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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中选出最佳选项。

　　In the past few decades, the popular belief (相信) has been that happy workers are better workers. However, new research at the University of Alberta shows sad workers are more productive.

　　Psychologist Dr. Robert Sinclair and his former Ph. D student Carrie Lavis recently did a series (系列) of four studies on the effects of happiness or sadness on work productivity (生产率) by asking the workers to build circuit boards (电路板). In the first study, sad people made fewer mistakes than happy people did, about half the number of mistakes, but there was no difference in the number of boards completed.

　　In similar studies Sinclair and Lavis found the same results along with fact that happy people might not devote as much energy to the task in order to keep their happy moods (情绪). They thought of that task as something that might take away from their present feelings. On the contrary, sad people appeared to be devoting energy to the task in order to draw away themselves from their sad feelings.“It is important to know that the moods were not with the task,”said Sinclair, “Unhappiness is coming from something else.”

　　These finding are not surprising, said Sinclair, since there has been a growing body of literature (文学) in the area of social psychology (心理学) showing that sad moods lead to more deep thought and often more thoughtful or right judgements.

In Sinclair's studies afterwards, when people believed that the task would make them feel good, they devoted more energy to the job. The bottom line, which must be accepted, said Sinclair, is that it is important for organizations to consider the feelings of their employees (雇员). It seems it could be useful to create situations that lead people to believe that performing their jobs will cause them to feel good—this could cause increases in motivation (动机) and excellent performance.

1．In the passage the writer seems to suggest that ________.

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A．the company should try to make workers realize their jobs will make them feel good

B．the company should try as much as possible to make the workers feel happy

C．workers should devote more energy to their work when they are sad

D．workers should give excellent performance in their jobs

2．When the task makes sad workers feel good, they are ________.

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A．unlikely to feel sad again

B．likely to draw themselves from the sad moods

C．unlikely to make any error

D．likely to make more errors

3．In the last paragraph, the underlined phrase“the bottom line” means ________.

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A．the last important point

B．the result of the research

C．the fact you must accept

D．the lowest line

4．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

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A．A meaningful research.

B．Creating pleasant situation for workers.

C．Moods are connected with workers' performance.

D．Sad workers may make better workers.

Answer 1

答案：A;B;C;D
解析：

1．A　　导解：全文阐述这么一个观点：与工作无关的事情引起心情不快的工人比心情舒畅的工人出的差错少。因此公司要让人们相信，好好工作可以让工人忘掉烦恼，因此选A． 　　2．B　　导解：第三、第五段中作者均提到，心情不快的工人工作时更集中精力，以摆脱那种坏情绪，于是出的差错少了，工作更出色。 　　3．C　　导解：从最后一段加粗部分的解释，“必须接受的是”可知the bottom line指“必须接受的事实”。 　　4．D　　导解：全文讲述工人心情不好时更集中精力工作，此时其工作效率比心情好的工人要高，并提到如何让工人成为好的劳动者，因此选D．