2019年12月英语六级听力真题-第2套-录音2

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听力试题、听力原文、答案：

一、听力试题：

 Recording 2

19. A) Not playing a role in a workplace revolution.

B) Not benefiting from free-market capitalism.

C) Not earning enough money to provide for the family.

D) Not spending enough time on family life and leisure. 

20. A) People would be working only fifteen hours a week now.

B) The balance of power in the workplace would change.

C) Technological advances would create many new jobs.

D) Most workers could afford to have a house of their own. 

21. A) Loss of workers’personal dignity.

B) Deprivation of workers’creativity.

C) Deterioration of workers’mental health.

D) Unequal distribution of working hours.

二、听力原文

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文字版本原文：

Recording 2.
Free market capitalism hasn't freed us. It has trapped us. It'simperative for us to embrace a workplace revolution. We're unlikely to spendour last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slavingaway at work. We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time wedidn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travellingor on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.
Unfortunately, the average full time employee in the world works 42hours a week. Over a 3rd of the time we're awake. Some of our all too precioustime is being stolen. Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaidovertime each year. So it's extremely welcome that some government coalitionshave started looking into potentially cutting the working week to four days.The champions of free market capitalism promised their way of life would bringus freedom, but it wasn't freedom at all. From the lack of secure, affordablehousing to growing job insecurity and rising personal debt, the individual istrapped.
Nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advancesand rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week. By nowthat target has been somewhat missed. Here is the most malignant threat to ourpersonal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace hasbeen shifted so dramatically from worker to boss. A huge portion of our livesinvolves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It's time in whichwe are directed by the needs and desires of others, and denied the right tomake our own choices.
That's bad for us. It's hardly surprising that over half a millionworkers suffer from work related mental health conditions. Each year. All that15.4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump ofnearly a quarter. Yes, they're all those who, far from being overworked,actually seek more hours. But a shorter working week would enable us toredistribute hours from the overworked to the under worked. We need to look atways of cutting the working week without slashing living standards.
After all worlds, workers have already suffered the worst deductionin wages since the early 18 hundreds. And cutting the working week would beconducive to the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend asthey see fit.
 Question 19. What do people often feel guilty about according tothe speaker?
Question 20. What did leading economists predict 90 years ago?
Question 21. What is the result of denying workers' right to maketheir own choices?

三、答案：

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录音二

资本主义的自由市场并没有解放我们，反而把我们困住了。

一场职场革命已经势不可挡。

在生命的最后一刻我们不可能懊悔自己没有花足够的时间在工作上埋头苦干，

相反我们会因自己没有花足够的时间和爱人一起关注孩子的成长而感到愧疚，

或者懊悔没有花足够的时间去体会旅行、文化和娱乐带给我们的快乐。

很不幸，全世界的全职员工平均每周要工作42小时，其中我们有三分之一的时间处于清醒状态。

我们有一部分宝贵的时间正在被偷走。

上班族每年无偿加班的时间已经达到了约20亿小时，

因此，一些政府联盟开始考虑将每周的工作时间缩短为4天，人们对此表示欢迎之至。

资本主义自由市场的拥护者们曾经承诺他们的生活方式将带给我们自由，结果却毫无自由而言。

从缺乏安全、尚可负担的住房，到不断上升的工作危机和个人债务，员工们已经陷入困境。

一些著名的经济学家90年前曾经预测，随着技术的进步和生产力的提高，员工至今每周的工作时长将缩短至15小时。

而这一目标显然并未达到。

这对我们的个人自由来说是最大的毒瘤，尤其当职场中权利的平衡已经从员工向老板大范围转移。

我们的很大一部分生活牺牲了个人的自由和自主。

在这个时代，我们被别人的需求和欲望牵着鼻子走，失去了选择的权利，

这对我们很不利。每年有超过50万的员工患有与工作相关的精神疾病，而这已经不足为奇。

去年，员工因压力而失去了1540万个工作日用来工作，较之前增加了近四分之一。

没错，那是些非但没有过度工作，反而去寻求更多工作时间的人。

不过，工作周时长的缩短能够使我们重新分配时间，从过度工作到少做工作。

我们要寻求的是在不降低生活水平的前提下缩短工作周时长的办法，

毕竟，全世界的员工已经遭受了自18世纪初以来最严重的克扣工资，

而缩短工作周时长将给个人带来好处，给数百万名员工更多的时间去做自己想做的事。

19. 根据叙述者所述内容，人们经常对什么感到愧疚？

20. 一些著名的经济学家90年前预测了什么？

21. 员工失去选择的权利会有什么后果？