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[简答题]Flexible working hours were invented in Germany in the late 1960s, but reached Britain only in 1972. The system allows workers to start and finish work whenever they want, with only two requirements. Firstly, all workers must be present for certain "key" times in a day, and secondly, all workers must work an agreed total number of hours per week.
[单项选择]A. The working hours were unsuitable.
B. The job was not well paid.
C. He had to do a lot of traveling.
D. He didn’t want to be a travel agent.
[单项选择]A. The working hours were not suitable. B. The job was not well paid.
C. He had to do a lot of traveling. D. The job was quite difficult.
[单项选择]Britons are working longer hours than they did a decade ago, but are less productive than their counterparts in the United States and continental Europe, according to a survey released today.
The research, conducted by the Economic and Social Research Council, a government-financed agency, discloses several work-force myths, including the notion that gold-watch employees who spend their entire careers with one company are a dying breed, and that the new economy has created a transient work force made up of professional freelancers who jump from job to job. Policy makers in Britain have promoted the idea of a more flexible work force, in which people held more part-time or temporary jobs and often worked from home, as one benefit of the new economy. The new type of employee even got a new name—the portfolio worker—and was supposed to benefit from a more flexible schedule and shorter hours.
But like so much of the new economy that appears to be more wishful thinking than fa
A. Americans are more efficient than Britons in manufacturing output.
B. Frenchmen are more efficient than Britons in manufacturing output.
C. Britons spend more time in their job than their forefathers.
D. Britons spend more time in their job than Americans.
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W: Were you hard-working when you were in high school, David
M: Yes, I studied hard. But I also liked football and music.
What is true about David when he was a high school student（ ）.
A. He studied hard.
B. He liked football.
C. He liked music.
D. All of the above.
[单项选择]What are the basic working hours per week
A. 36 hours.
B. 38 hours.
C. 40 hours.
D. 44 hours.
[单项选择]Passage ThreeA. Workers’ long working hours. B. Workers’ poor working conditions.
C. The low rate of inflation. D. The high level of unemployment.
[单项选择]A. Alcohol drinking during working hours is strictly forbidden.
B. Anyone who drinks beer on the job will be dismissed immediately.
C. A warning Session will be conducted if an employee is late for work.
D. Anyone who is late for work must go and see a professional counselor.
[单项选择]One of the advantages of flexible working hours is that
A. pressure from work can be reduced.
B. working women can have more time at home.
C. traffic and commuting problems can be solved.
D. personal relationships in offices can be improved.
[单项选择]Friedrich Dobl, a Yugoslav working in Germany, was fed up with traffic jams. At long weekends and holiday times when he wanted to (47)______ quickly, he always found himself behind hundreds of other cars moving (48)______ along the notorious foreign workers route through Germany and Austria.
How easy it all was for police and emergency services. A siren, a flashing light And like magic everyone was (49)______ of the way. Going home from work one night he passed a garage. And there in front of him was the answer to his problem. An old ambulance was (50)______. The red cross had been removed, but not the flashing light, and the (51)______. He tried the light. It flashed magnificently. He tried the siren. That too sounded impressive. He bought the (52)______ and opened up for himself a dream world of motoring.
It began early in the morning, all his luggage in the back of the ambulance and motorway in Germany looking reasonably clear. Soon, as always, a lone line of traffic (53)_
