【正文】 on, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations. While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those just getting started in life face a tougher goodpaying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27yearold auto technician from the Chicago suburbs says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college. Even now that he is working steadily, he said. I can39。s flow into soul time. You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on singlepurpose ereaders. Carry abook with you at all times can actually work, too—providing you dip in often enough, so that reading bees thedefault 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。ll manage only goalfocused reading —useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfillingkind. 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。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 maximized means you approach it instrumentally。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 spinning or 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.26. The 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 Paragraph 3 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 operations29. According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species lies 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 rhetoric3[C] environmental groups[D] the plan under challengeText 3That everyone39。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, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far 。 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 conservation approaches. In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which a