Question

As the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay that paper.

Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely, are doing nothing either.

Paralyzed (使失去活力) by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell (魔咒).

According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than those who don’t delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.

Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved ones.

Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent (過失的）in a society that thinks of speedy action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.

Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strategies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.

1.From the first two paragraphs we can learn that _________.

A. procrastination is beneficial to many students

B. many students are under great pressure in their study

C.many students have the habit of delaying finishing their tasks

D. lots of college students work hard to write good essays on time

2.Which behavior belongs to procrastination?

A. Never dream away the time.

B. Always complete the tasks ahead of time.

C. Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.

D. Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.

3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

A. Procrastination makes people waste their time.

B. Procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.

C. Speedy action is considered as a moral standard in the society.

D. Procrastination is common among people.

4.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A. Measures to deal with procrastination.

B. Approaches to handling the study pressures.

C. More examples to illustrate procrastination.

D. Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了“拖延癥”。拖延癥是偷走時間的賊，有拖延習慣的學生往往花一整天時間發呆、吃零食、上網，而不完成學習任務。對于應對拖延癥，加拿大的社會學家提出了一些方法。

1.more likely, how best to delay that paper ...Procrastination is the thief of time...They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos”可知，大多數學生喜歡把論文延期，他們喜歡拖延時間，哪怕一天無所事事，故選C。

2.They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos”可知，有拖延的毛病的學生，不會按時，甚至是提前完成任務，他們總是讓時間白白流逝，排除A、B、C，故選D。

3. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time.”可知，當學生把事情拖延到最后一刻再去完成時，由于時間倉促，他們會出現很多錯誤，故選B。

4.he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand”可知，接下來會介紹社會學家Piers Steel應對拖延的方法，故選A。

考點：社會類短文閱讀