托福是由美国教育测验服务社举办的英语能力考试，全名为“检定非英语为母语者的英语能力考试”，中文由TOEFL而音译为“托福”。一起来看看托福阅读素材归纳，仅供大家参考！谢谢！
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The CEO of Denver-based internet start-up FullContact API said in a market that is competitive for top talent, he wants to keep his employees happy and refreshed.
美国丹佛的网络初创公司FullContact API的总裁巴特-洛朗表示，在各家争相雇佣顶级人才的竞争市场中，他想让自己的员工心情愉快，充满干劲。
The flip-flop wearing founder offers his employees $7,500 for what he calls “paid, paid vacation,” however there are rules.
这位穿着夹趾凉拖的公司创始人向他的每位员工提供7500美元，用于“付费带薪休假”，但需遵守相关规定。
“One, you actually have to take a vacation to get the money,” Lorang said. “Two, you have to disconnect from work, so that means no calls, no emails, no tweets, no work of any kind.”
洛朗说：“首先，你必须去度假才能拿到这笔钱。其次，你必须切断与工作的联系，这意味着不接电话，不回电邮，不发推特，不做任何形式的工作。”
Even Lorang admitted he has trouble following his rules.
洛朗承认他自己遵守这些规定也有困难。
“I suck at it,” he said.
他说：“我也没能遵守。”
A picture of the CEO and his fiancee Sarah at Egypt’s great pyramids captured Lorang checking his email.
在洛朗和未婚妻萨拉在埃及金字塔拍摄的一张照片上，他正在查看电邮。
Not surprisingly, employees said they loved having the company pick up the tabfor their vacations.
公司为员工支付度假费用，员工们当然感到很开心。
“It’s a real break for your brain,” said Robbie Jack, a FullContact API employee. “You come back refreshed and reinvigorated and more excited about the stuff you were working on when you left.”
该公司员工罗比-杰克说：“这才能真正让大脑放松。你回来工作时会精神抖擞，充满活力，对之前的工作更加振奋。”
If the idea of having a boss pick up the tab for a dream vacation is tantalizing, good news: Lorang is hiring.
如果老板掏钱让员工度假的主意非常诱人的话，那么还有个好消息：洛朗在招聘。
“We’re probably going to hire about 12 folks in the next six months,” he said.
他说：“在未来半年内，我们大概要招聘12名员工。”
Vocabulary: pick up the tab: 承担费用
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A great way to get to know someone better is to say something that makes them laugh.
想要更好地了解别人，一个好办法就是说些能让他们发笑的事。
Sharing a few good giggles and chuckles makes people more willing to tell others something personal about themselves, without even necessarily being aware that they are doing so, suggests new research.
新研究显示，分享一些好笑的事会让人更乐意告诉别人自己的私事，甚至当他们这样做的时候，也根本不会意识到这一点。
Alan Gray of University College London discovered the tidbit in a new study recently published in the journal Human Nature.
英国伦敦大学学院(University College London)的艾伦格雷(Alan Gray)在研究中发现了这一有趣的现象。最近，他的这项研究成果发表在了《人类天性》(Human Nature)杂志上。
According to Gray, the act of verbally opening up to someone is a crucial building block that helps to form new relationships and intensify social bonds.
格雷认为，用言语向他人敞开心扉的行为是帮助人们建立新关系，增强人与人之间社会联系的重要基本要素。
Such self-disclosure can be of a highly sensitive nature — like sharing one’s religious convictions or personal fears — or a superficial tidbit such as one’s favorite type of food.
自我表露的过程具有高度敏感性——好比分享宗教信仰或者害怕之物——或者只是一个流于表面的趣闻，比如最爱的食物类型。
To investigate the role and influence of laughter in this disclosure process, Gray and his colleagues gathered 112 students from Oxford University in England, into groups of four.
为了调查笑声在自我表露过程中扮演的角色和产生的.影响，格雷和他的同事从英国牛津大学(Oxford University)召集了112个学生，并把他们分为四组。
The students did not know one another. The groups watched a 10-minute video together, without chatting to one another.
学生们彼此都不认识。每组会坐在一起看一个10分钟的视频，期间并无交谈。
The videos differed in the amount of laughter they invoked, and the amount of positive feelings or emotions they elicited.
视频的区别在于，引人发笑的频率和传达积极情绪或情感的效力各有不同。
One featured a stand-up comedy routine by Michael McIntyre, another a straightforward golf instruction video, and the third a pleasant nature excerpt from the “Jungles” episode of the BBC’s Planet Earth series.
一个视频是迈克尔麦金太尔(Michael McIntyre)的单人喜剧秀，一个是简短的高尔夫教学片，第三个是从《BBC行星地球系列》(BBC’s Planet Earth series)“丛林”(Jungles)一集里节选的一个令人愉悦的自然片段。