2019-2020年上海行知中学高一下英语选词填空专练

A. distinct

ion

E. point

I. v ague

B. ineffici ent F. contact J. support

C. transfer G. fixed K. explorato ry

D. output H. experimen t

A German entrepreneur named Lasse Rheingans has become a subject of attention since The Wall

Street Journal recently reported on a novel idea he has put in place at his 16- person technology start-up: a five -hour workday. They arrive at 8 a.m. and leave at 1 p.m., at which __1__ they 're not expected to work until the next morning.

This __2__ between time in the office and time spent working is critical. In our current age of email and smartphones, work has pervaded （渗透） more and more of our waking hours, making the idea of a （n ） __3__ workday seem quaint （古怪的 ）. We 're driven to these extremes by some __4__ sense that all of this crazy communicating will make us more productive.

Mr. Rheingans is betting that we have this wrong. His experiment is based on the idea that once you remove time -wasting distractions and constrain （约束） __5__ conversation about your work, five hours should be sufficient to accomplish most of the core activities.

To __6__ this new approach, he has employees leave their phones in their bags at the office and blocks access to social media on the company network. Strict rules reduce time spent in meetings. Perhaps most important, his employees now check work email only twice each day.

The Wall Street Journal described it as “radical （激进的 ）. ”H owever, many people are

heartened to see Mr. Rheingans 's idea of short workday and, as was reported this week, Microsoft Japan 's __7__ with a fou-rday week during the summer. It 's not yet clear that these innovations are exactly the right way to run technology companies, or whether they can __8__ to other business contexts. But what is right in this case is the __9__ mind -set that led to these experiments in the first place. If like many digital knowledge workers, you

're exhausted by endless work and

flooded inboxes, the good news is that better and more sustainable ways of producing valuable __10__ with your brain might be coming — if we can find enough visionaries willing to try out

专项训练·词汇 （A ）

“ radical ” new ideas about how best to get things done.

(B)

Contemporary worries about the impact of technology are part of a historical pattern.

Faster, cheaper, better —technology is one field many people rely upon to

of a

offer a __1

brighter future. But as the 2020s __2__, optimism is in short supply. The new technologies that dominated the past decade seem to be making things worse. Social media were supposed to bring people together. In the Arab Spring of 2011 they were hailed ( 赞扬) as a liberating __3__. Today they are better known for invading privacy and undermining democracy. E -commerce, ride-hailing and the gig economy may be convenient, but they are __4__ with underpaying workers and crowding the streets with vehicles. Parents worry that smartphones have turned their children into screen-addicted zombies.

The technologies expected to dominate the new decade also seem to __5__ a dark shadow. Artificial intelligence (AI) may well entrench ( 使根深蒂固) bias and prejudice, threaten your job

and shore up authoritarian rulers. 5G is at the heart of the Sino -American trade war. Autonomous cars still do not work, but manage to kill people all the same. Polls show that internet firms are now less __6__ than the banking industry. At the very moment banks are striving to rebrand