【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 　　Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickensa kind of bird living on stretching grasslandsonce lent red to the often grey landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States. But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species 39。historic range.　　The crash was a major reason the . Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)decided to formally list the bird as threatened .The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation , said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe. Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed. They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as endangered, a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats .But Ashe and others argued that the threatened tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservations approaches. In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action. and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken39。s habitat.　　Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowner or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a rangewide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat. Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .The fund will also be used to pensate landowners who set aside habitat , USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years .And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let states remain in the driver 39。s seat for managing the species, Ashe said.　　Not everyone buys the winwin rhetoric. Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court. Not surprisingly, doesn39。t go far enough. The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction, says biologist Jay Lininger.　　 major reason for listing the lesser prairie as threatened is____.　　[A]its drastically decreased population　　[B]the underestimate of the grassland acreage　　[C]a desperate appeal from some biologists　　[D]the insistence of private landowners　　 threatened tag disappointed some environmentalists in that it_____.　　[A]was a givein to governmental pressure　　[B]would involve fewer agencies in action　　[C]granted less federal regulatory power　　[D]went against conservation policies　　 can be learned from Paragraph3 that unintentional harmdoers will not be prosecuted if they_____.　　[A]agree to pay a sum for pensation　　[B]volunteer to set up an equally big habitat　　[C]offer to support the WAFWA monitoring job　　[D]promise to raise funds for USFWS operations　　 to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species in______.　　[A]the federal government　　[B]the wildlife agencies　　[C]the landowners　　[D]the states　　 Lininger would most likely support_______.　　[A]industry groups　　[B]the winwin rhetoric　　[C]environmental groups　　[D]the plan under challengeText 3　　That everyone39。s too busy these days is a clich233。. But one specific plaint is made especially mournfully: There39。s never any time to read.　　What makes the problem thornier is that the usual timemanagement techniques don39。t seem sufficient. The web39。s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: Give up TV or Carry a book with you at all times. But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn39。t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of workrelated thoughts keeps spinningor else you39。re so exhausted that a challenging book39。s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, is overwhelmingly inclined toward munication…It is not simply that one is interrupted。 it is that one is actually inclined to interruption. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can39。t be obtained merely by being more efficient.　　In fact, being more efficient is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even timewasting. Try to slot it as a todo list item and you39。ll manage only goalfocused readinguseful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. The future es at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt, writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and we feel a pressure to fill these differentsized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them. No mindset could be worse for losing yourself in a book.　　So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You39。d think this might fuel the efficiency mindset, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us step outside time39。s flow into soul time. You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on singlepurpose ereaders. Carry a book with you at all times can actually work, tooproviding you dip in often enough, so that reading bees the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you39。re making time to read, but just reading, and making time for everything else.