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  3. In Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel, "Gulliver’s Travels" , the Yahoos are a degraded band of hu-manoids kept tied in stalls by their

In Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel, "Gulliver’s Travels" , the Yahoos are a degraded band of hu-manoids kept tied in stalls by their

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问题     In Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel, "Gulliver’s Travels" , the Yahoos are a degraded band of hu-manoids kept tied in stalls by their captors. It is therefore appropriate that a recent, widely leaked memo from Yahoo’s human-resources manager, Jackie Reses, began with the toe-curling salutation with which managers at the company normally address underlings; "Yahoos".
    " We can all feel the energy and buzz in our offices," the memo went on. Presumably, though, while some Yahoos are feeling it, others are hanging around at home in their pajamas, for the memo went onto say that from June all Yahoos will be required to turn up in the office unless they have a good excuse. "The best is yet to come," the memo ended—a claim which may sound implausible to the employees of a company whose market capitalisation has fallen from $ 125 billion in 2000 to $ 25 billion now.
    It is understandable that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s recently appointed chief executive, should want to extract some more value from the employees she leads. Google’s workers each generate $ 931,657 revenue, 160% more than the $ 353, 657 produced by each of Yahoo’s employees.
    And it is also reasonable for a company to want to discourage its employees from behaving like freelances. After all, firms exist largely because people are more productive together than apart.
    But tying the Yahoos to their stalls in the company’s offices does not seem like the right way to go about boosting their output. Plenty of evidence suggests that letting employees work from home is good for productivity. It allows them to use their time more efficiently and to spend more time with their families and less fuming in traffic jams or squashed on trains. It can reduce companies’ costs. Cisco claimed in 2009 that it was saving $ 277m a year by allowing its people to teleeommute. A study by researchers at Stanford and Beijing Universities of a large Chinese travel company compared the performance of employees allowed to work from home with those who were stuck in the office: among the home-workers, job satisfaction rose, staff turnover fell by half and productivity went up by 13%. Hardly surprising, since a lot of people don’t seem to work while they are at work; last year J. C. Penney, an American retailer, discovered that a third of its headquarters’ bandwidth was taken up by employees watching YouTube videos.
The novel "Gulliver’s Travels" is mentioned to______.
选项 A、introduce the topic of "Yahoos"
B、show that Yahoos are a degraded group
C、praise the great works of Jonathan Swift
D、describe Yahoo’s human-resource manager
答案A
解析 本题根据题干中的“Gulliver’s Travels”很容易定位到首段。文章首句提到小说中描述的Yahoos这个群体，第二句立刻转到雅虎公司，可见作者提及《格列佛游记》只是为了引出雅虎这个话题。因此选项[A]正确。
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