单选题 Working at home in your nightclothes while saving hundreds of dollars may sound too good to be true, but it isn't. More and more employees are telecommuting, doing their job at home or another remote site.
"It's a trend that's here now and you're going to see a lot more telecommuting because people don't have to put up with commuting (来回上下班). They want more work / life balance, they want less stress in their lives and companies want to drive costs after their bottom lines," says John Edwards, President of the International Telework Assoeiation and Council.
However, Edwards says, '"The biggest problem at the moment is dealing with middle management who is uncomfortable with management style focusing on results. They are used to the line of sight management style. But they have to change to more results-oriented management style which can often be slightly opposite, so they feel uncomfortable with that."
Edwards says telecommuting kills distance--and a lot of face to face meetings are replaced by teleconferences. "Distance does not exist anymore. It's the death of distance, if you like. So now it's possible to have more invisible teams so that the necessity to have the old bricks and walls existing is beginning to disappear."

单选题 According to the writer, telecommuting refers to the way______.

A. people do all their work by telephone
B. employees wear nightclothes while working
C. people do their work outside companies
D. employees communicate with each other

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推理断题。本题询问根据作者的说法，远程工作是指什么。文章第一段第二句话的后半部分是对前半句中的提到的远程工作的解释，远程工作即人们在家里或其他遥远的地方工作，由此可推知远程工作是人们不在公司进行的工作方式，故选项C为正确答案。 [避错指南] 选项A(人们通过电话进行工作的方式)和选项D(员工彼此之间交流的方式)在文章当中没有提到，故为错误选项。选项B(职员穿着睡衣工作)虽然在文章第一段第一句话中提到过，但这只是远程丁作时的一种可能的睛形，说法不够全面，故应排除。

单选题 Which of the following is NOT the reason why telecommuting has become popular?

A. It can balance employees' work and life.
B. It can help save the cost for companies.
C. It can reduce conflicts between employers and employers.
D. It can kill the time spent in going to work from home.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问下面哪一项不是远程工作受人欢迎的原因。选项C(远程工作可以减少员工与雇主的冲突)在文章当中没有提到，故此项符合题意，为正确答案。 [避错指南] 解答，此题可用排除法。文章第二段中爱德华所说的话提到了远程工作的好处，也就是远程工作受欢迎的原因。根据第二段中爱德华说的第一句话的后半部分可知远程工作可以减少人们上下班花费的时间，故选项D是远程工作的好处之一。根据他说的第二句话可知远程工作可以平衡员工的工作与生活，故选项A是远程工作的好处之一。根据他说的第二句话后半部分可知远程工作可以减少公司的成本，因此选项B也是远程工作的好处之一。此三项都是远程工作受欢迎的原因，不符合题目的要求，故不选。

单选题 According to John Edwards, management style in the new trend______.

A. focuses on sight management
B. is opposite to employers' expectation
C. should get used to results management
D. saves unnecessary troubles

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问根据约翰?爱德华的说法，新的管理方式是什么样子的。根据文章第三段第三句话的前半部分可知管理远程工作时人们更加注重结果，所以新的管理方式应该适应注重结果的管理，选项C为正确答案。 [避错指南] 根据文章第三段第二句话可知以前的管理方式注重面对面的管理，因此这不是新的管理方式，选项A为错误选项麓选项B(与雇主的期望相反)和选项B(可以省去不必要的麻烦)在文章中没有提到，故这两项都为错误选项。

单选题 We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.

A. employees hate distance between each other
B. there should be no distance between employers and employees
C. the disappearance of distance improves efficiency
D. telecommuting changes ways of communication

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】推理判断题。本题询问从最后一段中我们可以推理得出什么。根据最后一段第一句话的后半部分，网上会议取代面对面的会议，由此可知远程工作可以改变人们的交流方式，故选项D为正确答案。 [避错指南] 选项A(员工痛恨彼此之间存在的距离)、选项B(雇员与雇主之间不应该存在距离)和选项C(距离的消失提高了效率)不能从文章最后一段中推理得出，故此三项均不符合题目要求。

单选题 The passage is mainly concerned with ______.

A. commuting
B. telecommuting
C. teleconferences
D. management style

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】主旨大意题。本题询问这篇文章主要是关于什么的。这篇文章主要讲了远程工作，远程工作的优点以及面临的困难，因此选项B为正确答案。 [避错指南] 选项A(来回上下班)只是在文章第二段中提到，不是全文主要讨论的问题，故为错误选项。选项C(网上会议)是远程工作进行交流的一种方式，不全面，故不选。选项D(管理方式)或称远程工作对管理方式的影响，是第三段的主要内容，不足以涵盖全文的主要内容，故不选。