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阅读题源 速读测试： “不在办公室”留言指南 作为公事繁忙的上班族，休假或外出会议等事宜会不可避免地影响到回复重要 的工作邮件，因此人们往往会选择留下out-of-office信息——其目的就在于 告知发邮件的对方静待回复或是另请高明，避免耽误紧急事项。然而在科技飞 速发展的今天，传统的out-of-office邮件似乎略显过时，或许我们需要更聪 明的方式来管理那些离开办公室的时间？ 测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识： merit 值得 hurdle 障碍 self-referential 自指的 affliction 苦恼 ruse 策略 plausibility 可信度 The out of date out-of-office message （790 words） By Lisa Pollack When Professor Randy Pausch took a month off work for his honeymoon, his boss at Carnegie Mellon University insisted that he be reachable. So he recorded amessage forwhen people tried to call. On ithe explained that he’d waited until 39 to get married. Then he gave the names of his new in-laws and the town they lived in, so a caller could get their number fromdirectoryassistance.Then, lastly: “Ifyoucanconvincemy in-laws thatyouremergencymerits interruptingtheironlydaughter’shoneymoon, they have our number.” I was thinking about this clever out-of-office notification as I tried to construct my own in email form. Prof Pausch’s honeymoon message is a storyfromamore technologically innocentage — itwas about 15years ago, which is at least 100 in internet years. Back then, aside from the hurdlesput inplacebydeterminedhoneymooners,therewerealsoplausible reasons to be out of touch. Now, technology is so good that it’s ruined 资料来源：育明考研考博官网 our favourite excuses for not being reachable. Writing that one has “limited” or “intermittent” a ess to email isusually no more than a declaration that one intends to be choosy about dealing with it. Butthisisonlyhalfthestory.Theotheristhattechnology,particularly when it comes to the out-of-office message, hasn’t kept up. There’s a robot that walks like a dog and cars drive thems