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1. What can be inferred about the public reaction to Ms. Takaichi's social media post?

A. Most people were impressed by her dedication and hard work.

B. The post generated significant attention and divided opinions.

C. The public largely ignored the post due to the holiday weekend.

D. Many people called for her resignation immediately after the post.

无注释原文：

Japan Is Startled by Prime Minister's Grueling Sleep Schedule

From: The New York Times

Monday was Sea Day in Japan, a public holiday when many people escape the summer heat by swimming, surfing and lounging at the beach. But not Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Ms. Takaichi spent the holiday weekend rereading policy documents and dealing with a backlog of thousands of emails, according to a social media post on Tuesday. She wrote that she eked out a “full five hours of sleep for the first time in ages” — better than the “zero to three hours” she said she is accustomed to. And she said she spent her limited free time ironing undergarments, sewing fraying skirts and reinforcing loose jacket buttons.

With her comments, Ms. Takaichi seemed eager to present herself as a down-to-earth leader who doesn't stop working on behalf of Japan's citizens. Instead, her post, which has been viewed more than 31 million times, has set off a national debate about work-life balance and the hazards of sleep deprivation.

Toru Kunishige, an opposition lawmaker, warned that a prolonged lack of sleep “impairs judgment — much like a state of intoxication — and could pose a risk to national crisis management.”

Hiroyuki Konishi, another critic of Ms. Takaichi in Parliament, called for her resignation, saying, “The prime minister's actual job is to set policy directions and issue instructions, not to pore over every last detail of a document.”

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a populist conservative party, described Ms. Takaichi as hard-working but added that “resting is also a job.”

Ms. Takaichi's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Some commentators argued that Ms. Takaichi, the first woman to serve as prime minister in Japan, should be given more support in her position. While previous leaders often relied on their wives for help at home, Ms. Takaichi appeared to be tackling more domestic duties, according to Yoko Iwama, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

“Establishing a support system that allows a Japanese prime minister to focus entirely on their duties — without having to handle household chores personally — would contribute to women's advancement in society,” Ms. Iwama wrote in the Nikkei, a prominent business newspaper.

Ms. Takaichi has been in overdrive recently to get her legislative priorities passed before Parliament breaks for the summer on Saturday. She is also grappling with continuing economic troubles — the yen has hit a 39-year low — and a recent dip in popularity, though her approval ratings remain relatively high.

In her post, Ms. Takaichi wrote at length about her recent workload. She said that since early July, “from early morning until late at night,” she had been holed up on weekends at her residence “poring over thick stacks of documents.”

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Japan Is Startled by Prime Minister's Grueling Sleep Schedule

From: The New York Times

Monday was Sea Day in Japan, a public holiday when many people escape the summer heat by swimming, surfing and lounging at the beach. But not Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

周一是日本的“海之日”，这是一个公共假日，许多人趁此机会去游泳、冲浪、在海滩消夏。但首相高市早苗并没有休息。

lounge /laʊndʒ/ 1）作动词，表示“懒洋洋地坐着；懒散地躺着”，英文解释为“If you lounge somewhere, you sit or lie there in a relaxed or lazy way.”举个🌰：They ate and drank and lounged in the shade. 他们在阴凉处懒洋洋地坐着，又吃又喝。

2）作名词，表示“（酒店、机场、剧院等的）休息厅，等候室”，英文解释为“a room in a hotel, airport, theatre, etc. where people can relax or wait”如：an airport lounge 机场候机厅。

3）表示“客厅，起居室”，英文解释为“the room in a house or apartment that is used for relaxing and entertaining guests in”举个🌰：All the family were sitting in the lounge watching television. 全家人都坐在客厅里看电视。

lounge around (sth)表示“（在…）悠闲度日，消磨时间”，英文解释为“to spend your time in a relaxed way, sitting or lying somewhere and doing very little”举个🌰：We spent our days lounging around the pool. 我们整天在游泳池消磨时间。

Ms. Takaichi spent the holiday weekend rereading policy documents and dealing with a backlog of thousands of emails, according to a social media post on Tuesday. She wrote that she eked out a “full five hours of sleep for the first time in ages” — better than the “zero to three hours” she said she is accustomed to. And she said she spent her limited free time ironing undergarments, sewing fraying skirts and reinforcing loose jacket buttons.

她周二在社交媒体发文，称此次三连休期间都在重读政策文件，处理积压的数千封电子邮件。她写道，“久违地睡了五个小时”，比已经成为常态的“零至三小时睡眠”好多了。她还说，在难得的空闲时间里，她熨烫了内衣、缝补了裙摆和松动的外套纽扣。

backlog /ˈbæk.lɒɡ/ 表示“积压的工作”，英文解释为“a large number of things that you should have done before and must do now”举个🌰：I've got a huge backlog of work to do. 我有大量积压的工作要做。

eke /iːk/ sth out表示“精打细算地维持；尽量节约使用”，英文解释为“to use something slowly or carefully because you only have a small amount of it”举个🌰：There wasn't much food left, but we just managed to eke it out. 剩下的食物不多，但是我们省吃少餐设法挺了过来。

fray /freɪ/ 表示“（使）（布料或绳子）磨损，（使）磨散”，英文解释为“to become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, forming loose threads at the edge or end”举个🌰：Denim frays so easily. 劳动布很容易磨损。

With her comments, Ms. Takaichi seemed eager to present herself as a down-to-earth leader who doesn't stop working on behalf of Japan's citizens. Instead, her post, which has been viewed more than 31 million times, has set off a national debate about work-life balance and the hazards of sleep deprivation.

高市早苗似乎想通过这些言论把自己塑造成一个脚踏实地、为日本国民不停工作的领导人。然而，她那篇浏览量已超过3100万次的贴文却在日本引发了一场关于工作与生活平衡以及睡眠不足危害的全国性讨论。

down-to-earth /ˌdaʊn.tuːˈɜːθ/ 表示“实际的；务实的”，英文解释为“practical, reasonable, and friendly”举个🌰：She's a down-to-earth woman with no pretensions. 她是那种很务实、毫不虚荣的女人。

hazard /ˈhæz.əd/ 表示“危险物，危害物”，英文解释为“something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage”如：a health/fire hazard 健康/火灾隐患，举个🌰：The busy traffic entrance was a hazard to pedestrians. 那个繁忙的车辆入口处对行人来说很不安全。

deprivation /ˌdep.rɪˈveɪ.ʃən/ 表示“缺失，缺乏，匮乏；丧失；剥夺”，英文解释为“a situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life”举个🌰：They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture. 他们把不让睡觉作为一种折磨人的手段。

Toru Kunishige, an opposition lawmaker, warned that a prolonged lack of sleep “impairs judgment — much like a state of intoxication — and could pose a risk to national crisis management.”

反对党议员国重彻警告说，长期睡眠不足“会损害判断力——就像醉酒一样——可能给国家危机管理带来风险”。

prolonged /prəˈlɒŋd/ 表示“延续很久的，长期的”，英文解释为“continuing for a long time”举个🌰：Prolonged use of the drug is known to have harmful side-effects. 据了解，长期服用此药会产生对人体有害的副作用。

impair /ɪmˈpeər/ 表示“损害；削弱，损伤”，英文解释为“If something impairs something such as an ability or the way something works, it damages it or makes it worse.”举个🌰：The illness had impaired his ability to think and concentrate. 这种疾病损害了他的思维能力和注意力。

intoxication /ɪnˌtɒk.sɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ 表示“醉酒”，英文解释为“the condition of having lost some control of your actions or behaviour under the influence of a drug”

Hiroyuki Konishi, another critic of Ms. Takaichi in Parliament, called for her resignation, saying, “The prime minister's actual job is to set policy directions and issue instructions, not to pore over every last detail of a document.”

高市早苗在国会的另一位批评者、议员小西洋之呼吁她辞职，称“首相的真正职责是制定政策方向并下达指示，而不是逐字逐句地审阅文件的每一个细节”。

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a populist conservative party, described Ms. Takaichi as hard-working but added that “resting is also a job.”

民粹保守派政党领袖玉木雄一郎肯定了高市早苗的勤勉，但同时指出“休息也是工作”。

populist /ˈpɒp.jə.lɪst/ 表示“平民主义的；民粹主义的”，英文解释为“trying to be popular with ordinary people and to represent their ideas and opinions”如：a populist manifesto 民粹主义宣言。

Ms. Takaichi's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

对于置评请求，高市早苗的办公室未立即作出回应。

Some commentators argued that Ms. Takaichi, the first woman to serve as prime minister in Japan, should be given more support in her position. While previous leaders often relied on their wives for help at home, Ms. Takaichi appeared to be tackling more domestic duties, according to Yoko Iwama, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

一些评论人士认为，作为日本首位女首相，高市早苗理应在工作中获得更多支持。东京政策研究大学院大学的教授岩间阳子指出，以往的首相往往依赖妻子承担家庭事务，而高市似乎不得不亲自处理更多家务。

“Establishing a support system that allows a Japanese prime minister to focus entirely on their duties — without having to handle household chores personally — would contribute to women's advancement in society,” Ms. Iwama wrote in the Nikkei, a prominent business newspaper.

岩间在日本知名财经报纸《日本经济新闻》撰文称：“建立一套支持机制，使日本首相能够全身心投入公务而无需亲自处理家务，将有助于推动女性在社会中的发展。”

chore /tʃɔːr/ 表示“日常琐事；杂务；乏味的例行工作”，英文解释为“a job or piece of work that is often boring or unpleasant but needs to be done regularly”举个🌰：I'll go shopping when I've done my chores (= done the jobs in or around the house). 我把家务琐事干完后要去购物。

prominent /ˈprɒm.ɪ.nənt/ 1）表示“重要的；著名的；杰出的”，英文解释为“important or well known”举个🌰：He played a prominent part in the campaign. 他在这次运动中发挥了重要作用。

2）表示“突出的，显眼的”，英文解释为“Something that is in a prominent position can easily be seen.”举个🌰：New books are displayed in a prominent position on tables at the front of the store. 新书陈列在商店前面桌子上的一个显眼位置。

Ms. Takaichi has been in overdrive recently to get her legislative priorities passed before Parliament breaks for the summer on Saturday. She is also grappling with continuing economic troubles — the yen has hit a 39-year low — and a recent dip in popularity, though her approval ratings remain relatively high.

近来，高市一直处于超负荷工作状态，希望赶在国会于本周六进入夏季休会之前通过她优先推动的各项法案。与此同时，她还必须应对持续的经济困境——日元汇率已跌至39年来的新低——以及近期支持率下滑的问题，尽管其整体民望仍维持在相对较高的水平。

legislative /ˈledʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/ 表示“法律的；立法的”，英文解释为“relating to laws or the making of laws”举个🌰：The European Parliament will have greater legislative powers (= ability to make laws). 欧洲议会将获得更大的立法权。

1）表示“扭打；搏斗”，英文解释为“to take a firm hold of sb/sth and struggle with them”举个🌰：Passers-by grappled with the man after the attack. 袭击之后过路人便与这男人扭打起来。

2）表示“努力设法解决；尽力解决；设法对付；尽量克服”，英文解释为“to try hard to find a solution to a problem”举个🌰：The government has yet to grapple with the problem of air pollution. 政府还需尽力解决空气污染问题。

🎬电影《钢铁侠3》（Iron Man 3）中的台词提到：trying to grapple with something from some hard-crypt data files 希望能在一些加密的数据文件里找到线索...

In her post, Ms. Takaichi wrote at length about her recent workload. She said that since early July, “from early morning until late at night,” she had been holed up on weekends at her residence “poring over thick stacks of documents.”

在帖子中，高市早苗详细描述了近来繁重的工作状态。她说，进入7月以后的周末，“从清晨到深夜”，她都把自己关在首相官邸，“与堆积如山的文件搏斗”。

hole up (somewhere)表示“躲藏，隐藏”，英文解释为“to stay in a safe place, often as a way of avoiding something or hiding from someone”举个🌰：We'd better find some shelter and hole up until the storm passes. 我们最好找个藏身之所躲到风暴过去。

表示“仔细阅读，研读（通常指书或文件）”，英文解释为“to look at and study something, usually a book or document, carefully”举个🌰：She spends her evenings poring over textbooks. 她每天晚上都在研读课本。

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