【实例讲解】托福综合写作备考练习题-老美的四天工作制.pdfVIP

【实例讲解】托福综合写作备考练习题 - 老美的四天工作制 托福综合写作 (Integrated Writing) 长期以来都是托福考试的难点之一，全面考察考生快速阅读、听取关键信息和原文复述的能 力。由于阅读和听力实力较弱导致综合写作失分严重，想要提升却不得其法。从传统备考思路看提升阅读 和听力固然没错，但如何在有限的时间内加强针对性、高效提分才是关键。下面就为大家带来托福综合写 作的阅读材料，希望在练习中能不断提升大家的托福综合写作能力。 托福综合写作阅读材料： In the United States, employees typicallywork five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want towork a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. Amandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of workinga four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay wouldbenefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employeeswho decided to take the option. 在美国，职员一般执行的一周五天，每天八小时工作制。然而，很多职员希望能够改为四天工作制， 如果能够满足需要可以接受薪水降低。要求企业提供薪水八成工作四天的工作方式供员工选择对于国家整 个经济都是有好处的，同时获益的还有个人，以及执行这个政策的公司。 The shortened workweek would increasecompany profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as aresult, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff toensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result inadditional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworkedand error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase companyprofits. 减少工作日会提高公司的利润，因为员工们会感到很轻松和精神，这样他们就会在工作中较少犯那些 可能会带来损失的错误。为了完成同样的工作量将需要雇佣更多的人手，但是这不意味着需要支付更多的 薪水，这是因为四天工作日只需支付给每个员工 80%的工资。这样，公司花同样的钱，员工这会过于劳累和 失误连连了，这样将会提高公司的利润。 For the country as a whole, one of theprimary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduceunemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, someof their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every fouremployees who went on an 80 percent week,