It took courage to stand up at work. Now more and more people like to have a change and stand up when they are on something important. Standing up is popular. Medical researchers have found that people who stand at work tend to be much healthier than those who sit.
In the last few years, many office supply companies have begun to sell the adjustable- height desk. These so- called “ sit/ stand” models are equipped with an electric motor that lets them shift from 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 was more excited and new ideas kept coming out. This is because when you’re standing, you feel a bit unchained from your desk. If you got stuck on a word or sentence as you wrote, you found yourself shaking your arms, bouncing on your feet or stepping away from the desk for a bit------ things you couldn’t do in a chair. Often, standing up seemed to relax your mind enough for you to get over creative barriers.
There’s one other thing about standing for a long time;  you tended to get hungrier than you do when you sit on a chair. That felt like confirmation of the stand-up advocates’ belief that you burn more calories when you stand than when you sit. For this reason alone, I’m hoping that sit/ stand desks one day hit the mainstream, with mass- market furniture companies making many low- priced versions. We could all do with a bit more standing up.
小題1:We can learn that the adjustable- height desk is_______.
A．easy to findB．easy to test
C．relatively cheapD．smart in operation
小題2:According to para.3, standing up while working ______.
A．tends to make us much healthier
B．get us distracted from the work at hand
C．can make us relaxed and be creative
D．make us move about and unfocused
小題3:The underlined word “ unchained” in para.3 means “_______”
A．freeB．tiredC．uneasyD．Unbalanced

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題2:A
本文介紹了站著工作的好處。
小題1:推理判斷題 根據(jù)文章第二段對(duì)這種新產(chǎn)品的介紹可知，這個(gè)可調(diào)節(jié)的椅子的設(shè)計(jì)是很巧妙的。
小題2:推理判斷題 根據(jù)第三段的第一句話可知，站著工作可以使大腦更加的放松，能夠想出更多的點(diǎn)子來。
小題3:詞意猜測(cè)題 根據(jù)此句的后面一句話可知當(dāng)你的思想被困住的時(shí)候，伸伸胳膊活動(dòng)身體這樣的行為坐在椅子上是無法進(jìn)行的，因此可猜測(cè)站著工作可以讓你從椅子中解脫出來。
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Dear Teresa Silva,
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B．Students judge and grade their teachers.
C．Students begin to criticize and punish their teachers.
D．Students take action to praise their teachers.
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B．Because students feel great pressure from universities.
C．Because students have to satisfy their parents.
D．Because the business model has changed.
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B．The writer adopted some teaching methods so that he improved his student evaluations.
C．Similar to other teachers, the writer struggled to work as politicians.
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