八成英國人午餐時間不吃午飯

安徽 郝洪亮

午休時間本來是吃午飯和休息的時間。然而，英國的一項調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，許多職場人士都在午休時間做其他事情，包括工作、處理私事、刷手機、看視頻等，如果肚子餓了就在上班時間隨便吃兩口，你也是這樣嗎？

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Just one in five workers use their lunch break to actually eat every day—with most using the time to catch up on personal errands and browse social media instead.

A study of 2,000 UK professionals found about 79% will tuck into their food as they work, so they can use their “l(fā)unch break”to do other things. The study, commissioned by Samsung KX, is designed to inspire people to reclaim their lunch break.

“We all need to make time for ourselves and our research has shown how few people really make it,” said Tanya Weller, director of Samsung Showcase KX. “It's easy to get caught up in a piece of work, but people aren't even giving themselves a moment to eat—let alone do anything else.”

According to the study, approximately 40% of respondents would like more time to pursue hobbies and interests during their lunch break, as they feel work has completely taken over. But 67%will frequently skip their midday meal altogether

The study, which was carried out by OnePoll, also found 46% of those polled find their jobs are simply too busy to take time out of their day to rejuvenate, whereas 15% get so sidetracked that they forget to take lunch. Another 13% claimed the culture of their workplace makes them feel as though they shouldn't have a break, with 1 in 10 even feeling guilty for having some time to themselves.

Participants said they would prefer to spend their downtime watching episodes of their favourite TV shows, playing computer games or even getting creative by painting, drawing or making music on a device.

The problem is that the average worker surveyed was allowed only up to 40 minutes to take a break from work,and many only take a third of this time—or less than 15 minutes to take a rest.

Reading Check

1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A. All the workers use their lunch time to eat every day.

B. All the workers work during the lunch time.

C. Just a fifth of workers use their lunch break to eat every day.

D. Most workers have a break.

2. What is the purpose of the study commissioned by Samsung KX?

A. To encourage people to work at lunch time.

B. To encourage people to skip their midday meal.

C. To encourage people to make full use of phones.

D. To encourage people to reuse their lunch breaks.

3. Which word has the closest meaning to the underlined word in Para. 5?

A. Eat. B. Refresh. C. Feel. D. Work.

4. How does the author develop the text?

A. By examples. B. By statistics. C. By time. D. By space.

Language Study

Difficult sentence

The problem is that the average worker surveyed was allowed only up to 40 minutes to take a break from work, and many only take a third of this time—or less than 15 minutes to take a rest. 問題在于，受訪的員工一般最多只有40分鐘的時間可以午休，許多人只用了其中三分之一的時間（或不到15分鐘）來休息。

【點石成金】此句是一個復(fù)合句。 is后接表語從句，to take a break作主語補足語，and 后面是并列句。