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to the mirror and wondering,“ What happened to the slim, young Adonis (希臘神話中的美少年 )?” ◆ It can be inferred from the first paragraph that the young people are ________. A. creative B. greedy C. energetic D. humorous 解析 :青年人整夜不睡 (stay up all night partying or studying)也沒有問題 (No problem),他們的食量很大 (eat...and plow...nonstop), 根據(jù)這些敘述自然可推知青年人精力充沛。 答案: C 【 實踐應(yīng)用 】 Making lists is dictates the shape of the immediate future; it calms you down (it’s OK, it’s on a list somewhere) and it makes you feel good when you cross something off (listmaking is standard practice in therapy for depression). It might even help you to get things done more you have to do, the more you need a list and few people with highpowered jobs get by without always think they’re better at lists than tend to have Tasks which they assemble into Action Plans whereas women just have lists of Things To Do. James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own “time management matrix (模式 )”. He writes a list of things to do and then anizes them into categories: things that have to be done straight away, other things that it would be good to do today,things that are important but haven’t got to be done immediately and things that are less urgent but that he doesn’t want to fet.“Using categories to order the world is the way the human mind works,” he says.“After that, you should divide things into levels of importance.” But he also warns,“ If people get too absorbed in making lists, it doesn’t have too many categories and lose their ability to decide which is the most important.” It’s all a question of what works best for you, whether it’s a tidy notebook, a packet of Post—it notes or the back of your tried all these, student Kate Rollins relies on a puterized list, which is printed out each morning.“My electronic anizer has changed my life,” she says.“Up to now,I’ve always relied on my good memory, but now that I’m working and studying, I find I’ve got too much to keep in my head.” So what are you waiting for? No, you’re not too busy to make today the first day of your upgraded timemanaged fact,there’s no better time than the present to begin to take increased control of your work and , get out your pencil and pen and make a list. 1. The main purpose of making lists is to ________. A. help map out one’s future B. divide things into levels of importance C. treat certain diseases such as depression D. anize one’s work and life reasonably 答案: D 2. We can learn from the passage that ________. A. good memory helps in list making B. too much listing might be misleading C. women usually make a lot more lists than men D. people with highpowered jobs make lists most 答案: B