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  3. Every office worker hates meetings. But it’s a strange sort of hate, similar to the hatred of Londoners for the Northern Line, o

Every office worker hates meetings. But it’s a strange sort of hate, similar to the hatred of Londoners for the Northern Line, o

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问题     Every office worker hates meetings. But it’s a strange sort of hate, similar to the hatred of Londoners for the Northern Line, or New Yorkers for tourists who walk too slowly: the dislike is real, yet if the despised thing were to vanish, it’d be like surrendering a piece of your soul.
    When researchers probed into why people put up with the strain that meetings place on their time and sanity, they found something surprising—those who resent and dread meetings the most also defend them as a "necessary evil" , sometimes with great passion. True, research suggests that meetings take up vastly more of the average manager’s time than they used to. True, done badly, they’re associated with lower levels of innovation and employee wellbeing (幸福). But that’s just office life, right? It’s not supposed to be fun. That’s why they call it work.
    Underlying (引起) this attitude is an assumption that’s drummed into us not just as workers but as children, parents and romantic partners: that more communication is always a good thing. So suggestions abound for (大量存在) communicating better in meetings—for example, hold them standing up, so speakers will come to the point more quickly. But even when some companies consider abolishing meetings entirely, the principle that more communication is better isn’t questioned. If anything, it’s reinforced when such firms introduce "flat" management structures, with bosses always available to everyone, plus plenty of electronic distraction. In fact, constant connectivity is disastrous for both job satisfaction and the bottom line.
    And anyway, once you give it three seconds’ thought, isn’t it clear that more communication frequently isn’t a good thing? Often, the difference between a successful marriage and a second-rate one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. At work, it’s surely many more than four, though for a different reason: office communication comes at the cost of precisely the kind of focus that’s essential to good work. Yet we’re so accustomed to seeing talking as a source of solutions—for resolving conflicts or finding new ideas—that it’s hard to see when it is the problem.
What does the author say about meetings?
选项 A、Londoners hate them as well as the Northern Line.
B、They can help to keep workers’ physical and spiritual health.
C、Workers might be reluctant to give up them completely.
D、New Yorkers dislike meetings more than Londoners.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。作者首先指出“每个办公室工作人员都讨厌会议”这一现象，接着第二句对该现象进行具体阐述，指出上班族的矛盾心态；不喜欢是真的，但是如果被鄙视的东西消失了，那就会像是失去了一部分灵魂一样。由此推断，虽然不喜欢开会，但上班族也并不愿意彻底取消会议，故答案为C)。A)“伦敦人既讨厌会议又憎恨北线”，该段第二句用了比喻手法，只是将上班族对会议的讨厌与伦敦人对北线的厌恶进行类比，无法得出伦敦人讨厌两者的结论，故排除；B)“他们有助于上班族的身心健康”，首段第二句提到“那就会像是失去了一部分灵魂一样”，此处是对如果取消会议，上班族如何做出反应的比喻，与身心健康无关，故排除；D)“纽约人讨厌会议甚于讨厌伦敦人”，由第二句可知两者之间并无关联性，故排除。
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