Everybody has an opinion about telecommuting (远程办公). "It won’t work in most jobs", "It costs too much", "It reduces air pollution", "It helps people balance family and work responsibilities", and "Most people are doing it".
In reality, researchers continue to find strong growth and acceptance of telecommuting. Nearly two - thirds of the top 1000 companies in the world have a telecommuting program, and 92 percent say it reduces cost and improves worker productivity (生产力). The days of everyone commuting to the office five days a week are quickly disappearing.
Telecommuting involves a non - traditional work arrangement enabling workers to work at home or elsewhere, some or all of the time. This is not a new, novel, or untested way of working.
But is it for you Telecommuting is not a panacea (万能药). Whether you are a manager, or an HR (Human Resources) specialist, there are decisions to make and actions t
A. They are against it.
B. They don't care about it.
C. They share the same view.
D. They differ in their opinions.
The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1) world health the progress has been surprisingly slow .
Who would believe that there is still no (2) for cancer, that 100 years on diarrhea is still on the top 10 lists of world - wide killers and that tuberculosis usually (3) . Victorian squalor--would have reemerged in the West (4) growing threat
The fact is that despite growing life (5) and economic growth, a billion people entered the 21st century (6) having a share in medical advances--their lives (7) or scarred by disease.
According to the World Health Organization’ s latest report , diarrhea killed 2.2m people in 1998 and yet it is a condition that can easily be (8) through cheap rehydration therapy. It was the sixth biggest killer of 1998, an honour shared with stillbirth and infant deaths (9) cause of death that smacks of the 19
A. between
B. to
C. from
D. with
Even ancient Egypt’s mighty pyramid builders were powerless in the face of the famine that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 BC. Now evidence gleaned from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame-and the same or worse could happen today.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile’s annual floods to irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons southwards out of Ethiopia would have been diminished these floods.
Dwindling rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stablise the soil. When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt, along with sediment from the White Nile.
The Blue Nile mud has a different isotope signature from that of the White Nile. So by analyzing i
A. Because they once worked miracles.
B. Because they were well-built.
C. Because they were actually very weak.
D. Because even they were unable to rescue their civilization.
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