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。t afford to pay ma monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to mark that happen. Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a fortable life for their children even though neither had pleted college when he was young.I still grew up in an upper middleclass home with parents who didn39。re making time to read, but just reading, and making time for everything else. 31. The usual timemanagement techniques don39。d think this might fuel the efficiency mindset, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us step outside time39。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。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。t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of workrelated thoughts keeps spinningor else you39。t seem sufficient. The web39。. But one specific plaint is made especially mournfully: There39。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 is______. [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 3That everyone39。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。t drop out of high school and build the next Facebook. Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the Ruby on Rails language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market. But the skills they learn how to think logically through a problem and organize the results apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina. Indeed, the Flatiron students might not go into IT at all. But creating a future army of coders is not the sole purpose of the classes. These kids are going to be surrounded by putersin their pockets ,in their offices, in their homes for the rest of their lives, The younger they learn how puters think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that the better. holds that early exposure to puter science makes it easier to _______ [A] plete future job training [B] remodel the way of thinking [C] formulate logical hypotheses [D] perfect artwork production delivering lessons for high schoolers , Flatiron has considered their________ [A] experience [B] interest [C