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各位四級考生大家好，今年四級的本篇閱讀以社會生活中常見的一種現象，「工作與生活之間的平衡」為主要話題，考查的細節題居多，其中還有一道語意題。本篇文章難度不大，除54題考查選項詞意，難度有所提升外，其餘四道題目均可從原文找到相對應的原詞或者簡單的同義替換詞句。下面我們來看一下原文以及參考答案和做題思路。
原文：
Work-life balance is dead. By this, I’m not advocating that you should give up your quest to have a fulfilling career and a thriving personal life, and I am definitely not saying that you have to give up one to have the other. I also acknowledge that we have a work-life problem, but I’m arguing that the concept of balance has never been helpful, because it’s too limiting. You see, language makes a difference, and how we refer to things matters because it affects our thinking and therefore our actions.
At the minimum, most of us work because we want to be able to support ourselves, our families, and the people around us. In the ideal world, we’re all doing work that we’re proud of and that provides meaning and purposeto us. But even if your job doesn’t give you shivers of joy with each new day, working is a part of what each of us does and the contribution we make to society. When you separate work and life, it’s a little bit harder to make that connection. But when you think of work as part of a full life and a complete experience, it becomes easier to see that success in one aspect often supports another.
Losing your balance and falling isn’t pleasant. A goal to balance suggests that things could get off balance, and that causes terrible outcomes. It’s more constructive to think of solutions that continue to evolve over shifts in life and work. Rather than falling or failing, you may have good days or better days or not-so-good days. These variations are normal, and it’s more useful to think of life as something that is ever evolving and changing, rather than a high-risk enterprise where things could go wrong with one misstep.
How we talk to ourselves matters, and how we talk about issues makes a difference. Let’s bury 「work-life balance」 and think bigger and better about work-life fulfillment to do a little less balancing and a lot more living.
51.What does the author suggest by saying 「The work-life balance is dead」?
A) The hope of achieving a thriving life is impossible to realize.
B)The pursuit of a fulfilling career involves personal sacrifice.
C) The imbalance between work and life simply doesn’t exist anymore.
D) The concept of work-life balance contributes little to a fulfilling life.
52. What does the author say about our use of language?
A) It impacts how we think and behave.
B) It changes with the passage of time.
C) It reflects how we communicate.
D) It differs from person to person
53.What does the author say we do in an ideal world?
A) We do work that betters the lives of our families and friends.
B) We do work that gives us bursts of joy each new day.
C) We do meaningful work that contributes to society.
D) We do demanding work that brings our capacity into full play.
54. What does the author say about life?
A) It is cyclical.
B) It is fulfilling.
C) it is dynamic.
D) it is risky.
55. What does the author advice us to do?
A) Make life as simple as possible
B) Talk about balance in simpler terms.
C)Balance life and work in a new way.
D) Strive for a more fulfilling life.
51. 「工作-生活平衡，這樣的觀點已經不行了」，作者說這句的意思是什麼?
A) 實現蒸蒸日上的生活的希望是不可能實現的
B) 對一份充滿成就的事業的追求包含了個人犧牲
C) 工作和生活的失衡不再存在
D) 工作-生活平衡的概念對充滿成就的生活幾乎作用不大
[試題類型] D 語意題
[解題思路] 首先根據題幹信息中引號部分的內容可以直接定位到第一句話，緊接著通過下一句的this可知下文與上句有關。但是下文兩個and並列的句子均為否定「I’m not advocating」和「I am definitely not saying」，所以可以認定這兩個句子為題幹的無關信息，真正的答案還可以繼續往下找。緊接著第三句的後半句出現了關鍵信息「but, I’m arguing that ...」.那麼這道題的關鍵信息就在這裡，對應選項即可發現選項D和該句可以對應。「contributes little」和原文中「has never been helpful」相對應。
52. 作者是怎麼看待我們對語言的使用的?
A) 它影響我們的思考和行動
B) 它隨著時間的推移而改變
C) 它反映了我們交流的方式
D) 它會因人而異
[試題類型] A 細節題
[解題思路] 題幹的關鍵詞是language，所以可以定位到第一段的最後一句，將最後一句和四個選項對應會發現A中的impact和原文的affect是對應的，think是原詞對應，behave和原文的actions對應，所以答案就很明顯了。
53. 作者是如何看待我們在理想世界中做的事?
A) 我們的工作是改善我們的家人和朋友的生活
B) 我們所做的工作讓我們每一天都充滿歡樂
C) 我們做一些對社會有意義的工作
D) 我們做要求高的工作，充分發揮我們的能力。
[試題類型] C 細節題
[解題思路] 本題定位在第二段的第二句。由於第三句緊跟著but表示轉折關係，後面說的是重點內容，所以這兩句都是需要參考的答案區域。根據這兩句話的理解「我們都在做自己引以為傲的工作，這為我們提供了意義和目標。但是，即使你的工作不能讓你在每一天都感到快樂激動，工作也是我們每個人工作的一部分，也是我們對社會的貢獻」，和選項C的意義相同，同時也有明顯的原詞對應。
54. 作者是如何看待生活的?
A) 是循環的
B) 是充實的.
C) 是動態的
D) 是危險的.
[試題類型] C 細節題
[解題思路] 根據題幹的信息「life」可以對應到文章的第三段，在本段的最後一句「it's more useful to think of life as something that is ever evolving and changing」, 其中的think as對應題幹所問的看法，所以本題的精準定位就在此句。另外本題難度在於考查原文中的evolving和changing以及四個選項的意思，所以只要找到定位並且知道這些選項的意思，這道題就會簡單許多。evolving「進化」和changing「改變」，即和選項中的dynamic對應。
55. 作者建議我們做什麼?
A) 讓生活儘可能地簡單化
B) 用更簡單的術語來談論平衡
C) 用一種新方式來平衡工作和生活
D) 為一種更充實的生活而奮鬥
[試題類型] D 細節題
[解題思路] 上一道題定位到了第三段的末尾，按照題文同序的原則該往下一段尋找定位了。而最後一段的第二句「let’s ...」祈使句句式則對應選項中的advice，所以根據這一句話或者是這一句中所體現的對比關係可知，作者建議弱化「work-life balance」，而在建議「work-life fulfillment」，所以對應選項中的a more fulfilling life。
通過本篇文章及其題目可以發現，在閱讀中考查文章細節的題目比較多，而做對這類題的關鍵則在於找準定位，對應選項。在對應選項的過程中也會出現簡單或者稍微複雜一些的同義詞句替換。所以準備四級的同學們一定需要注意在閱讀中，踏踏實實積累單詞以及綜合一定的技巧方法是相輔相成的，平常的學習練習中，二者要注意同步提升。
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