单选题
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured people"s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
"Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home." writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske. In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes, "It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work." Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health.
What the study doesn"t measure is whether people are still doing work when they"re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it"s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.
But it"s not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what they"re supposed to be doing, working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure. Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining
moola
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On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor: they need to be talked into it, or if they"re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they"re your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.
So it"s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
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According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home ______.
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The blurring of working women"s roles refers to the fact that ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第三段第二至第四句“For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay … are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.”可知,对于男性来说,一天的工作结束后,是他们休息的时候;但是对于女性来说,离开办公室之后,还有很多的家务活。由此可推断出,“The blurring of working women"s roles”指的是“女性既要在职场打拼还要做很多家务”。A项意为“她们(女性)既是养家糊口的人也是家庭主妇”,符合文意。故答案为A。
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The word "moola"(Line 4, Para. 4)most probably means ______.
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The home front differs from the workplace in that ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干关键词“home front”可定位到文章第五段。本段第一句提到,然而,人们对于大后方(家庭)就没有那么清楚了。接下来的一句进一步指出“Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically…”(家务活的分工并不明确)。B项中的“seldom(很少)”对应原文中的“Rare(稀少)”,“clear-cut(清晰的)”对应原文的“clinically(不偏不倚的)”。故答案为B。