Caught Twittering of on Facebook at work? It’ll make you a better employee．An Australian study shows that surfing the internet for fun during office hours increases productivity．
The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive than those who do not．the study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said “workplace Internet leisure browsing(工作时的网络休闲)”， or WILB, helped to sharpen workers’ concentration．“People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,” Coker said on the university’s website(www．unimelb．edu．au/)．“Short breaks, such as quick surf of the Internet, enable the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a day’s work, and as a result, increase productivity,” he said．
According to the study of 300 workers, 70 percent of people who use the Internet at work engage in WILB．Among the most popular WILB activities are searching for information about products, reading online news, playing online games and watching videos on YouTube．
“Many firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos, using networking sites or shopping online under the pretence that it costs millions in lost productivity,” said Coker．“That’s not always the case．”
However, Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation(适度), or were on the Internet for less than 20 percent of their total time in the office．“Those who behave with Internet addiction tendencies will have a lower productivity than those without,” he said．
(1)
What does the passage mainly tell us?
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A．
What we should do with our leisure time?
B．
How to surf the internet for fun during office hours．
C．
Why we should surf the internet for fun during office time．
D．
Moderately surfing the Internet for fun during work can improve working efficiency．
(2)
Why can surfing the internet for fun during office hours increase productivity?
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Workers are tired of work and want to rest．
B．
Workers can learn some work skills on the Internet．
C．
It makes people relax and regain concentration on work．
D．
It contributes to improving the relationship between bosses and workers．
(3)
All the following statements are true EXCEPT __________．
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The research was made by the University of Melbourne．
B．
Most firms allow their employees to use the Internet for fun．
C．
Most people in the research surf the Internet for fun during work．
D．
Popular WILB activities are watching videos, shopping online and so on．
(4)
From the passage we can know that __________．
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The workers engaged in WILB aren’t fit for their work．
B．
Brent Coker is a successful boss who can accept the research results．
C．
Surfing the Internet long hours for fun won’t increase productivity．
D．
Many firms’ preventing employees’ WILB contributes to high productivity．
(5)
Which section of a newspaper do you think the passage is taken from?
Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”
Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．
The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．
Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．
Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．
When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．
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According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．
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A．
who se parent ha s experienced a head injury
B．
who have lived in a foreign country for a long time
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who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke
D．
who have learned foreign language from their coworker s
(2)
If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．
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A．
hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him
B．
he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again
C．
he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s
D．
hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent
(3)
Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．
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A．
introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information
B．
warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke
C．
make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured
D．
tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War
