陷入困境英语四级听力原文完整版

2021年1月7日发(作者：颜君)
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Passage one:
Time
I think a lot about time and not just because it’s the name of the news organization I
work for. Like most working people, I find time or the lack of it, are never ending
frustration and an unwinable battle. My every day is a race against the clock that I
never ever seem to win. This is hardly a lonesome complaint, according to the
families and work institutes, national study of the changing work force. 55% of the
employees say they don’t have enough time for themselves, 63% don’t have enough
time for their spouses or partners, and 67% don’t have enough time for their children.
It’s also not a new complaint. I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild
animals and gathering nuts, and complained about how little time they had to paint
battle scenes on their cave walls. The differences about the boresome animal hunting
and ahead of not gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you.
Today’s workers are still demanding control over their time, the differences today’s
bosses are listening. I’ve been reading your report issued today called when work
works, produced jointly by 3 organizations. They set out to find and warn the
employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their
workers flexibility. I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should
read it for ideas.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What is the speaker complaining about?
He’s in a hurry to work everyday and doesn’t have enough spare time.
27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors?
They were busy with finding food outside in order to survive.
28. Why does the speaker suggest all the bosses read the report by the 3 organizations?

Because this report may help them keep their most creative and effective workers
working without too much complaint.
Passage 2
Loving a child is a circular business. The more you give, the more you get. The more
you want to give, Penalaeone said. What she said proves to be true of my blended
family. I was born in 1931as the youngest of 6 children, I learn to share my parents’
love. Raising 6 children during the difficult time of the Great Depression took its toll
on my parents’ relationship and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old.
Daddy never had very close relationship with his children and drifted even farther
away from us after the divorce. Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his
life, and they were married. She had 2 sons. One of them is still at home. Under her
influence we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the
2 families. She always treated us as if we were her own children. It was because of