四级模拟卷 1 · 仔细阅读（第1篇）打字练习
← 返回文章列表
📝 您未登录，本网站登录后完成练习可保存成绩、查看最佳记录。
总字符
0
正确字符
0
错误字符
0
错误率
0.00%
耗时(秒)
0
速度 WPM
0
Every office worker hates meetings. But it’s a strange sort of hate, similar to the hatred of Londoners for the
Northern Line, or New Yorkers for tourists who walk too slowly: the dislike is real, yet if the despised thing were
to vanish, it’d be like surrendering a piece of your soul.
When researchers probed into why people put up with the strain that meetings place on their time and sanity,
they found something-those who resent and dread meetings the moat also defend them as a “necessary evil”,
sometimes with great passion. True, research suggests that meetings take up vastly more of the average manager’s
time than they used to. True, done badly, they’re associated with lower levels of innovation and employee
wellbeing (幸福) .But that’s just office life , right? It’s not supposed to be fun. That’s why they call it work.
Underlying(引起) this attitude is an assumption that’s drummed into us not just as workers but as children,
parents and romantic partners; that more communication is always a good thing. So suggestions abound for (大量
存在) communicating better in meetings-for example, hold them standing up, so speakers will come to the point
more quickly. But even when some companies consider abolishing meetings entirely, the principle that more
communication is better isn’t questioned. If anything, it’s reinforced when such firms introduce “flat” management
structures, with bosses always available to everyone, plus plenty of electronic distraction. In fact, constant
connectivity is disastrous for both job satisfaction and the bottom line.
And anyway, once you give it three seconds’ thought , isn’t it cleat that more communication frequently isn’t
a good thing? Often, the difference between a successful marriage and a second-rate one consists of leaving about
three or four things a day unsaid. At work, it’s surely many more than four, though for a different reason; office
communication comes at the cost of precisely the kind of focus that’s essential to good work. Yet we’re so
accustomed to seeing talking as a source of solutions-for resolving conflicts or finding new ideas-that it’s hard to
对照上方逐行输入，绿色=正确、红色=错误