2023年6月英语四级听力真题 卷一 短文3

Passage 3

短文3

At the Dreamery, a business in Manhattan, naps are for sale. A 45-minute session in a darkened enclosure with peace and quiet costs $25.

在曼哈顿的一家名为“梦之屋”的商店里，午睡是出售的。在一个黑暗的封闭环境中享受一次45分钟的治疗，费用为25美元。

To be clear, this institution is no hotel. This is a nap joint. It sells the idea of the nap as much as the nap itself.

要清楚的是，这个机构不是酒店。这是个打盹的地方。它在推销午睡的理念的同时，也在推销午睡本身。

Is a nap worth $25? The answer is obviously yes. Here, at this point in the argument, it's traditional for me to bring up all the studies that show the benefits of napping.

睡个午觉值25美元吗？答案显然是肯定的。说到这里，按照惯例，我会把所有证明午睡好处的研究都拿出来。

But do you really need experts to tell you that? Just look at the world around you at 2:30 in the afternoon.

但你真的需要专家来告诉你这些吗？只要在下午两点半的时候看看周围的世界。

I've been working from home for more than 10 years now.And the quality and quantity of work I can do emerges directly from my ability to concentrate.

我已经居家办公超过10年了。我所能完成的工作的质量和数量直接来自于我的专注力。

I don't understand how people have creative careers without napping.

我不明白人们不打盹怎么会有创造性的职业生涯。

Every day at about 1 p.m., everyone faces the same choice: sleep until 2 p.m.and then work until 5, or daydream and drift around social media and attend pointless meetings until 7 p.m.

每天下午1点左右，每个人都会面临同样的选择：睡到下午2点，然后工作到5点；或者做白日梦，在社交媒体上游荡，参加毫无意义的会议，直到晚上7点

The friends I have who still work in offices inform me their bosses insist that they take the second option, and that napping is associated with laziness.

我那些仍在办公室工作的朋友告诉我，他们的老板坚持让他们选择第二种方式，认为打盹与懒惰有关。

I genuinely find it odd. For if you nap properly, it's like waking up from a full night's sleep and you can double your day's worth of concentration.

我真的觉得这很奇怪，我真的觉得很奇怪。因为如果你适当地小睡，就像从一个完整的睡眠中醒来，你可以让你一天的注意力加倍

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

问题22到25是基于你刚才听到的短文。

22. What do we learn about the Dreamery, a business in Manhattan?

22. 我们从曼哈顿的一家名为“梦想家”的公司了解到了什么？

23.Why does the speaker ask us to look at the world around us at 2:30 in the afternoon?

23.为什么演讲者让我们在下午两点半看看周围的世界？

24.What do we learn about the quantity and quality of the speaker's work?

24.关于演讲者工作的数量和质量，我们能了解到什么信息？...

25. What does the speaker say he finds odd?

25. 说话者说他发现了什么奇怪的东西？

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