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.
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.
单选题
According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 题干给出了两个提示符号。Paragraph 1指向第一段，从而确定出题范围。Most previous surveys这个名词短语特别重要，进一步缩小范围到第一段的第一句。previous(之前的)这个词与new相对照，也是一个词汇考点。
A项从出处看，home与workplace的对比，符合第一句。从理解看，relaxation(休闲)是重点词汇，是contrary(相反)与stressed(压力)结合而出现的。
B项名词stress measurement(压力测试)来自于第二句，显然不在“之前”的研究范围之内，违反题干指向。而ideal place(理想场所)也不在第一段的讨论之中。出处不对。
C项从出处看，和选项A一致，都属于第一段第一句的指向范围，没有问题。从理解看，generate more stress(产生更大压力)与people are more stressed(人们压力更大)保持一致。唯一的问题是：这个结果与题干previous studies无关，是“最新研究”的发现。答非所问。
D项名词relaxation作为stress的对立词，符合题干范围。关键在于对unrealistic(不现实的，不切实际的)的词汇考查，对构词的前缀un提出要求。从理解看，选项表达出相反的内容。
单选题
According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] Damaske是指向标志，第二段基本都在Damaske的覆盖范围；同时特别注意最高级the happiest at home(在家最幸福)，指向第四句：Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but
more so for nonparents.
A项从出处看，women和working的结合几乎出现在第二段的每一句中，符合考试范围。从理解看，与working women搭配的有lower level、feel better、happier、better health四个比较词语，都无法满足题干the happiest最高级的要求。
B项看名词husbands的出现，可以替代men，在第二段很多，加上child的修饰，只有第四句提到children。从理解考查看，对构词法提出了要求：childless(没有孩子)对应those...without和nonparent(没有孩子的父母)两处。
C项名词fathers等同于those with children，来源正确。但是修饰词语working把整个选项和原句的理解对立起来，也违反了题干happiest at home的要求。
D项出处同选项B. ，结合第三句“It is men，not women，who report being happier at home than at work．”可知，“有孩子没孩子都符合上述发现，但是没有孩子的父母更加如此”，即“没孩子的男性在家更幸福”。
单选题
The blurring of working women"s roles refers to the fact that _____.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题序原则，第三题应该在第二题涉及范围之后，从第三段开始，最多到第四段；其次，blurring of working women"s role(职业女性角色模糊)指向第三段最后一句：
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. roles(角色)指前面两句中的women...stay at home和women...outside home。
A项home…kick back显然取自第二句，主语是男性，与题干要求不符。
B项名词bread winners(养家糊口的人)对应women working outside home；housewives(家庭主妇)对应women...stay at home。其本质是词汇替换，理解停留在词汇层面。
C项选项重点名词housework指向两处，household work(第一句)和household tasks(最后一句)，均与选项动词短语left behind(搁置下来)没有搭配关联。同时也和题干的working women"s roles没有关系。
D项leave their office(离开办公室)出自第三句：For women who stay home，they never get to leave the office．选项中的形容词difficult无法等同句中的never。其次，第三句指“居家女性”这种角色遭遇到的情形，与题干“两种角色模糊”不完全符合。
单选题
The word "moola" (Para. 4) most probably means _____.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 标志词直接指向第四段，其实需要扩大到上下文，即上一句：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. 考查名词moola，需要特别注意上下文中相关名词的使用。一般而言，名词往往扎堆，具有相同或相似的意义，才能保持段落的统一性。本段的名词其实就集中在两条线索：doing、working、task、labor是其一；money、income、moola是其二。
A项skills(技能)，不在段落名词线索之列。
B项energy(能量)，同上。
C项earnings(收入)，可视为money、income的同义词汇。
D项nutrition(营养)同选项A和B。
单选题
The home front differs from the workplace in that ______．
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 依据题序原则，只有最后两段需要考查。然后依据重点名词the home front differs from the workplace定位原则，找出倒数第二段的对应部分：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. 需要注意此处的倒装结构需要留意。
A项名词family labor(家务劳动)和rewards(报酬)直接带到句子：Your home colleagues—your family—have no clear rewards for their labor. 选项与原句意义相反。
B项名词home和working environment(工作环境)的关联在文章中没有出现。题干要求找出home和workplace的区别，可见该选项也违背题意。
C项名词：household tasks出现在第三句和最后一段的第二句，来源在考查范围之内，但是文章中与household tasks相关的描述词语分别是inadequate rewards(奖励不足)和infinite(没完没了)，与选项的：more motivating(更有动力)没有关系，甚至相反。
D项名词division of labor at home指向第二句，符合考查范围。clear-cut(清楚明了)是一个难点，对应句中clinically and methodically laid out(明确布置)；seldom对应rare。这是典型的词语同义替换关系。