题目内容：

Most companies around the world use two different types of office layouts: Landscape Office and Enclosed Office. A landscape office is an office which lacks privacy; however, this office layout is more beneficial than an enclosed office for employees to improve work efficiency (效率) and productivity.

Some people might desire a workplace without being disturbed by others. According to the survey collected from a company with the two kinds of office layouts, most of managers prefer a workplace where they can concentrate on their work and make a clear thinking. However, managers that possess their own enclosed offices might have the feeling of being distant from their clerks, which leads to high pressure. Meanwhile, employees tend to be nervous when they have conversations with their managers in an obviously high-level environment. In contrast, a landscape office makes it easier and more pleasant for employees to communicate with their managers or their colleagues; this would result in speeding up work efficiency and productivity.

Besides, greater interaction is beneficial for employees to build up friendship in a landscape office. This can be proved by the experiment of Brookes and Kaplan. They recorded the attitudes and opinions of 120 employees toward their enclosed office before they moved to the landscape office, and then after nine months they were tested again. The researchers discovered that those employees performed positive changes in group sociability. When people have better group sociability, they experience a better team work and efficient cooperation, which surely promotes work productivity.

Some opponents claim that a landscape office would lead to the decline of the value of work satisfaction and motivation from employees. However, the result from other researchers remained controversial; in their opinion there are several factors which affect job satisfaction and motivation. 600 Canadian federal government department workers who were housed at a modem landscape office and were surveyed gave both negative and positive feedback. They admitted that they felt the sense of belonging to a team or a working community, which mainly contributes to job satisfaction. Motivation is also increased by a sense of responsibility for and loyalty to a team. Admittedly, there are some advantages that only enclosed offices possess. However, a landscape office can combine the features of the traditional enclosed office, for example, designing the independent meeting room to decrease noise from discussion. Although the benefits of a landscape office outweigh those of an enclosed office, which layout is better should be decided by the characteristics of the people and the type of work they do.

1.What is mainly talked about in the passages?

A. Colleague cooperation and its motivation.

B. Group sociability and its productivity.

C. Working environment and its effect.

D. Office privacy and its atmosphere.

2.What has the significant effect on productivity according to Paragraph 2?

A. Job satisfaction.

B. Relaxed atmosphere.

C. Group sociability.

D. Undisturbed workplace.

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Enclosed office leads to individual creativity.

B. Landscape office contributes to effective conversations.

C. Different working styles in enclosed office are encouraged.

D. Frequent communication in landscape office results in high pressure.

4.What is the authors attitude towards office layouts?

A. Objective    B. Casual

C. Optimistic    D. Sceptical