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Many of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous
Many of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous
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2022-04-20
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问题
Many of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it seems. Finally, there could be proof to back this up. Researchers at the University of Surrey, in Britain, and Linnaeus University, in Sweden, have published a new study highlighting what they call "a darker side of hypermobility. " The researchers warn, "whilst aspects of glamorisation in regard to mobility are omnipresent in our lives, there exists a worrying silence with regard to its darker side.
The study, which synthesises existing research on the effects of frequent travel, finds three types of consequence: physiological, psychological and emotional, and social. The physiological ones are the most obvious. Jet lag is the suffering travellers know best, although they may not anticipate some of its more terrible, if rarer, potential effects, like speeding ageing or increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Then there’s the danger of exposure to germs and radiation -people who fly more than 85,000 miles a year exceed the regulatory limit for exposure to radiation. And finally, of course, business travellers tend to get less exercise and eat less healthily than people who stay in place.
The psychological and emotional toll of business travel is more abstract, but just as real. Frequent flyers experience "travel disorientation" from changing places and time zones so often. They also suffer mounting stress, given that "time spent travelling will rarely be offset through a reduced workload, and that there may be anxieties associated with work continuing to accumulate whilst away. " Due to the absence from family and friends, "hypermobility is frequently an isolating and lonely experience," the authors write. The accumulated impact can be substantial.
Finally, there are the social effects. Marriages suffer from the time apart, as does children’s behaviour. What is more, relationships tend to become more unequal, as the partner who stays at home is forced to take on more domestic duties. There’s a gender disparity here, since most business travellers are men. Friendships also fray, as business travellers often " sacrifice local collective activities and instead prioritise their immediate families when returning from trips. "
Of course, these impacts are comforted by the fact that they fall disproportionately on a segment of the population that is already doing rather well. The "mobile elite" tend to have higher incomes and access to better health care than the population at large.
These may be problems of the very few people, though, they’re real enough regardless. By all means feel jealous of acquaintances’ Instagram photos of exotic meals and faraway attractions. But harbour a small amount of concern as well.
The most likely purpose that the author writes the text is________.
选项
A、to find ways to relieve the impacts of frequent travel
B、to advise people to reduce business travel
C、to advise people to pay more concern to business travellers
D、to show how dangerous business travel may be
答案
C
解析
本题是主旨题。通读文章,首段作者指出,人们往往只看到商务旅行的光鲜面却忽视商务旅行的黑暗面;第二至四段具体介绍了商务旅行的黑暗面及其可能带来的负面影响;最后两段指出,尽管商务旅行影响的只是小部分杰出人士,但建议大家在妒忌的同时也要多给他们一些关心。综合可知,作者写作本文的目的最有可能是想“建议人们要认识到商务旅行的负面影响,并给予商务旅行者更多的关心”。故答案选C。A项“找到方法来减轻商务旅行带来的影响”;B项“建议人们减少商务旅行”;D项“说明商务旅行可能有多危险”在文中均未提及,故排除。
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