Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just. heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is the third time, you should check what you have written.
Part III Section C
British workers are suffering email stress because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, __________ and unproductive as they __________to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers __________ monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33percent said they felt stressed by the __________ of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt driven when they checked messages because of the pressure to __________ Just 38 percent of workers were __________enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
