单选题
Kelly Sortino had a tough time recalling what she"d accomplished at the end of each busy workday. Her job as head of the upper school for the Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, Calif., often
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working 12-hour days, including weekends and evenings. She enjoyed the
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but worried that she wasn"t accomplishing everything she needed to. "I felt as if I wasn"t really having the time to do more of the strategic and
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work to make those larger changes at the school." says Ms. Sortino.
She decided to
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a workshop at Stanford University on how to simplify work processes and reduce waste. She learned,
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, to block out her time more efficiently and minimize distractions. She also
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herself to systematically completing her daily task list and to completely clearing her email inbox and workspace on a regular
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. The changes
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a marked improvement in her time management. Ms. Sortino
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works on weekends, but only as needed.
It"s a tough time to be productive. Globalization, increased competition and the jarring immediacy of technology have made it difficult for modern employees to
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on top of their growing workloads while maintaining a good work-life balance.
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, experts say small adjustments to how employees
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work can have a big impact on their workplace efficiency.
Learn to prioritize and to commit yourself to working in
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blocks of time throughout the day. A 2009 Stanford University study found that multitasking is less productive than single-tasking and that many self-proclaimed multitaskers have difficulty
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out irrelevant information, further
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their performance.
It"s especially important to
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what motivates the decisions your boss makes. Most subordinates have an employee-centric view
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their managers, which tends not to be accurate. A better understanding of your boss can help you to "sell" the advice about
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changes that can benefit the department and company.
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with your boss to prioritize important work and eliminate unproductive tasks. Employees may think changing job functions is risky,
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being proactive can impress your boss.
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“她很享受______,但担心自己没有完成所有的任务”,根据转折词but以及后面的worried,accomplishing,make those larger changes可知,凯利·索尔蒂诺是喜欢这份工作的,只是担心不能完成工作,故D.work“工作”为正确答案。文中只是客观陈述她加班的事实,并没有反映出她对加班的态度,故overtime“加班”不符合文意。title“头衔,称谓”和recall“回忆”与but后面的内容“担心不能完成所有的任务”不构成意思上的转折,故排除。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 此处需要填入一个形容词,与strategic“战略性的”共同修饰后面的work,而且做这项工作的目的是make those larger changes at the school“让学校发生更大的变化”,所以这样的工作涉及学校将来的发展,故B.visioning“有远见的,前瞻性的”为正确答案。complicated“复杂的”和regular“普通的;正式的”与策略和工作目的都不搭。important“重要的”虽然词义的方向正确,但是visioning比important表意更精准,故排除important。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 考生首先要确认workshop的含义,根据后面的Stanford University和learned可知,该名词在此处意为“研讨会,研习班”,“参加研习班”的英文表达是take a workshop,故D.take“参加”为正确答案。participate作“参加”讲时,是不及物动词,应该加介词in,故排除。have a workshop意为“有一个研讨班”,start a workshop意为“启动一个研讨班”,二者均不符合文意,故排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“她还______自己有条不紊地完成每天的工作任务……”,此处需要填入动词,构成短语v.+oneself to doing sth.,根据句意可知commit oneself to doing sth.“致力于做某事”符合文意,故B项为正确答案。ask“要求”和allow“允许”均构成V.+sb.to do sth.,故排除。contribute oneself to doing sth. “对……做贡献”虽然搭配正确,但是不符合文意,故排除。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“……完成每天的工作任务,以及______清理电子邮箱和办公区”,将四个选项分别代入句中,其中on a regular basis“定期地,经常地”最符合文意,故C.basis为正确答案。on a regular scale“在常规范围内”和on a regular amount“在常规数量内”意思上均不符合。如果用time,介词通常用at,即at a regular time“在常规时间内”,故排除D项。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本句意在表达这些变化带来进步,produce“产生,引起,导致”代入句中,构成The changes produced a marked improvement“这些变化带来了明显的进步”,符合文意,故D.produced项为正确答案。短语。make an improvement“取得进步”的主语通常是人,故排除。follow“跟随,追随”和mean“意味着”代入文中,表意均不准确,故排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 根据本句句意“在全球化浪潮来临、竞争压力加剧和技术革新快得让人喘不过气来的今天,员工们很难在______不断增加的工作量的同时还能保持工作与生活的良性平衡”可知,此处应该表达“应对,克服”的意思,stay on top of sth. 意为“保持一切在掌控之中”,符合文意,故C.stay为正确答案。relax“放松”代入句中指“在不断增加的工作量上放松”,与后面的while不构成反向对比,故排除。compete“竞争,比赛”不符合文意。work“工作”与on搭配,意为“从事于……,继续工作”与文意不符,也排除。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据上句中的difficult和本句中的adjustments,have a big impact可知,两句间有转折关系,故C.Fortunately“幸运地”代入句中,符合文意,为正确答案。Besides“此外,而且”表示递进,Therefore“因此,所以”表示因果,Otherwise“否则”,三者均不符合文意,故排除。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“专家们说小幅调整员工对工作的______可以对他们的工作效率产生重大影响”,并且首句指出“提高效率并不容易”,所以本句意在说明“小幅调整很小的方面就能影响效率”,故B.think about“想,思考,考虑(尤指考虑计划、意见的可行性)”符合文意,为正确答案。stick to work“坚持工作”,start with work“从工作开始”,take overwork“接管工作”均不符合文意,故排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 根据本句句意“试着______老板做决定的动机,这一点尤其重要”以及本段第三句中的A better understanding of your boss“更好地了解老板的想法”可知,B.understand“了解”为正确答案。guess“猜测”,collect“收集”,imagine“想象”,均表意不精准,故排除。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“大多数下属主要从雇员的角度出发看待上司,这样的看法往往是不正确的”,表示“对……的看法”用have a view of,故D.of为正确答案。in,on,for均无此用法,故排除。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“更好地了解老板的想法有助于你向上司“推销”有利于部门和整个公司的______调整建议”,根据下一句中的prioritize important work and eliminate unproductive tasks可知,这一调整是有关过程/流程的,故A.process“过程,程序”为正确答案。time“时间”,staff“员工”,system“体系,系统”,均与文意不符,故排除。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“______你的老板,优先处理重要的工作,取消徒劳的工作任务”,此处意在说明“你需要配合着老板,与老板一起提高工作效率”,work with“与……共事,与……一起工作”符合文意,故D.Work为正确答案。Accompany“陪伴”和Operate“操作”语义上不符。Follow“遵循”虽然意思上符合,但应该是Follow your boss,故排除。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据空格前的risky、空格后的impress your boss,以及本句句意“员工们可能认为改变工作职能是冒险的,______表现得积极主动可以给你的老板留下深刻的印象”可知,两个分句之间是转折关系,故A.but“但是”为正确答案。and“和”表示并列关系,so“因此”表示因果关系,unless“如果不”表示条件关系,均排除。