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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.
Why do people think that more communication is always a good thing?
选项 A、Because the concept is firmly believed by workers.
B、Because everyone loves to communicate with others.
C、Because the idea has been instilled into people’s mind.
D、Because communication is vital for building relationships.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。定位句提到，这种态度源自一个假设，这个假设灌输给了不同的人，即更多的沟通永远是一件好事。C)中的has been instilled into与定位句中的is drummed into属于同义替换，均意为“被灌输给”，故为答案。A)“因为这一概念为上班族所深信”，定位句中提到了上班族，该段第三句中也提到沟通越多越好这一原则不会受到质疑，显然，上班族也认可这一原则，但人们认可这一原则并非因为上班族的认可，本项属于张冠李戴，故排除；B)“因为人人都喜欢与他人沟通”属于绝对表述，故排除；D)“因为沟通对于建立关系而言至关重要”，本项符合常识但文中并没有提到相关内容，故排除。
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