单选题
People"s attitude towards their work determines everything. To workers, leisure means simply the hours they need to relax and rest in order to work efficiently. Workers are therefore more
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to dedicate more time to working, taking too little
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rather than too much. To laborers, on the other hand, leisure means autonomy from compulsion,
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it is natural for them to imagine that the fewer hours they have to spend laboring, and the more hours they have free to play, the
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Besides mere hours spent in leisure, workers and laborers
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in the amount of personal satisfaction they derive from their jobs. Workers who enjoy their jobs will be happier, less stressed, and generally more
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with their lives. They will also work with more diligence and precision
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they have fostered a sense of personal pride in their jobs. On the other hand, laborers, whose sole incentive is
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their livelihood, feel that the time they spend on the daily routine is wasted and doesn"t contribute to their happiness.
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valuing all 24 hours of their day as enjoyable and productive hours, they gauge only the time spent in leisure and play as meaningful. Unfortunately, laborers are all too
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and only a small percentage of the population is in the lucky position of being workers.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[考点] 对上下文语篇线索的理解及同义词辨析
[解析] 第一段的第二句指出:对工作者而言,闲暇只是指他们为了更有效地工作而需要放松休息的时间。也就是说,工作者放松和休息的目的是为了更好地工作。由此可以推断,工作者更愿意或更有可能在工作上投入更多的时间。这样就先排除了A项unlikely(不可能的)和C项reluctant(不情愿的)。B项possible和D项prone(有……倾向的)是近义词,而且均符合题意。但我们在用possible一词来表示某人有可能做某事时,常用句型为“It is possible for sb. to do sth.”或“It is possible that sb. will do sth.”,不能用“Sb. is possible to do sth.”,因此,正确答案为D。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 对上下文语篇线索的理解
[解析] 本题空格所在的主句部分指出,工作者更倾向于奉献更多的时间于工作。由此可以推断,空格中应填入的词为A项leisure(闲暇),说明他们拥有很少而非很多的闲暇。B项mission意为“使命,任务”,take too little mission意为“承担太少的任务”,这与主句的意思矛盾。若选C项,则take office意为“执政”,与题意不符。若选D项delight,它与take构成的短语为take delight in意为“以……为乐”,这也完全不符合题意。
【答案解析】[考点] 对上下文语篇线索的理解
[解析] 本题要求填入一个形容词的比较级形式,构成句中形容词比较级的特殊句型“the fewer hours they have to spend laboring, and the more hours they have free to play, the...”。从前一个句子我们已经了解,闲暇对于劳动者来说意味着从强迫中得到自主,那么,对他们来说劳动的时间越少而玩的时间越多,当然就是越好了。因此,正确答案为A项better。其实,在这个比较级句型中,完整的句子结构是“the better it will be”,意为“那就越好”,句子的主语是it而不是they,所以不能误选为D项happier。B项more与题意不符,C项worse则与题意完全相反。