Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
问题1选项
A.It helps employees to reduce their stress.
B.It prevents employees from feeling bored.
C.It strengthens harmony among employees.
D.It helps employees to view things positively.
问题2选项
A.Weekends are conducive to reducing stress.
B.Humor is vital to interpersonal relationships.
C.All workers experience some emotional stress.
D.Humor can help workers excel at routine tasks.11.
问题3选项
A.Smash the toys to release their bottled-up resentments.
B.Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it.
C.Design and install stress-reducing gadgets.
D.Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like.
Passage One “Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison which they are paroled every Friday,” says Joel Goodman, founder of the Humor Project, a humor consulting group in Saratoga Springs, New York. Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job. According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, an office with humor breaks is an office with satisfied and productive employees. [10] Pollio conducted a study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production tasks. Employees perform better when they have fun. In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress. “Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization,” says Lynn M. Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for Saint Mary’s Health Center in Saint Louis. Kodak’s Rochester, New York branch discovered a way for its 20,000 employees to uncork their bottled-up resentments. [9] Their 1,000-square-foot humor room features a toy store. Among the room’s many stress-reducing gadgets, the main attraction is a boss doll with detachable arms and legs. [11] Employees can take the doll apart as long as they put its arms and legs back in place. Sandy Cohen, owner of a graphic print production business, created the quote board to document the bizarre phrases people say when under strict deadlines. “When you’re under stress, you say stupid things,” says Cohen. Now we just look at each other and say “That’s one for the quote board”.
9. What does the passage say about humor in the workplace? 【试题答案】A 【试题解析】题目问关于职场中的幽默，这篇短文说了什么？录音提到了职场幽默的例子，其中一个是柯达纽约罗彻斯特分公司的humor room“幽默房间”，该房间里有很多让人减轻压力的物件（stress-reducing gadgets），其中之一是可拆卸的“老板玩偶”。由此可知，职场的幽默可以让人减轻压力，A选项“它能帮助员工减轻压力”与录音原文表述一致，因此正确。B选项“它让员工不再无聊”；C选项“它使员工之间的关系更和谐”和D选项“它帮助员工积极地看待事物”在录音中均没有信息提及，所以可排除。 10. What does the study by Howard Pollio show? 【试题答案】D 【试题解析】题目问Howard Pollio的研究表明了什么？录音提到Howard Pollio的研究证明了幽默能帮助员工出色地完成日常的工作任务（humor can help workers excel at routine production tasks），D选项“幽默可以帮助员工在日常工作中表现出色”是录音原文的复现，因此正确。A选项“周末有助于减轻压力”和B选项“幽默对人际关系极其重要”在录音中均没有信息提及；C选项“所有的员工均遭受情绪压力”，这并不是Howard Pollio的研究结论，因此可排除。 11. What can Kodak’s employees do in the humor room? 【试题答案】B 【试题解析】题目问柯达的员工在“幽默房间”可以做什么事？录音提到了humor room中有可拆卸的“老板玩偶”，员工可以把“老板玩偶”拆掉，不过拆后得把玩偶的手和脚拼回去。B选项中的reassemble it“重新组装”对应录音的put its arms and legs back in place，因此B选项“把‘老板玩偶’拆掉，拆后再重新组装”正确。A选项“把玩具砸碎以发泄满腔怨恨”和D选项“狠狠地揍‘老板玩偶’，多狠都可以”表述过于绝对，忽略了“拆后重新组装”这个条件，因此不正确；C选项“设计、安装减轻压力的物件”在录音中没有提及，因此可排除。
