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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers ID: #4662 Medium Office
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Hi, I'd like to thank you for inviting me here today. As you may know, my organization is tasked with identifying and attempting to overcome some of the biggest complaints employees have when working in an office environment. At the top of everyone's list of complaints, you might not be surprised to learn, is temperature. Yes, it's the age-old struggle of the room where you work being either too hot or too cold; the air-conditioning is too high or the heating is too low. This is a difficult problem to overcome because everyone has his or her own comfort zone. What's too warm for one person, is just right for another. In offices where the systems controlling ambient temperature are functioning normally and can be easily controlled, we have found that seating people in groups within the office space according to their temperature preference is one effective way of solving this problem. Where space restrictions limit this kind of flexibility, we recommend alternating days of cool and warm temperatures. For example, Mondays might be a cool day, and those who tend to feel cold should prepare for it by wearing warmer clothes.

Which of the following are solutions that the speaker suggests to address complaints about office temperature?

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Option 4: "The office temperature should be varied on different days."

Explanation: The text explicitly states that alternating days of cool and warm temperatures is a recommended solution when space restrictions limit flexibility. This directly addresses the complaints about temperature.

Option 1: "The company should repair its heating or air-conditioning systems."

Explanation: This option suggests a repair of the heating or air-conditioning systems, which is not mentioned in the text. The speaker focuses on solutions that involve managing temperature preferences rather than fixing the systems themselves.

Option 2: "Staff should sit together to keep warm."

Explanation: While the text discusses seating arrangements based on temperature preferences, it does not specifically state that staff should sit together to keep warm. Instead, it mentions seating people in groups according to their temperature preference, which is broader.

Option 3: "Women and men should work separately."

Explanation: This option is not supported by the text. The speaker does not mention gender-based seating arrangements; the focus is on individual temperature preferences, not on separating employees by gender.

Option 5: "Employees should work in different parts of the room according to inclination."

Explanation: The speaker mentions seating people in groups according to their temperature preference, which implies that employees should work in different areas based on their comfort levels. This aligns with the idea of accommodating individual inclinations regarding temperature.

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