Task 1 Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice. Working at home in your nightclothes while saving hundreds of dollars may sound too good to be true, but it isn't. More and more employees are telecommuting, doing their job at home or another remote site. 'It's a trend that's here now and you're going to see a lot more telecommuting because people don't have to put up with commuting (来回上下班). They want more work / life balance, they want less stress in their lives and companies want to drive costs after their bottom lines,' says John Edwards, President of the International Telework Association and Council. However, Edwards says, 'The biggest problem at the moment is dealing with middle management who is uncomfortable with management style. focusing on results. They are used to the line of sight management style. But they have to change to more results-oriented management style. which can often be slightly opposite, so they feel uncomfortable with that.' Edwards says telecommuting kills distance—and a lot of face to face meetings are replaced by tele-conferences. 'Distance does not exist anymore. It's the death of distance, if you like. So now it's possible to have more invisible teams so that the necessity to have the old bricks and walls existing is beginning to disappear.' According to the writer, telecommuting refers to the way ______.