It took courage to stand up at work. Now more and more people like to have a cha

It took courage to stand up at work. Nowmore and more people like to have a change and stand up when they are onsomething important. Standing up is popular. Medical researchers have foundthat people who stand at work tend to be much healthier than those who sit.

In the last few years, many office supplycompanies have begun to sell the adjustable- height desk. These so- called “sit/ stand” models are equipped with an electric motor that lets them shiftfrom chair height to person height at the push of a button. Unfortunately,they’re regarded as specially furniture. Sit/ stand desks tend to be expensive,hard to find and not easy to test it in person.

When you worked standing up, your mind wasmore excited and new ideas kept coming out. This is because when you’restanding, you feel a bit unchained from your desk. If you got stuck on aword or sentence as you wrote, you found yourself shaking your arms, bouncingon your feet or stepping away from the desk for a bit------ things you couldn’tdo in a chair. Often, standing up seemed to relax your mind enough for you toget over creative barriers.

There’s one other thing about standing fora long time;  you tended to get hungrier than you do when you sit on achair. That felt like confirmation of the stand-up advocates’ belief that youburn more calories when you stand than when you sit. For this reason alone, I’mhoping that sit/ stand desks one day hit the mainstream, with mass- market furniturecompanies making many low- priced versions. We could all do with a bit morestanding up.

1.We can learn that the adjustable- heightdesk is_______.

2.According to para.3, standing up whileworking ______.

3.The underlined word “ unchained” inpara.3 means “_______”

试题答案

【答案】

1.D

2.C

3.A

【解析】本文介绍了站着工作的好处。

1.推理判断题根据文章第二段对这种新产品的介绍可知，这个可调节的椅子的设计是很巧妙的。

2.推理判断题根据第三段的第一句话可知，站着工作可以使大脑更加的放松，能够想出更多的点子来。

3.词意猜测题根据此句的后面一句话可知当你的思想被困住的时候，伸伸胳膊活动身体这样的行为坐在椅子上是无法进行的，因此可猜测站着工作可以让你从椅子中解脱出来。