at the office is better than at home |
| C．fewer people will quit jobs in the future |
| D．working from home is a future-looking |
