英语听力精选进阶版 7166

Background: 在办公室如何着装才是得体的？最新一项调查对来自24个国家，1.2万人进行了采访，可是结果显示大家对这个问题都各执己见。

If you're a T-shirts and jeans kind of a person, then here's some statistics worth knowing.

According to the Reuters poll, you should head to Hungary for a job, given that a mere 1 twelve percent of people there dress smartly for work.

India on the other hand might be a trickier 2 proposition, with nearly six in ten Indians wearing formal clothes in the office.

As a rule it seems Europeans are scruffier 3, whilst workers in South Korea, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia all tend to make more effort.

If you want to don a pair of shorts in the office, then nearly half of all Australians asked think that's fine.

However a mere tenth of Brazilians would agree.

Russians too would disapprove 4, although with the heatwave Moscow is experiencing, the temptation must be great.

And what happens if you want climb the corporate 5 ladder?

Around two thirds of people believe senior managers should be smarter than their minions 6.

In Sweden you're less likely to be judged on what you wear on your way to the top.

But in France you might find the corridors of power closed to you if you intend to slouch down them wearing whatever you could find that morning.

Glossary 7 词汇表

kind of a person 的一种人 

head to 去 

a mere 仅仅 

dress smartly 穿着讲究 

trickier proposition 更为棘手的情况 

formal 正式 

scruffier （和其他国家相比）衣着不整齐 

make more effort 更加注意 

to don 穿上 

heatwave 热浪 

temptation 诱惑 

corporate ladder 公司晋升制度 

minions 下属 

on your way to the top 晋升之路 

the corridors of power 权利走廊（暗中左右和制定重大政策的政府或管理机构的上层权力中心） slouch down 懒散

Questions and Answers

Do most people in Hungary dress smartly for work? 

No. In this survey it found that only 12 percent of people in Hungary dress smartly for work.

True or false? Nearly 50 percent of Australians believe it is fine to wear shorts in the office. 

True nearly half of Australians surveyed thought that wearing shorts in the office was fine.

In which country are you less likely to be judged as you climb the corporate ladder? 

Sweden is the country where you are less likely to be judged on what you wear as you climb your way to the top.

How many people believe that senior managers should dress smarter than those who work beneath them? 

Two thirds of people in this survey believe that senior managers should dress smarter than people who work below them.