填空题

As a Pennsylvania-based editor for a California publishing company, Birch is one of the country’s growing number of telecommuters. For her, "going into work" is walking over from her bedroom into her home office, where she sometimes checks e-mail in her pajamas. Telecommuting is changing our culture—and so are the (47) we’re choosing to work in, from near or far. The Department of Labor calls computer-systems design and related services "among the (48) growing industries in the economy," and says sectors software engineering and data systems are the most likely to (49) over the next five years—jobs you can do from anywhere, no-suit-required.
But what happens when it’s time to head back into the office Or to a (50) meeting With an estimated 2 million American businesses (51) to allow workers to telecommute, possibly in their pajamas T-shirts, will business-casual dress codes devolve into a whatever-goes attitude
Sartorial strictures (着装要求) have been loosening for decades. The start-up ethos of the ’90s dotcom boom meant jeans and T-shirts took the place of cuff links and pocket squares. Suits, and being a suit, were out of style. And as tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft helped (52) a nation of mobile workers, each company helped strengthen the (53) that looking smart isn’t as material as being smart. Google cofounder Sergey Brin, for example, still (54) his company’s dress code as that of a "disheveled (衣冠不整的) student", and Google’s (55) attitude toward dress and hours as well as its friendliness toward working (56) is part of its allure (诱惑力) for employees.
A. board
B. cites
C. client
D. create
E. describes
F. equipped
G. evolved
H) fields
I) fastest
J) incredibly
K) notion
L) relaxed
M) remotely
N) standard
O) surge

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E