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【試題】
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.
【解析】
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.
【正確答案】D
【解題思路】句意推測題。句意推理題需要根據上下句的關係來進行理解，故重點關注題幹的後句。「By this, I’m not advocating…」第二句是作者不認可的觀點，可進行理解，同時也可繼續看下文，即看到四級常考命題點「but」：but I’m arguing that the concept of balance has never been helpful, because it’s too limiting. 由該句可知，工作生活平衡對生活的意義不大，對應答案D選項。
【幹擾選項分析】A中不可能實現完美人生;B中的個人犧牲;C中的doesn’t exist anymore均未體現。
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
【正確答案】A
【解題思路】細節題。根據題幹關鍵詞「use oflanguage」來到文章第一段最後一句。「because it affects our thinking and therefore our actions. 」可得，答案為A，同義改寫+原詞重現。
【幹擾選項分析】其他選項均未體現
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.
【正確答案】C
【解題思路】根據題幹關鍵詞ideal world回到第二段第2句：In the ideal world, we’re all doing work that we’re proud of and that provides meaning and purpose to us.由此句可知，理想狀態下，我們做的工作是能夠提供意義與目標的，對應選項C
【錯誤選項幹擾】A在第二段第一句出現，為minimum最低限制下的內容而非理想狀態，屬於定位錯誤;B中joy在第三句，也不在理想狀態下，定位錯誤;D中的capacity能力未提及。
54. What does the author say about life?
A) It is cyclical.
B) It is fulfilling.
C) it is dynamic.
D) it is risky.
【正確答案】C
【解題思路】細節題。根據題幹的life回到第三段的最後找到定位句：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.有此句可得：作者認為life是一個不斷變化的，對應選項C，動態的。
【幹擾選項分析】選項D在rather than後方，不選;選項B在下一段提到，定位錯誤;A為周期的，未提及。
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.
【正確答案】D
【解題思路】建議題。根據順序原則來到最後一段，注意課上講過的建議的表達形式即可來到第二句：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.有此句可知，讓人們從更好的角度來思考工作生活的滿足感，及對應選項D。且more和better比較級保持一致。
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