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TEXT A
In 1977, the group Women Office Workers held a contest for secretaries, inviting them to name the " most ridiculous personal errand" they’d ever run. As Lynn Peril tells it in "Swimming in the Steno Pool," her light, wry history of the secretarial profession, the winner was a woman whose boss asked her to take pictures of him before, while and after he shaved off his moustache. The runner-up’s task was to pick up her boss’s wife and newborn baby from the hospital.
This is the profession’s image problem: Secretaries have to either cater to their bosses in loopy ways or contend with the idea that they might. Peril, a longtime secretary herself, is frank about how women’s clerical dominance has both helped and hindered them. Her account gives secretaries their due while making clear why they posed a problem for the equal rights movement, and vice versa.
In the late 19th century, when wo
A. Gender difference.
B. Workplace harassment.
C. Workplace personality.
D. Emotional attachment.

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TEXT A
In 1977, the group Women Office Workers held a contest for secretaries, inviting them to name the " most ridiculous personal errand" they’d ever run. As Lynn Peril tells it in "Swimming in the Steno Pool," her light, wry history of the secretarial profession, the winner was a woman whose boss asked her to take pictures of him before, while and after he shaved off his moustache. The runner-up’s task was to pick up her boss’s wife and newborn baby from the hospital.
This is the profession’s image problem: Secretaries have to either cater to their bosses in loopy ways or contend with the idea that they might. Peril, a longtime secretary herself, is frank about how women’s clerical dominance has both helped and hindered them. Her account gives secretaries their due while making clear why they posed a problem for the equal rights movement, and vice versa.
In the late 19th century, when wo
A. To take pictures of the boss after he shaves off his moustache.
B. To pick up the boss’s newborn baby from the hospital.
C. To be chased in the "dandy game" of scuttle.
D. To keep papers and documents in a particular place.

[简答题]There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups.

[填空题]Modern office workers are just like fighter pilots in that both need to monitor data of great complexity.

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Among which age group of women low-dose aspirin therapy can dramatically reduce the risk of cardiovascular events a. 50 and older. b. 50-60. c. 40 and older. d. 40-50.

[单项选择]Office workers who would normally step into a pub or gym to cope with the stress of a working day are being invited instead to sit in front of a painting.
Manchester Art Gallery has recruited two of the country’s leading experts in stress management to choose pictures that are guaranteed to leave even the most frantic feeling at ease with the world. They have created the "tranquility tour" which allows city-centre workers to spend their lunch hour taking a soothing tour of what are described as "some of the most relaxing and inspiring paintings ever committed to canvas". The free tour takes the visitor through several centuries of painting, from the Victorian aesthetic movement, through the Pre-Raphaelite school, to modern abstract art.
Kim Gowland, a gallery executive, said: "Looking at art is a stress-relieving activity. What we are trying to do is encourage people who work in the city to spend haft an hour of their lunchbreak in the gallery, to chill out rather than rush a
A. find out the relation between paintings and stress-easing
B. promote its magnificent collection of British art
C. reduce working people’s stress levels by art appreciation
D. provide an alternative of pastime for consumers

[单项选择]The nurse is teaching a group of women to perform breast self-examination. The nurse should explain that the purpose of performing the examination is to discover（）
A. cancerous lumps.
B. areas of thickness or fullness.
C. changes from previous self-examinations.
D. fibrocystic masses.

[简答题]For workers it promises freedom from the office, less time wasted in traffic, and help with childcare conflicts.