Telecommuting(远程办公) will have major effects on the worlds of work and family life. However, its biggest effect will be in the area of individual freedom, responsibility and time management.

Work and workplaces will change greatly. Offices may become smaller, as fewer desks are needed. There will be greater need for high-speed Internet connections to link the office and the home, and even homes to other homes, as other employees also begin working at home. Hours spent in traffic jams, and fights for parking should diminish, as workers travel less.

Family life will also change. Both husbands and wives will be able to arrange their work around family commitments such as taking children to school, cooking, spare time activities, and so on. However, households(家人) will also have to set aside areas for work-particularly if more than one person is telecommuting.

However, although the ideas of more time at home and less time traveling are attractive, there are some drawbacks to telecommuting. People may feel that they cannot escape from work, work longer hours, or become less social. The quality of work may suffer because of fewer face-to-face interactions with other employees, and there may be delays if other workers are not immediately available. Telecommuters may also feel isolated. A major change will be in the way people think about work as a place or an institution. Instead, they will focus on the task or the product. Workers may feel less loyal to a company.

In conclusion, the effects are difficult to predict because they depend on the extent to which telecommuting becomes popular. At the same time, however, telecommuting could be the start of a major societal shift, possibly as big as the Industrial Revolution which created our present ideas of work.

64. This passage was mainly written to tell us _____.

        A. about the advantages of telecommuting               

B. how telecommuting will change the world

        C. that telecommuting will affect family life            D. how to telecommute in the future

65. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

        A. The disadvantages of telecommuting.                  B. Setting aside areas for work.

        C. The future of telecommuting.                             D. The employees’ focus on work.

66. With telecommuting in the future, which of the following will be reduced?

        A. Working hours and family time.                         B. Face-to-face communication.

        C. Spare time and individual freedom.                            D. Spending time with friends.

67. What can we infer from the passage?

        A. Telecommuting will change the world completely.

        B. There will be no traffic jams because of telecommuting.

        C. Work efficiency will increase through telecommuting.

        D. Telecommuting workers will likely change their jobs.

.Slang words (俚语) are made _____ special groups,such as workers and musicians.

I lay there buried alive under our house when the bomb hit our city. The great 21 started by the bomb came nearer and nearer to us as workers tried to  22  us. “Hurry!” they cried to one another as the flames (火焰) came nearer. At last they reached us and  23 me and my mother out from under everything  24  the flames reached us.

Later, as I thought of the pilot of the plane that 25 the bomb on our city, I cried, “I hate him. I hate him.” The people with marked faces from the  26 of the bomb made me cry, “I hate him.” I saw people suffering (遭受) a terrible,  27 death. Again and again I cried as I saw these people, “I hate him!”

Some time later, that man appeared in a meeting I  28 .As I looked at him, I  29  him very much. Then I listened to what he told us of his  30  the day when he dropped the bomb on our city. I heard him say, “When I flew over the city  31  we dropped the bomb, I cried, ‘Oh, God, what have I    32  ’.” I could see that he found it  33  to speak of that day.

As this happened I suddenly  34  my hatred (仇恨) of him was  35 . It only made me unhappy also. As I did this, it was as if a heavy load (负担)  36  my shoulders. Then I decided to  37 him. I did so and my life was  38  .

I now help those who suffer from  39  other people. I try to help them to  40  everyone, as I am now able to do.

1.A．sound                   B．heat                               C．fire                        D．light

2.A．call                        B．reach                       C．find                      D．help

3.A．put                        B．sent                               C．pulled                   D．brought

4.A．after                              B．as                                   C．when              D．before

5.A．made                             B．dropped                        C．attacked             D．set

6.A．noise                              B．energy                          C．effect                   D．power

7.A．slow                               B．serious                          C．sad                       D．hard

8.A．joined                   B．took                               C．attended             D．gave

9.A．hated                             B．feared                           C．honored              D．believed

10.A．activity              B．idea                               C．experience             D．opinion

11.A．when                           B．after                              C．as                          D．before     

12.A．got                               B．heard                                C．done           D．seen

13.A．difficult              B．easy                               C．useless                D．proud

14.A．imagined                    B．realized                        C．knew               D．thought

15.A．right                 B．funny                    C．necessary      D．wrong

16.A．took away     B．took off               C．fell off           D．fell on

17.A．forgive(原谅)      B．kill                C．defeat           D．accept

18.A．balanced                 B．changed               C．continued      D．ruined

19. A．punishing     B．hurting                C．disliking         D．hating

20.A．respect                B．love                  C．consider     D．move

I visited the nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work is now done by robots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing, and many other jobs are performed by robots now.

The whole dashboard (仪表板) of the car is now put into the car from above, through the windshield, by a robot. It would have taken two men to do this in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit. It got me thinking: is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? On one hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They aren’t likely to make many mistakes, and if something goes wrong with one car, an alarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing, every time, without fail. A human worker is never able to do exactly the same thing every time. On the other hand, robots also reduce costs for companies. Companies don’t have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (补偿) if they’re broken. If something in a robot does go wrong, it won’t have to take time off work for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breaks his back or burn himself while welding.

The obvious downside to all of this is that it increases the unemployment rate. The company will have to bring in some very talented individuals who know how to operate the robots. Unlike regular factory workers, these intelligence workers usually demand a higher pay.

1.We can learn from the first paragraph that _______.

A．all the workers are replaced by robots now   B．robots do much of the work instead of workers now C．there were no workers in the car factory        D．the author’s uncle made robots in the factory

2.According to the text robots _______.

A．can do work as accurately as workers        B．never break down   C．can do exactly the same thing repeatedly  D．ask for less money from companies

3.The underlined word "downside" in the last paragraph probably means "_______".

A．weakness         B．favor             C．assistance         D．strength

4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A．companies refuse to pay for intelligence workers                 B．robots have helped all of the workers C．robots can help solve the problem of unemployment           D．using robots in factories widely will have a long way to go

5.What is the author’s attitude towards using robots in factories?

A．He is doubtful about it.                   B．He thinks it necessary. C．He is strongly against it.   D． The text doesn’t mention it.

I lay there buried alive under our house when the bomb hit our city. The great 21 started by the bomb came nearer and nearer to us as workers tried to 22 us. “Hurry!” they cried to one another as the flames (火焰) came nearer. At last they reached us and  23 me and my mother out from under everything  24 the flames reached us.
Later, as I thought of the pilot of the plane that 25 the bomb on our city, I cried, “I hate him. I hate him.” The people with marked faces from the  26 of the bomb made me cry, “I hate him.” I saw people suffering (遭受) a terrible,  27 death. Again and again I cried as I saw these people, “I hate him!”
Some time later, that man appeared in a meeting I  28 .As I looked at him, I  29  him very much. Then I listened to what he told us of his  30  the day when he dropped the bomb on our city. I heard him say, “When I flew over the city  31  we dropped the bomb, I cried, ‘Oh, God, what have I    32 ’.” I could see that he found it  33  to speak of that day.
As this happened I suddenly  34  my hatred (仇恨) of him was  35 . It only made me unhappy also. As I did this, it was as if a heavy load (负担)  36 my shoulders. Then I decided to  37 him. I did so and my life was  38 .
I now help those who suffer from  39 other people. I try to help them to  40  everyone, as I am now able to do.