Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. She started spinning off examples. "If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion. There were goals, there were strategies, there were objectives, but we didn't talk about energy; we didn't talk about passion."According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become _______.[A] more emotional[B] more objective[C] less energetic[D] less strategic

我们来一步一步分析这道题目。

题目引用了哈佛商学院教授南希·科恩（Nancy Koehn）的一段话，她谈到传统办公室中的语言变化。关键句子是：

> "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago"

这句话的意思是：“美国企业界的通用语言比起20年前，变得更加情绪化，也更加偏向右脑思维了。”

这里的关键词是：

• “much more emotional” —— 更加情绪化
• “much more right-brained” —— 更加右脑型（右脑通常与创造力、情感、直觉相关，与左脑的逻辑、分析相对）

接下来，她举例说明：回到1990年，我们很少听到“journey（旅程）”、“mission（使命）”、“passion（激情）”这样的词。那时我们谈的是“goals（目标）”、“strategies（策略）”、“objectives（目标）”，但不谈“energy（能量）”或“passion（激情）”。

这说明：过去的企业语言更理性、更目标导向；而现在更多使用带有情感色彩和激励意味的词汇，语言变得更感性、更有激情。

因此，根据南希·科恩的观点，办公室语言的变化趋势是：变得更加情感化了。

现在我们来看选项：

[A] more emotional —— 更情绪化 ✅
[B] more objective —— 更客观（与原文“more emotional”相反） ❌
[C] less energetic —— 更少能量（原文说现在更多谈energy，所以错误） ❌
[D] less strategic —— 更少战略性的（原文没有说战略变少了，只是语言风格变了） ❌

所以，正确答案是：

[A] more emotional

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