The five-day work week has been the standard for quite some time but Finland may be looking into changing this as their new prime minister, Sanna Marin believes that Finnish people should be working four days instead. She is a supporter of cutting the work week as she says that this can allow people to spend more time with their families. 
Marin, who took office in December, expressed support for this before at her party’s conference in autumn 2019. She explained, “I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”
Marin, who is a mother-of-one, leads a group with four other parties which are all headed by women, three of which are under 35 years old. She supported this idea while she was still Transport Minister and said that this can also help to increase productivity and employee rapport.
She suggested that the standard working day should also be reduced to six hours instead of the standard eight. Currently, Finland is still practising the five-day work week and eight hours a day but this could be set to change. Although she has not announced this as government policy, her advocacy for this idea could see Finland being the latest country to experiment with reduced working hours.
Finland’s neighbour, Sweden, had previously tested a six-hour work day in 2015 and employees were shown to be happier and more productive. This kind of work week also help to reduce carbon emissions and save costs. Recently, Microsoft Japan also tested this and results showed that productivity increased by 40% while employees reported improved creativity levels as well.

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1.Marin suggested carrying out a reform on ________.

A work salary

B working hours

C workers’ training

D working conditions

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据文章第一段可知，芬兰新任女总理Marin欲推每周4天6小时工作制，即对工作时间进行改革，故选B。

2.Marin expected Finnish people not to ________.

A focus only on work

B develop the culture

C enjoy their hobbies

D spend more time with their families

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第二句及第三句She explained, “I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”可知，Marin相信人们值得花更多的时间用于他们的家人，所爱的人，爱好和生活的其它方面，由此看出她不希望人们只关注工作，故选A。

3.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A Finland is practising the four-day work week.

B Finland may shorten two working hours a day.

C Finland first reduced the working day in Europe.

D Finland has made laws to change the working day.

解析：选B。推理判断题。根据文章第四段第一句She suggested that the standard working day should also be reduced to six hours instead of the standard eight.可知，Marin建议标准工作日也应减少到6小时，而不是标准的8小时，即每天工作时间缩短2小时，故选B。

4.What’s the function of Paragraph 5?

A It promotes the process of changing the working day.

B It supplies the successful examples to the policy maker.

C It shows that social progress cannot go far without reform.

D It proves that there exists advantages of the new working policy.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据文章第五段可知，芬兰的邻国瑞典此前在2015年测试了一个6小时的工作日，员工被证明更快乐、更有生产力。这种工作周也有助于减少碳排放节省成本。微软日本公司测试结果显示，生产率提高了40%，而员工报告的创造力水平也有所提高，由此推断文章第五段有力地证明了新工作政策的优点，故选D。