Imagine that work had taken over the world．It would be the centre around which the rest of life turned．Then all else would come to be subservient（服從于）to work．Then slowly，almost unconsciously，anything else-the games once played，the songs sung now，the loves fulfilled，the festivals celebrated-would come to resemble and finally become work．
And how，in this world of total work，would people think and sound and act？Everywhere they looked，they would see the pre- employed，employed，post-employed，underemployed and unemployed，and there would be no one uncounted in this census（人口普查）．Everywhere they would praise and love work wishing each other the very best for a productive day，opening their eyes to tasks and closing them only to sleep．Everywhere virtue of hard work would be championed as the means by which success is to be achieved，laziness being considered as the gravest sin（罪孽）．Everywhere among content-providers，knowledge-brokers，collaboration architects and heads of new divisions would be heard endless chatter about workflows，about plans and benchmarks（基準(zhǔn)）．
In this world，eating，resting，exercising，meditating and commuting（act of travelling back and forth between home and work）would all be beneficial to good health，which would，in turn，be put in the service of being more and more productive．No one would drink too much，and some would just take a little of psychedelics（迷幻劑）to enhance their work performance．
What is so disturbing about total work is not just that it causes needless human suffering but also that it removes the forms of playful contemplation（沉思）concerned with our asking，thinking and answering the most basic questions of existence．There is，to begin with，constant tension，an dominant sense of pressure associated with the thought that there's something that needs to be done，always something I'm supposed to be doing right now．Secondly，one feels guilt whenever he is not as productive as possible
The burden character of total work，then，is defined by ceaseless，restless，upsetting activity，anxiety about the future，a sense of life being overwhelming，thoughts_about missed opportunities，and guilt connected to the possibility of laziness．In short，total work necessarily causes dukkha，a Buddhist term referring to the unsatisfactory nature of a life filled with suffering．
In addition to causing dukkha，total work blocks access to higher levels of reality．For what is lost in the world of total work is art's disclosure of the beautiful，religion's glimpse of eternity（永恒），love's pure joy，and philosophy's sense of wonderment（a feeling of pleasant surprise or admiration）．All of these require silence，stillness，a wholehearted willingness to simply understand．
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| Imagination | If work occupied the world，human life would（1） centre/center centre/center around nothing else and there would also be an（2）unconscious unconscious change from anything to work． |
| Possible occurrences | ◇Human life would be a work-sleep pattern． ◇Efforts to make you（3） efficient/productive/succeed/successful efficient/productive/succeed/successful at work would be praised and laziness（4）condemned/criticized condemned/criticized ．◇People of different（5） professions/jobs/careers/occupations professions/jobs/careers/occupations would talk endlessly about work，like workflows，plans and so on． |
| Consequences | ◇Total work not only brings about suffering but also（6） prevents/stops/blocks/discourages/keeps prevents/stops/blocks/discourages/keeps people from having playful contemplation．◇Total work tends to put people under pressure，making them feel tense and（7） guilty guilty when they are not productive．◇Total work causes people to always feel（8） unhappy/displeased unhappy/displeased about their life．◇Total work leaves people little（9） chance/time chance/time to explore art，religion，love and philosophy，blocking people's access to higher levels of（10）reality reality ． |
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【答案】centre/center；unconscious；efficient/productive/succeed/successful；condemned/criticized；professions/jobs/careers/occupations；prevents/stops/blocks/discourages/keeps；guilty；unhappy/displeased；chance/time；reality
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