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Pros ● You are free to do as you please. ● There is no commute. ● No one looks over your shoulder. ● If you are married or have children at home, this type of work situation could be especially convenient for you Cons ● You are the only person around all day, so there is no outside pressure to be busy. ● Working at home can be dirty and can take up a whole spare room in your home. ● You don’t have enough chances to communicate with your co-workers, so it is more difficult to find out about new projects you might be interested in. ● There is a danger of putting in too many hours or overworking. Tips for working at home Working out of your home can be a great solution for certain people. I have worked in an office and in my own study, and I think it takes special discipline (纪律) to work at home. You need to ask yourself, “Does this work style fit in with what I want and how I am most productive?” If you do work at home, it is important to remember: ● Go to the main office often. Report back often and let your boss know you are alive and productive. ● Treat your study (or wherever you work) like a real office. Close the door at 6 p.m. and don’t open it until you are beginning work the next morning. ● Get dressed as you would for work and be consistent with your hours. Act as if you were at the office. 64. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 shows that ________. A. working in the office has advantages and disadvantages B. God bless you when you work out of your home C. working in the office is a complicated thing D. working out of your home will not be blessed 65. We can infer from the passage that ________. A. you can do what you like when you work out of the office B. you have no outside pressure to be busy if you work at home C. no one will always order you to work harder if you work at home D. it is very boring and is not productive when you work at home 66. Which statement is TRUE according to the passage? A. A single man will not be allowed to work at home. B. You can’t recognize your co-workers when you work at home. C. It’s dangerous if you are allowed to work alone out of your office D. It’s not easy to get the information you want when working at home. 67. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A. Working at Home is Right or Wrong? B. My Experience of Working at Home C. The Pros and Cons of Working at Home D. Working at Home or in the Office? D An autistic child is a child who has autism (自闭症). The person who has autism is unable to communicate and form relationships with others. Catching autism will seriously limit the development of children’s social and communication skills. Recently two medical reporters came out telling people more information that can help doctors confirm that a child has autism. One author of the reports, Chris Johnson from the University of Texas Health Science Center, says that doctors should look for signs of autism when they examine babies at both eighteen months and twenty-four months. Doctors traditionally consider the possibility of autism only when a child shows delayed (滞后的) speech or unusual behavior repeated over and over. These may be clear signs of it, but these clear signs usually do not appear until a child is two or three years old. Doctor Johnson says earlier signs of autism have been learned. She says the identification process (识别过程) can begin in the waiting room at a doctor’s office. Parents could answer some written questions about their babies. Then the doctor can perform tests to see if the baby can follow moving things with its eyes. Experts can also pay attention to behavior of the babies under the age of one year. For example, does the baby respond to its parents’ voices quickly? Does the baby point at things? Children usually have favorite soft things such as a soft animal. But autistic children like hard things instead and prefer holding them all the time. They may not respond when their parents call their names or when their parents point at something, saying “Look at that”. Traditionally, parents and doctors will “wait and see” to confirm a child has autism, but Doctor Johnson says the intervention (介入) should be as early as possible. And experts say that all children should be tested for autism before the age of two. (责任编辑：admin) |