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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.
What can be concluded from the last paragraph?
选项 A、Confining the employees in the office can promote their output.
B、Working at home is advantageous for boosting productivity.
C、Working in the office can reduce the company’s costs.
D、Staying at home makes people work less efficiently.
答案B
解析 根据选项[A]定位到第一句：But tying the Yahoos to their stalls in the company’s of-fices does not seem like the right way to go about boosting their output．其中confining the employ—ees in the office=tying the Yahoos to their stalls in the company’s offices；promote their output=boosting their output。关键是“does not seem like the right way”表否定，与该项表述相反，故该选项错误。根据选项[B]定位到第二句：Plenty of evidence suggests that letting employees work fromhome is good for productivity．其中is advantageous for boosting productivity=is good for productivi—ty。故该项正确。根据选项[C]定位到第四句：It can reduce companies’costs．其中it的指代内容很关键，it与第三句It allows them to use…中的it指代同一个内容，即上一句的letting employees work from home，即在家工作可以降低成本，而非该选项说的在办公室工作降低成本。故该项错误。根据选项[D]定位到第二、三句:．．．work from home is good for productivity．It allows them to use their time more efficiently…由此可见，在家工作效率更高而非更低。故选项[D]错误。综上所述，本题答案为选项[B]。
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