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  3. 【F1】An editor I know once told me that on a weekday afternoon, during a period when he was freelancing, he looked out from the r

【F1】An editor I know once told me that on a weekday afternoon, during a period when he was freelancing, he looked out from the r

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问题    【F1】An editor I know once told me that on a weekday afternoon, during a period when he was freelancing, he looked out from the rear window of his apartment and saw a burglary in progress. He called the police. When two detectives arrived to take a statement, one of them asked, "What were you doing staring out your back window in the middle of the day?" A freelancer myself, I told my friend, laughing, that I would be wounded by this remark.
   There is something embarrassing about working from home. You wonder what the UPS man thinks of you when he delivers advance copies of new books. So this guy just reads all day? 【F2】You worry that the prominent figure you are interviewing by phone can hear the refrigerator door or the neighbors’ kids upstairs.
   It’s an increasingly common white-collar plight. 【F3】Where once there were health plans, union cards, and decades punctuated by promotions, now there are laptop-bearing monkeys swinging from one branch to another in the so-called information economy.
   A relatively new institution, the shared writers’ space, fills a small niche. At these urban oddities, members get access to a quiet room or two full of desks—in other words, an office. But without a boss. And you pay them, instead of the other way around.
   【F4】Selectiveness varies, but at the one I belong to, in New York, no big-league credentials or book contract is required, only "serious intent and a strong drive to write," though references are checked. Members don’t get dedicated desks, but enrollment is capped to insure that a free one can almost always be found.
   【F5】It’s a different beast from the "co-working space," where, as I understand it, startups and entrepreneurs gather under the banner of brainstorming and use whiteboards. My writers’ space, by contrast, sternly enforces silence in the main room. White-noise machines, earplugs, and cough drops are provided, and a sign advises, "PLEASE WALK SLOWLY & LIGHTLY."
   At least nine cities now have shared workspaces for writers. But New York is the capital. Founded in 1978, the Writers Room was the first in the U.S. and "most likely" in the world, according to the executive director, Donna Brodie. Brodie boasted that she has shared with other workspace founders "the winning formula for success".
   At the space where I work, a woman arrives to clean at night. It feels like an occasion, a landmark reached. Sometimes, I help her take the trash to the street, and we part ways on the sidewalk to take the subway home. No one else cares, but I get to feel I’ve put in a good day.
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答案这是来自“共用工作空间”与众不同的“怪兽”，按我的理解，那是一个创业家和企业家们聚集在头脑风暴的旗帜下，共同使用白板的地方。
解析 ①本句是主从复合句。②主句表语后的介词短语from the“co-working space”作a different beast的后置定语，说明a different beast的来自哪里。③where引导的地点状语从句的主语由and连接两个并列名词startups和entrepreneurs构成，且句子同时并列两个谓语和宾语。介词短语of brainstorming作the banner的后置定语，说明the banner的内容。④as引导的定语从句在句中作插人语成分，意为“正如……”。
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