英语高级口译岗位资格证书实考试卷解析（IV）

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Jet lag affects most travelers, how can we measure the performance of, say, an executive who travels to another country to make a business deal？ This is where the idea of looking at baseball comes in, so by looking at whether baseball teams win or lose games, researchers believe that we can see how jet lag affects performance in sports, business, and other jobs.
     In the study, doctors looked at baseball records from 2001 to 2004. They studied the performance of 19 teams from the Eastern and Pacific time zones, looking at the results of the two games immediately after a team traveled from one coast to the other. The study shows that changing time zones may hurt the performance of West Coast baseball teams traveling east for a game, but not East Coast teams traveling west. The reason, the researchers think, is that people traveling east suffer more from the symptoms of jet lag.
     An example of this effect can be seen in the best-of-seven league championship series played in 2003 between the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves. The games are played in the home cities of each time, so in 2003 the Atlanta Braves and the San Francisco Giants played the first two games in Atlanta, the next three games in San Francisco, and the last two games in Atlanta. In this contest, Atlanta won four of the seven games and was the winner of the series. Researchers believe that the San Francisco Giants lost because they played more games away from and therefore had more jet lag. ……