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因为向往大海 所以汇入百川 2015 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）真题 阅读部分及答案 Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (40points) Text 1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured people ’s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a palace of refuge. “Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home,” writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske. In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes,” It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.” Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health. What the study doesn ’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front 和平区卫津路 127 号 财富大厦A 座5 楼 1 因为向往大海 所以汇入百川 lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it`s mot surprising that women are more stressed at home. But it`s