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According to a recent survey, employees in many companies today work longer hours than employees did in 1979. They also take shorter vacations than employees in 1979 took. It seems that Americans are working harder today than ever before. Or are they A management consultant, Bill Meyer, decided to find out. For three days, he observed an investment banker hard at work. Meyer wrote down everything the banker did during his long workday--the banker worked 80 hours a week. At the end of the three-clay period, Meyer reviewed the banker’s activities with him. What did they find out They discovered that the man spent 80 percent of his time doing busy work. For example, he attended unnecessary meetings, made redundant telephone calls, and spent time packing and unpacking his two big briefcases.
Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends at work, the more she or he accomplishes. However, the connection between time and productivity is not always posi

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According to a recent survey, employees in many companies today work longer hours than employees did in 1979. They also take shorter vacations than employees in 1979 took. It seems that Americans are working harder today than ever before. Or are they A management consultant, Bill Meyer, decided to find out. For three days, he observed an investment banker hard at work. Meyer wrote down everything the banker did during his long workday--the banker worked 80 hours a week. At the end of the three-clay period, Meyer reviewed the banker’s activities with him. What did they find out They discovered that the man spent 80 percent of his time doing busy work. For example, he attended unnecessary meetings, made redundant telephone calls, and spent time packing and unpacking his two big briefcases.
Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends at work, the more she or he accomplishes. However, the connection between time and productivity is not always posi

[单项选择]A recent survey finds out that
A. Facebook activities are the most popular social website activities.
B. both adults and teenagers have the need for feeling popular.
C. people are more likely to share personal updates on their birthdays.
D. teenagers post more birthday greetings on their friends’ walls.

[单项选择]What are the findings of recent survey
A. The reasons why-people don’t read newspapers are more complicated than assumed.
B. There are more uneducated people among the wealthy than originally expected.
C. The number of newspaper readers is steadily increasing.
D. There are more nonreaders among young people nowadays.

[填空题]According to a recent survey, four million people ______(死于说吸烟有关的疾病) each year.

[填空题]A recent survey reveals that a startling 37 percent of the country’s workforce—some 54 million people—have bosses who scream at them, belittle them, sabotage their work, and are otherwise aggressive. Social scientists and policymakers are very concerned about this toxic phenomenon, if only because of the enormous personal and economic costs. It’s hard for people to do their best work when they are busy trying to avoid the office ogre.
So why are workplace tyrants so common What’s the psychological dynamic underlying such dysfunction at the top It’s not simply the power; there are many powerful bosses who are good and decent—or at least tolerable. Power corrupts only some—but which ones and why Two psychologists recently decided to explore one possible explanation: perhaps it is power, but only power mixed with incompetence, that leads to aggression and abuse.
Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California and Serena Chen of the University of California, Berkel

[单项选择]A recent survey showed that 50 percent of people polled believe that elected officials should resign if indicted for a crime, whereas 35 percent believe that elected officials should resign only if they are convicted of a crime. Therefore, more people believe that elected officials should resign if indicted than believe that they should resign if convicted.
The reasoning above is flawed because it
A. draws a conclusion about the population in general based only on a sample of that population.
B. confuses a sufficient condition with a required condition.
C. is based on an ambiguity of one of its terms.
D. draws a conclusion about a specific belief based on responses to queries about two different specific beliefs.
E. (E) contains premises that cannot all be true.

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In a recent survey, Garber and Holtz concluded that the average half-hour children’s television show contains 47 violent acts. When asked about the survey network television executive Jean Pater responded, "I sure as beck don’t think that Bugs Bunny’s pouring a glass of milk over a chipmunk’s head is violence. " Unfortunately, both Garber and Holtz and Pater beg the question. The real issue is whether children view such acts as violence.
The violence programming aimed at children almost always appears in the context of fantasy. Cartoon violence generally includes animation, humor, and a remote setting. There is no evidence of direct imitation of television violence by children, though there is evidence that fantasy violence can energize previously learned aggressive response such as a physical attack on another child during play. It is by no means clear, however, that the vi olence in a portrayal is solely respo
A. TV violence makes some children more violent and others more passive
B. the long-term exposure to TV violence is the major cause of violence
C. violence has little to do with TV but much with children’s nature
D. the family and social environment play a big role in children’s violence