[英语阅读理解真题考研二级]
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    Even in traditional offices，“the lingua franca of corporate America hasgottenmuch more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago，"said Ha rva rd Business School professor Nancy Koehn She sta rted spinning offexamples."If you and I pa rachuted back to Fortune 500 panies in 1990，wewould see much less frequent use of terms like Journey, mission,passion. Therewere goals，there were strategies，there were objectives，but we didn't talk aboutenergy;we didn't talk about passion."
    Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabula ry is very"team"-oriented-and not by coincidence."Let's not forget sDorts-inmale-dominated corporate America，it's still a big deal. It's not explicitlyconscious;it's the idea that I'm a coach，and you're my team，and we're in thistogethec. There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different panies，but mostthink of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win".
    These terms a re also intended to infuse work with meaning-and，as Khu ranapoints out，increase allegiance to the firm."You have the importation ofterminology that historically used to be associated with non-profitorganizations and religious organizations：Terms like vision，values，passion，andpurpose，"saidKhurana
    This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivatedamid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance The "mommy wars" of the1990s a re still going on today, prompting arguments about whywomen stillcan'thave it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In，whose title has eabuzzword in its own right. Terms likeunplug，offline，life-hack，bandwidth，andcapacity are all about setting boundariesbetween the office and the home But ifyour work is your "passion," you'II bemore likely to devote yourself to it，even ifthat means going home for dinner andthen working long after the kids are in bed
    But this seems to be the irony of office speak：Everyone makes fun ofit，butmanage rs love it，panies depend on it，and regular people willinglyabsorb itAs Nunberg said，"You
can get people to think it's nonsense at the sametimethat you buy into it." In a workplace that's fundamentally indiffe rent toyour lifeand its meaning office speak can help you figu re out how you relate toyourwork-and how your work defines who you arereaction paper to metaphor
    31. According to Nancy Koehn, office language has e________
    [A]more e motional
    [B]more objective
    [C]less energetic
    [D]less energetic
    [E]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 pany 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
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    That everyone's too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific plaintis made especially mournfully: There's never any time to read.
    What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-managementtechniques don't seem sufficient. The web's full of articles offering tips onmaking time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times.” Butin my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn't work.Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning-orelse you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need. Themodern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelminglyinclined toward munication。It is not simply that one is interrupted; it isthat one is actually inclined to interruption.” Deep reading requires not justtime, but a special kind of time which can't be obtained merely by ing moreefficient.
    In fact, “ing more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of timeas a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging anygiven moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward somegoal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to riskinefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do listitem and you'll manage only goal-focused reading-useful, sometimes, but not themost fulfilling kind. “The future es at us like empty bottles along anunstoppable and near
ly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his bookSacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles(days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, wewill have wasted them.” No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in abook.

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