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2015考研英语二 · 阅读理解 Text 1
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2015考研英语二阅读理解 Text 1 原文
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.
答案与逐题解析
答案速查
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22B
23B
24C
25D
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21According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home ______.
答案A
解析首段以“contrary to most surveys”引出新发现：人们在家比在职场更有压力，并称家本应是“a place of refuge”。可见以往多数调查认为家比职场更能放松、减压。A项与此对应。B、D未涉及测量场所是否理想或家是否“不现实”；C说的是新研究结论，恰与“以往调查”相反。
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22According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
答案B
解析Damaske指出男女在工作中压力都更低，女性甚至觉得在工作中更好，并强调“是男性而非女性报告在家比在工作中更快乐”；该结论对有无子女者都成立，但对无子女者更明显。故最可能在家最快乐的是无子女的丈夫。A、C涉及母亲或有子女；D是妻子而非男性。
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23The blurring of working women’s roles refers to the fact that ______.
答案B
解析文中写外出工作的女性常要补做家务，角色模糊，且家庭远落后于职场对职业女性的调整。即她们既是养家者又是主妇。B正确。A“踢腿放松”说的是许多男性下班后；C只谈家务残留，未点明双重角色；D更贴近全职在家、从未“离开办公室”的女性。
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24The word “moola” (Line 4, Para. 4) most probably means ______.
答案C
解析第四段说职场交易很纯粹：员工投入体力或脑力劳动，换取维持生活的moola。前文已有“making money”“draw an income”，故moola即收入、钱。C正确。A技能、B精力、D营养均无法对应“换取维持生命”的报酬语境。
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25The home front differs from the workplace in that ______.
答案D
解析文中对比职场职责清晰，家中“没有这种明晰”，“很少有家庭劳动分工被如此临床、有条理地规定”。D项“家中分工很少明确”与此一致。A与“报酬不足”相反；B未比较是否更舒适；C与家中同事“更难激励”相反。
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