2024届高考英语外刊精读精练：为何“随处工作”并不现实

2024届高考备考外刊精读精炼专题规划 为何“随处工作”并不现实 Why working from anywhere isn't realistic 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：社会交往 注：文章中斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识了解即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。 【1】 For most white-collar（ adj. 白领阶层的）workers，it used to be very simple. Home was the place you left in order to go to work. The office was almost certainly the place you were heading to. Co-working spaces were for entrepreneurial（ adj. 企业家的；创业的；与企业有关的）people in T-shirts who wanted to hang out with other entrepreneurial people in T-shirts.You could stay at a hotel on a work trip but it was not a place to get actual work done, which is why a hotel’s “business centre” defined（ v. 给……下定义，解释；阐明，使清楚） all of business as using a printer. 【2】 The pandemic（ n. <正式>大流行病） has thrown these neat categories up into the air. Most obviously, home is now also a place of work. According to a recent Gallup（盖洛普咨询公司）survey, three-quarters of American workers whose jobs can be performed remotely expect to spend time doing just that in the future. And offices are increasingly where you go to put the company into company—through collaborative work as well as through social activities. 【3】 But the boldest（ adj. 明显的，轮廓突出的；大胆自信的，敢于冒险的）version of remote working extends well beyond these two locations. “Working from anywhere” envisages（ vt. 设想；想象）a completely untethered（ adj. 不受限的；无约束的） existence, in which people can do their jobs in Alaska or Zanzibar. Plenty of destinations are keen to blur（ v. 使）难以区分）the lines between business and leisure (“bleisure”, the world's ugliest chunk（ n. 话语组成部分） of word-vomit（吐字，往往是不吐不快，张口就来）). Hotels are revamping（ v. 修改，翻新，改进） some of their rooms as offices and rolling out work-from-hotel offers. Entire countries are reinventing themselves as places to mix play and work (“plork”?): the Bahamas, Costa Rica and Malta are among those that offer visas for digital nomads（ n. 流浪者，不断更换工作的人）. 【4】 The work-from-anywhere world edged a little closer, when Brian Chesky, Airbnb's（爱彼迎，一家联系旅游人士和家有空房出租的房主的服务型网站）boss, outlined new polic