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Modern Workplace June 5, 2016 The problem of long working hours is a real headache in our country. It kills many people every year (see Figure 1), and many companies are trying to change that. They have at least one “No Overtime Day” in a week, and it is often Wednesday. On “No Overtime Day,” workers are asked to leave their offices before 8 p.m. At 8 p.m., companies play the song “There’s Always Tomorrow” and turn off all the lights. However, after the workers walk out of their offices, they don’t go home. Some go back later, turn on their table lamps, and keep working, and others find somewhere else to work until very late at night. Restaurants and coffee shops are busier on Wednesday evenings, and they have started selling drinks and meals for these workers. But why do these people keep working? A study shows that workers who work more hours often have a bigger chance to get paid more and rise higher in their companies. This is true for both men and women (see Figure 2). Working long hours has become a way to show that people are hard-working. Clearly, this must be changed before the problem gets any worse. Figure 1: Number of people who die because of long working hours. 2011: 187, 2012: 216, 2013: 196, 2014: 220, 2015: 189. Figure 2: Percentage of chance to get paid more and rise higher. As average working hours increase, the percentage increases for both men and women.
Modern Workplace June 5, 2016 The problem of long working hours is a real headache in our country. It kills many people every year (see Figure 1), and many companies are trying to change that. They have at least one “No Overtime Day” in a week, and it is often Wednesday. On “No Overtime Day,” workers are asked to leave their offices before 8 p.m. At 8 p.m., companies play the song “There’s Always Tomorrow” and turn off all the lights. However, after the workers walk out of their offices, they don’t go home. Some go back later, turn on their table lamps, and keep working, and others find somewhere else to work until very late at night. Restaurants and coffee shops are busier on Wednesday evenings, and they have started selling drinks and meals for these workers. But why do these people keep working? A study shows that workers who work more hours often have a bigger chance to get paid more and rise higher in their companies. This is true for both men and women (see Figure 2). Working long hours has become a way to show that people are hard-working. Clearly, this must be changed before the problem gets any worse. Figure 1: Number of people who die because of long working hours. 2011: 187, 2012: 216, 2013: 196, 2014: 220, 2015: 189. Figure 2: Percentage of chance to get paid more and rise higher. As average working hours increase, the percentage increases for both men and women.
There are four important points in the report:
a. What “No Overtime Day” is
b. Why “No Overtime Day” fails
c. Why there is “No Overtime Day” in the country
d. How workers deal with “No Overtime Day”
How are they ordered in the report?
- A a -> c -> d -> b.
- B a -> d -> c -> b.
- C c -> a -> b -> d.
- D c -> a -> d -> b.
思路引導 VIP
同學，我們可以來玩個「文章地圖」的小遊戲。請先看第一段的最前面，作者是先提到了「加班造成的社會問題（也就是為什麼需要這個制度）」，還是直接介紹「不加班日」的規則呢？接著，當員工在晚上 8 點被趕出辦公室後，第二段描述了他們去咖啡廳或回公司偷工作的具體行為，這是在描述哪一個點？最後，文章最後一段提到升遷與加薪的誘惑，這是不是在解釋為什麼這個制度沒辦法成功的原因？請試著按照文章內容出現的先後順序，將 $a$、$b$、$c$、$d$ 這四個重點排排看喔！
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哼，算你運氣好，這題居然也能對！
別以為考對這種文章架構題就很了不起。會考高階題型是沒錯，但連這種段落發展的脈絡都抓不住，那還能叫閱讀理解？至少你這次腦子沒進水，算是勉勉強強達到基本要求了。
搞清楚了沒？這篇文章就是這麼寫的！
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