2014届高考英语阅读理解基础测试题 (23).doc

When Mike Jones signed on to be marketing director at an e-book publisher, one of the advertised benefits was the chance to work at home full time. Two years later, he loves the job, but hated the location. "I was totally cut off from the world," Mr. Jones says. "I was only working four or five hours a day because I'd keep looking for things to do just soI could get out of the apartment." After months of searching for alternatives, Jones found Office Nomad, a shared workplace in Seattle that sells itself as "individuality without isolation." The studio is labeled with a modern philosophy( 理念) called "coworking." The concept tries bine the features pany office with the flexibility of working from home. There are desks to rent, conference rooms to reserve, and still plenty of room to rest. Coworking meets the needs of ing from the e-mail times. These laptop users represent a growing group of the US workforce, and many coworkers say others are bound to find similar arrangements. "I couldn't figure out why I had to choose between freedom munity," says Brad Neuberg, puter programmer who created the term coworking. "I wanted both. So I started imagining what that would look like." In 2005, Mr. Neuberg found an empty hall in San Francisco and used it as the first coworking site. Every morning, Mr. Neuberg set up tables and waited for coworkers. "For the first two months, no one showed