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专题06 阅读理解C篇（原卷版）高考考点命题分析备考建议三年高考探源考查频率阅读理解C篇纵观近几年的高考真题阅读C篇题材，不难发现经济类以及科技说明类文章占据很大比重，建议老师在高考最后冲刺阶段C篇阅读的训练内容可以以经济，教育，生活和科技四大类文章为主。 根据命题要求阅读理解考题可分为4类： 细节题；主旨题；推断题；词义猜测题；其中，细节题在阅读A、B篇出现较多，建议引导学生带着问题在文章中寻找解题依据。C篇则是较多地出现主旨题和推断题，侧重对于全文的整体理解。2021、2020、2019第63-66题★★★ 近三年真题考情分析--C篇阅读理解年份2017年春考2017年秋考2018年春考2018年秋考2019年春考2019年秋考 2019秋考内容家庭教育方式老年待遇网络经济线性规划传统核电站的开发招生信息题材教育生活情感科技说明人工智能经济生活（实际运用）科技教育 教育教育教育2019年上海高考英语真题(C)Composite image of Europe and North Africa at night, 2016. Credit： NASA Earth NPP Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi VIIRS data from Miguel Roman, is oftenNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Artificial light seen as a sign of progress: the march of civilization shines a light in the dark； it takes back the night； it illuminates. But a chorus of scientists and advocates argues that unnaturally bright nights are bad not just for astronomers but also for nocturnal (夜间活动的)animals and even for human health.Now research shows the night is getting even brighter. From 2012 to 2016 the earth's artificially lit area expanded by an estimated 2. 2 percent a year (map), according to a study published last November in Science Advances. Even that increase may understate the problem, however. The measurement excludes light from most of the energy-efficient LED lamps that have been replacing sodium-vapor technology in cities all over the world, says lead study author Christopher Kyba, a postdoctoral researcher at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam.The new data came from a NASA satellite instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). It can measure long-wavelengths of light, such as those produced by traditional yellow-and-orange sodium-vapor street lamps. But VIIRS cannot see the shortwavelength blue light produced by white LEDs. This light has been shown to disrupt human sleep cycles and nocturnal animals, behavior.Credit: Mapping Specialists ； Source: Artificially Lit Surface of Earth at Night Increasing in Radiance and Extent," by Christopher C. M. Kyba et al. , in Science Advances, Vol. 3, No. 11, Article No. E1701528 ； November 22, 2017.The team believes the ongoing switch to LEDs caused already bright countries such as Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the U. S. to register as having stable levels of illumination in the VIIRS data. In contrast, most nations in South America, Africa and Asia brightened, suggesting increases in the use of traditional lighting. Australia actually appeared to lose lit area一but the researchers say that is because wildfires skewed the data."The fact that VIIRS finds an increase (in many countries) , despite its blindness in the part of the spectrum that increased more, is very sad," says FabioFalchi, a researcher at Italy's Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute, who did not participate in the study. In 2016 Falchi, along with Kyba and several other members of his research team, published a global atlas of artificial lighting that showed one third of the world's population currently lives under skies too bright to see the Milky Way at night.The data also cast doubt on the idea that the LED lighting revolution will lead to energy cost savings. Between 2012 and 2016 the median nation pumped out 15 percent more long- wavelength light as its GDP increased by 13 percent. And overall, countries, total light production correlated with their GDP. In other words, Kyba says, "we buy as much light as we are willing to spend money on."43. Which is not true about the spread of lit areas?A. Lit area expanded by an estimated 2. 2 percent a year.B. Artificial light is often seen as a sign of progress.C. The increase in GDP is due to the increase in light.D. It is bad for noctumal animals and even for human health.44. Which of the following about VIIRS is NOT true according to the passage?A. It is a kind of NASA satellite device.B. It can record and analyzed long-wavelength light.C. The blue light generated by white LEDs can disrupt human sleep cycles.D. VIIRS has found an increase of traditional lighting in lots of nations.45. According to the article, what we can know about the LEDs?A. Artificial LED lights at nights are harmful to people's health.B. It is a sign of civilization in modern society.C. The blue light disrupts human and animals" life cycles.D. Artificially lit surface of Earth increasing because of LEDs.46. The author writes this article to     .A. show the VIIRS data from NASAB. demonstrate the significance of VIIRS for its measurement of wavelengthsC. reveal the relationship between wavelength light and GDPD. arouse peoples awareness of light pollution2018年上海高考英语真题Understand the Economic Concept of a Budget LineThe term “budget line" has several related meanings, including a couple that are self-evident and a third that is not.The Budget Line as an Informal Consumer UnderstandingThe budget line is an elementary concept that most consumers understand intuitively without a need for graphs and equations—it's the household budget, for example.Taken informally, the budget line describes the boundary of affordability for a given budget and specific goods.Given a limited amount of money, a consumer can only spend that same amount buying goods. If the consumer has X amount of money and wants to buy two goods A and B, she can only purchase goods totaling X. If the consumer needs an amount of A costing 0. 75 X, she can then spend only 0. 25 X, the amount remaining, on her purchase of B．This seems almost too obvious to bother writing or reading about. As it turns out, however, this same concept——one that most consumers make many times each day with reflecting on it—is the basis of the more formal budget line concept in economics, which is explained below.Lines in a BudgetBefore turning to the economics definition of “budget line" , consider another concept: the line-item budget. This is effectively a map of future expenditures, with all the constituent expenditures individually noted and quantified. There's nothing very complicated about this； in this usage, a budget line is one of the lines in the budget, with the service or good to be purchased named and the cost quantified.The Budget Line as an Economics ConceptOne of the interesting ways the study of economics relates to human behavior generally is that a lot of economic theory is the formalization of the kind of simple concept outlined above— a consumer's informal understanding of the amount she has to spend and what that amount will buy.In the process of formalization, the concept can be expressed as a mathematical equation that can be applied generally.A Simple Budget Line GraphTo understand this, think of a graph where the vertical lines quantify how many movie tickets you can buy and where the horizontal lines do the same for crime novels. You like going to the movies and reading crime novels and you have $ 150 to spend. In the example below, assume that each movie costs $ 10 and each crime novel costs $ 15. The more formal economics term for these two items is budget set.If movies cost $ 10 each, then the maximum number of movies you can see with the money available is 15. To note this you make a dot at the number 15 (for total movie tickets) at the extreme left-hand side of the chart. This same dot appears at the extreme left above "0" on the horizontal axis because you have no money left for books—the number of books available in this example is 0.You can also graph the other extreme—all crime novels and no movies. Since crime novels in the example cost $ 15 and you have $ 150 available, if you spend all the available money crime novels, you can buy 10. So you put a dot on the horizontal axis at the number 10.You'll place the dot at the bottom of the vertical axis because in this instance you have $ 0 available for movie tickets.If you now draw a line from the highest, leftmost dot to the lowest, rightmost dot you'll have created a budget line. Any combination of movies and crime novels that falls below the budget line is affordable. Any combination above it is not.1．Which sentence about the budget line is NOT TRUE?A．It is a limitation of affordability for a given budget and specific goods.B．Most costumers will be confused with this concept because of its complex.C．It is the effectively a map of future expenditures.D．It can be expressed as a mathematical equation.2．What is the purpose of the passage?A．To tell us any concept can be expressed as a mathematical equation.B．To help us figure out the meaning Budget Line.C．To tell us we should budget before we buy goods.D．To give an instruction of drawing a budget Line.3．Assume that each movie costs $ 10 and each crime novel costs $ 15, you have $ 150.Which is RIGHT according to this passage?A．The maximum number of movies you can see is 10.B．The maximum number of crime novels you can buy is 15.C．You can buy 7 crime novels and see 5 movies.D．You can buy 7 crime novels and see 4 movies.4．What is the best title of this passage?A．Are we really know the economic concept of a budget line?B．The Budget Line as an Economics ConceptC．The Budget Line as an Informal Consumer UnderstandingD．The Complex Concept—Budget Line一、（2022·上海市莘庄中学高三期中）Growing Up in the LibraryI grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way. I was raised in the suburbs of Cleveland, just a few blocks from the brick-faced Bertram Woods branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library system. I went there several times a week with my mother. She and I would walk in together, but as soon as we passed through the door, we each headed towards our favorite sections. The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.Even when I was maybe four or five years old, I was allowed to head off on my own. Then, after a while, my mother and I would reunite at the checkout counter with our finds. Together we'd wait as the librarian pulled out the date card and stamped it with the checkout machine — that giant fist thumping the card with a loud chunk-chunk, printing a crooked due date underneath a score of previous crooked due dates that belonged to other people, other times.Those visits were dreamy, frictionless (没有摩擦的) periods that held the promise of leaving me richer than I'd arrived. It wasn't like going to a store with my mom, which guaranteed a tug-of-war between what I wanted and what my mother was willing to buy me; in the library, I could have anything I wanted.After we had finished checking out the books, I loved being in the car and having all the books we'd gotten stacked on my lap, pressing me under their solid, warm weight, their Mylar covers sticking a bit to my thighs. It was such a thrill leaving a place with things you hadn't paid for; such a thrill expecting the new books we would read. On the ride home, my mother and I talked about the order in which we were going to read our books, a serious conversation in which we planned how to pace ourselves through this charmed period of grace until the books were due.When I was older, I usually walked to the library by myself, lugging back as many books as I could carry. Occasionally, I did go with my mother, and the trip would be as engaging as it had been when I was small. Even when I was in my last year of high school and could drive myself to the library, my mother and I still went together every now and then, and the trip unfolded exactly as it had when I was a child, with all the same beats and pauses and comments and daydreaming, the same perfect rhythm we'd followed so many times before. After my mother passed away two years ago, I plunged into a deep shadow of grief for a long time. When I miss my mother these days, I like to picture us in the car together, going for one more magnificent trip to Bertram Woods, during which we talked, laughed — as if she were still in my company, giving me inexhaustible strength.5．In this passage, the word “autonomy” (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to “________”.A．vitality B．freedom C．inspiration D．entitlement6．After the author and her mother left the library, ________.A．they would plan to read their newly-borrowed books with feverish enthusiasmB．they would have a serious conversation about which book attracted them the mostC．they would be anxious to recommend to each other the books they had borrowedD．they would agree on buying the books they had just borrowed if they enjoyed them7．How does the author feel when she imagines herself in the car with her mother on the way to the library?A．Grieved. B．Shocked. C．Miserable. D．Comforted.8．What would the author most likely go on to write about in the paragraphs immediately following the last paragraph of this article?A．One specific memory of a childhood trip to the library.B．The fond childhood memories of her mother taking good care of her.C．How her affection for going to the library has endured into her own motherhood.D．Why her own child made up their mind to become a librarian after finishing college.二、（2022·上海杨浦·二模）The men glanced around the living room which Hana had taken great pains to decorate properly. A new flowered rug lay on the floor, and fresh white curtains that Kiku had helped Hana sew hung at the windows. The first tight buds of the flowering peach in their yard had begun to bloom, and knowing there would be callers, Hana had arranged a bunch on the table. “We’ ll come right to the point,” a tall red-headed man said without bothering to sit down. “There’ve been some complaints from the neighbourhood about having Japanese on this block,”Taro caught his breath. “I see. Can you tell me who it was that complained?”“Just some of the neighbours.”“What is it that we have done to offend them?”“Well, nothing specific.”Taro looked at each of the men in turn and tried to keep his voice steady. “Gentlemen,” he began. “My wife and I looked many, many months to find a home where we might raise our daughter. When the owner said there would be no objection to our moving in here, we trusted him. It was a dream come true for us. We have already spent much time and money to make this house our home. And now, you would ask us to leave?”Taro dared not stop before he finished all he wanted to say: “I should like to meet those neighbours who object to us,” he said. “Is it any of you gentlemen?”The men looked uncomfortable. “We’re just here to represent them.”“Then please invite them to come talk to me. If they can tell me why we aren’t desirable or why we do not deserve their respect, I shall consider their request. I am the proprietor of Takeda Dry Goods and Grocers on Seventh Street and I would be happy to have them visit my shop as well.”The men glanced uneasily at one another and had nothing more to say.9．The main purpose of the gentlemen’s visit was to ________.A．arrange a meeting for Taro to talk with the angry neighboursB．make Taro aware of the complaints about the family’s decorationsC．tell Taro that his family was not welcome in the neighbourhoodD．extend their welcome to the family to settle in the neighbourhood10．The underlined word “proprietor” is closest in meaning to ________.A．owner B．newcomer C．customer D．caller11．Which description best reflects Taro’s character?A．He was eager to avoid conflicts. B．He was brave to defend his rights.C．He was offensive and disrespectful. D．He was considerate of others’ feelings.12．What social problem is revealed in the story?A．Unsafe neighbourhood. B．Illegal Immigration.C．Housing shortage. D．Racial prejudice.三、（2022·上海市第二中学模拟预测）Having worked at a 7-Eleven store for two years, I thought I had become successful at what our manager calls “customer relations”. I firmly believed that a friendly smile and an automatic “sir”, “ma’ma”, and “thank you” would see me through any situation that might arise, from comforting impatient or unpleasant people to apologizing for giving out the wrong change. But the other night an old woman shattered my belief that a simple and plain response could smooth over the rough spots of dealing with all kinds of customers.The moment she entered, the woman presented a sharp contrast to our shiny store with its bright lighting and neatly arranged shelves. Walking as if each step were painful, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled (蹒跚) down the nearest aisle. She coughed dryly, wheezing (气喘吁吁) with each breath. On a forty-degree night, she was wearing only a faded dress, a thin sweater too small to button, and black slippers with the backs cut out to expose calloused (满是老茧的) heels. There were no stockings or socks on her blue-veined legs. After wandering around the store for several minutes, the old woman stopped in front of the rows of canned vegetables. She picked up a can of corn and stared with a strange intensity at the label. At that point, I decided to be a good, polite employee and asked her if she needed help. As I stood close to her, my smile became harder to maintain; her red-rimmed eyes were partially closed by yellowish crusts (痂); her hands were covered with layer upon layer of dirt, and the stale (陈腐的) smell of sweat rose from clothes.   “I need some food,” she muttered in reply to my bright “Can I help you?”“Are you looking for corn, ma’am?”“I need some food,” she repeated, “Any kind.”“Well, the corn is ninety-five cents,” I said in my most helpful voice. “I can’t pay,” she said.   For a second, I was tempted to say, “Take the corn.” But the employee rules flooded into my mind: Remain polite, but do not let customers get the best of you. Let them know that you are in control. For a moment, I even entertained the idea that this was some sort of test, and that this woman was someone from the head office, testing my loyalty. I responded dutifully, “I’m sorry, but I can’t give away anything for free.”The old woman’s face collapsed a bit more, and her hands trembled as she put the can back on the shelf. She shuffled (拖着脚走) past me toward the door, her torn and dirty clothing barely covering her bent back.   Moments after she left, I rushed out of the door with the can of corn, but she was nowhere in sight. For the rest of my shift, the image of the woman haunted (萦绕) me. I had been young, healthy and proud. She had been old, sick and desperate. Wishing with all my heart that I had acted like a human being rather than a robot, I was saddened to realize how weak a hold we have on our better instincts.13．How did the writer feel about his job at 7-Eleven before the old woman came?A．He was quite satisfied with his service manner.B．He found room for improvement in developing customer relations.C．He considered himself successful in dealing with all interpersonal relations.D．He thought himself experienced after working in the store for two years.14．The detailed account of the old woman is intended to show ________.A．how she presented a sharp contrast to the other customersB．how sick, poor and desperate for help she wasC．how she surprised the writer with her unusual appearanceD．how inappropriate it was for her to enter a place like this15．What’s the meaning of the phrase “get the best of” according to the passage?A．To make the most of. B．To bring out the best of.C．To win an advantage over. D．To bring into full play.16．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A．What If. B．How Come. C．If Only. D．Never Ever.四、It’s an annual argument. Do we or do we not go on holiday? My partner says no because the boiler could go, or the roof fall off, and we have no savings to save us. I say you only live once and we work hard and what’s the point if you can’t go on holiday. The joy of a recession means no argument next year---we just won’t go. Since money is known to be one of the things most likely to bring a relationship to its knees, we should be grateful. For many families the recession means more than not booking a holiday. A YouGov poll of 2,000 people found 22% said they were arguing more with their partners because of concerns about money. What’s less clear is whether divorce and separation rates rise in a recession---financial pressures mean couples argue more but make splitting up less affordable. A recent research shows arguments about money were especially damaging to couples. Disputes were characterised by intense verbal aggression, tended to be repeated and not resolved, and made men, more than women, extremely angry.Kim Stephenson, an occupational psychologist, believes money is such a big deal because of what it symbolizes, which may be different things to men and women. “People can say the same things about money but have different ideas of what it’s for,” he explains. “They’ll say it’s to save, to spend, for security, for freedom, to show someone you love them.” He says men are more likely to see money as a way of buying status and of showing their parents that they’ve achieved something.“The biggest problem is that couples assume each other knows what’s going on with their finances, but they don’t. There seems to be more of a taboo（禁忌）about talking about money than about death. But you both need to know what you’re doing, who’s paying what into the joint account and how much you keep separately. In a healthy relationship, you don’t have to agree about money, but you have to talk about it.”17．What does the author say about vacationing?A．People enjoy it all the more during a recession.B．It is the chief cause of family disputes.C．It makes all the hard work worthwhile.D．Few people can afford it without working hard.18．What does the author mean by saying “ money is known…to bring a relationship to its knees”( Lines1-2, Para.2)?A．Money is considered to be the root of all evils.B．Few people can resist the temptation of money.C．Some people sacrifice their dignity for money.D．Disputes over money may ruin a relationship.19．The YouGov poll of 2,000 people indicates that in a recession ________.A．conflicts between couples tend to riseB．couples show more concern for each otherC．it is more expensive for couples to split upD．divorce and separation rates increase20．The author suggests at the end of the passage that couples should ________.A．put their money together instead of keeping it separatelyB．make efforts to reach agreement on their family budgetsC．discuss money matters to maintain a healthy relationshipD．avoid arguing about money matters to remain romantic五、Just five one-hundredths of an inch thick, light golden in color and with a perfect “saddle curl,” the Lay’s potato chip seems an unlikely weapon for global domination. But its maker, Frito-Lay, thinks otherwise. “Potato chips are a snack food for the world,” said Salman Amin, the company’s head of global marketing. Amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a Frito-Lay potato chip.Frito-Lay is the biggest snack maker in America, owned by PepsiCo. and accounts for over half of the parent company’s $3 billion annual profits. But the U.S. snack food market is largely saturated, and to grow, the company has to look overseas.Its strategy rests on two beliefs: first a global product offers economies of scale with which local brands cannot compete. And second, consumers in the 21st century are drawn to “global” as a concept. “Global” does not mean products that are consciously identified as American, but ones that consumers-especially young people-see as part of a modern, innovative world in which people are linked across cultures by shared beliefs and tastes. Potato chips are an American invention, but most Chinese, for instance, do not know that Frito-Lay is an American company. Instead, Riskey, the company’s research and development head, would hope they associate the brand with the new world of global communications and business.With brand perception a crucial factor, Riskey ordered a redesign of the Frito-Lay logo. The logo, along with the company’s long-held marketing image of the “irresistibility” of its chips, would help facilitate the company’s global expansion.The executives acknowledge that they try to swing national eating habits to a food created in America, but they deny that amounts to economic imperialism. Rather, they see Frito-Lay as spreading the benefits of free enterprise across the world. “We’re making products in those countries, we’re adapting them to the tastes of those countries, building businesses and employing people and changing lives.” said Steve Reinemund, PepsiCo’s chief executive.21．It is the belief of Frito-Lay’s head of global marking that ________.A．potato chips can hardly be used as a weapon to dominate the world marketB．their company must find new ways to promote domestic salesC．the light golden color enhances the charm of their company’s potato chipsD．people the world over enjoy eating their company’s potato chips22．One of the assumptions on which Frito-Lay bases its development strategy is that ________.A．consumers worldwide today are attracted by global brandsB．local brands cannot compete successfully with American brandsC．products suiting Chinese consumers’ needs bring more profitsD．products identified as American will have promising market value23．Why did Riskey have the Frito-Lay logo redesigned?A．To suit changing tastes of young consumers.B．To promote the company’s strategy of globalization.C．To change the company’s long-held marketing image.D．To compete with other American chip producers.24．Frito-Lay’s executives claim that the promoting of American food in the international market ________.A．won’t affect the eating habits of the local peopleB．will lead to economic imperialismC．will be in the interest of the local peopleD．won’t spoil the taste of their chips六、You are checking your emails when you start daydreaming about where to go on your summer holidays. This reminds (提醒，使某人想起) you to compare the cost of local gyms. Then you suddenly decide to look up some place for your birthday party.You may think you are browsing the Internet in a slightly absent-minded manner. You are, in fact, “wilfing”. According to a survey for a financial website, almost seven in ten Internet users admit to the newly named habit. The study of 2400 people carried out by YouGov found that more than a quarter of Internet users wilf–a rough acronym of What Was I Looking For? – for two days every month.Pete Cohen, GMTV’s resident life coach and motivator, said, “Stopping yourself wilfing takes a mixture of planning and willpower. These days there are all manners of website attracting our attention. Internet users need to set themselves a specific surfing goal and a time limit to keep on track.” Shopping in the online activity is most likely to make users wilf. Men are more likely to admit to being wilfers than women. A third of the men questioned said the habit had damaged their relationship with a partner. The good news is that wilfing is a habit people tend to grow out of. Internet users aged 55 or over were three times less likely to wilf than those aged under 25.Jason LIoyed, from moneysupermartet.com, said, “The Internet was designed to make it easier for people to access the information they need quickly and conveniently. Although people log on with a purpose, they are now being offered so much choice and online distractions that many forget what they are there for, and spend hours aimlessly wilfing instead. It’s important that people do not allow unnecessary online distractions to get in the way when surfing on the Internet, as it can affect productivity in the workplace and relationship at home.”Are you a wilfer lost in the Internet?25．The underlined word “acronym” in Para 2 most probably means "_______".A．a phenomenon that makes people daydreamB．a summary of the book “What Was I Looking For?”C．an expression meaning taking people’s attention awayD．a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase26．What is an efficient way to stop wilfing according to the passage?A．Stopping taking a mixture of planning and willpower to keep on track.B．Trying to focus on different subjects at the same time.C．Trying to set a surfing goal and a time limit.D．Logging on the Internet all the time.27．It can be concluded from paragraph 4 that ________.A．men are less likely to be wilfing than womenB．wilfing damages the relationship between partnersC．as you grow older, you will become more and more wilfingD．one third of Internet users will be wilfers lost on the Internet28．What can be called “wilfing” according to the passage?A．You spend hours aimlessly surfing the Internet every day.B．You suddenly decide to look up some information about clothes.C．You are accessing the information you need quickly and conveniently.D．You are browsing some of your emails which haven’t been checked for months.七、Every few years, there’s a hot new management-strategy that promises to make employees happier, healthier and more productive. To that end we’ve seen the rise of positions like chief happiness officer’ as well as workplace dogs and on-site meditation. But while the employers may have improved the office itself, they have not solved the stress itself: the crushing tide of emails and IMs, which-thanks to the rise of smartphones-can pull us back to work, anytime, anywhere.Now, in an effort to prevent burnout, a growing number of employers have started to suggest ways in which employees should unplug their connected devices. The automaker, Volkswagen, in collaboration with its union, sets its servers to stop mobile email service for some workers from 30 minutes after quitting time until 30 minutes before starting time.These measures may sound dramatic and possibly impractical, but there is a data to suggest they are needed. A recent research has suggested that limiting the number of times a day that we check email or work-chat services -- from say 10 or 20 to three or four--can not only reduce stress levels but also increase the overall productivity. But in order for any solution to succeed, workers have to be willing to regulate their own habits. Yet that is especially tough in a country like the U.S., where, being super-busy, or at least appearing to be super-busy, is a point of pride. Even if more U.S employers were to implement the kinds of limits that Volkswagen do, experts are skeptical that they’d work. “If the social norm is to be on all the time, you don’t want to be the odd one out,” says Angela Leaney, a New Jersey-based marketing consultant, adding that some bosses will think less of employees for not answering emails after work hours, even if they say they won’t.Moreover, dictating (强制规定) when and how employees should use their connected devices will inevitably hamper many workers. There are plenty of people who do their best work at 3 a. m. In fact, a majority of working adults say that being able to check work email at home makes it easier to get more done; many also said it improved their relationships with their colleagues.For now, it seems, the best way for employers to foster a fulfilled, productive workforce is to be flexible, both inside and outside the office. One example, although Andy Mon-fried, the CEO and founder of Lotame, a New York-based data management company, says those kinds of time limits wouldn’t work for his business-- it’s too global-- he does give his employees flexibility on when and where they can work. He’s also vigilant (警惕的) about burnout. “I vowed that I would not create a company where people had the Sunday-might blues--the kind where you go to bed sick to your stomach,” he says. “I tell people if that’s happening repeatedly, it’s a sign of work-life imbalance and they should come talk to me.”29．To stop employees from getting exhausted, employers have begun to ________.A．allow pet dogs in the officeB．encourage meditation in the workplaceC．promise to make their staff happier and more productiveD．advise their staff to disconnect their communication devices30．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?A．Volkswagen’s policy will also apply to U.S. companies.B．Employers will find ways to regulate workers’ working habit.C．U.S employers won’t think of contacting employees after work.D．U.S experts cast doubt on the feasibility of limiting connected time.31．The underlined word ‘hamper’ (in paragraph 5) can be best replaced by ________.A．comfort B．harmC．tighten D．relieve32．Which of the following can be inferred from the article?A．Employees applaud the way to cut down their connected time.B．The "time limits" are considered worldwide but not entirely practical.C．Impractical as the measures sound, they will work well for employers.D．Flexibility on when and where to work is the best way to avoid burnout.