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Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Just as the summer draws to a close, I will finally get away on holiday: I have rented a cottage deep in the mountains at the end of the month. What attracted me most was not so much its beautiful countryside, but the word of caution offered by previous visitors. “Please note，” they said, “there is no WiFi here or mobile phone coverage, unless you climb to the top of the nearest mountain.” Thats wonderful! A week without feeling the need to check my email for the handful of important messages. While you can always choose not to check your email while on holiday, how many of us have the willpower to ignore the arrival of yet another message, or how many of us can risk losing trust from your boss? There is good news for the employees. The managers of the German car giant Daimler have offered their 100,000 employees an app that automatically deletes all emails sent to their work accounts while they are on holiday. Alternatively, they can be forwarded to a colleague. “Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-life emails，” said Wilfried Porth, Daimlers board member for human resources. “With ‘Mail on Holiday’， they start back after the holidays with a clean desk. There is no traffic jam in their mailbox. That is an emotional relief.” The idea of a regular digital detox(禁令) is catching on. The Germans believe that it restores a more sensible work-life balance and helps prevent employee “burn-out”. Volkswagens phone servers have stopped sending emails to employees BlackBerrys during the evenings. Bosses at Deutsche Telekom agreed to stop sending emails to staff during the evenings, weekends and holidays. Germanys labour ministry, meanwhile, has also instructed its managers to stop emailing or calling staff out-of-hours except in an emergency. So, good for Daimler. It recognizes that too many of us have been unable to look up from our phones or iPads. I cant wait to get up to that cottage without any internet conne