41. According to the passage, what may not result in addictive shopping?
A. The awareness of how market forces work.
B. The desire for status, power, beauty or success.
C. Boredom, emptiness, tension, fear or unhappiness in people’s life.
D. Long-time bad feelings of anxiety, pain and shame.
42. What does the author suggest to control our shopping behaviour?
A. Never go to the shopping malls because there are many tricks.
B. Apply for a credit card before we go shopping.
C. Make the shopping time as short as possible.
D. Make a shopping list before we go shopping.
43. The author writes this passage to _____.
A. inform the shopping malls how to attract more shoppers
B. provide solutions to the problem shopping
C. scold the problem shoppers
D. tell a shopping story
C
No one has enough, but everyone has all there is. We each have just twenty-four
hours in a day. Time is not our problems, but what we do with the limited time we have is the issue. Many people spend their days on dozens of activities, but achieve very little because they aren’t concentrating on right things. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80:20 Rule shows us that typically eighty percent of unfocused effort generates only twenty percent of the results. The remaining eighty percent of the results are achieved with only twenty percent of the effort. To effectively manage your time, you need to change where you are spending your time. We all have the same amount of time every day. How you spend your time is how you spend your life. Here are time management strategies, which may be helpful.
Learn to say no
Politely say no should become a habit. Saying no frees up time for the things that
are most important.
Make a “to-do” list
List the tasks that need to be done in order of their importance. Save other less important things for when you have time.
Minimize interruption(打扰)
Plan ahead. Think through projects. Look for ways to example, close your door, don’t answer the phone or work in a different space.
Combine several activities
Try to do several activities at one time. While going to school, listen to taped notes. This allows up to an hour or two a day of good study review. While showering, make a mental list of the things. Above all, be creative, and let it work for you.
44. According to the Pareto Principle, we can know that _____. .
A. people can’t achieve a lot even though they concentrate on right things
B. people should focus more effort on right and important things and finish them
first
C. people are certain to succeed if they spend twenty percent of their time
D. eighty percent of effort spent on one matter is useless
45. According to the passage, if you want to do several things on Sunday, you should _____.
A. do them while listening to the music
B. do all of them at one time
C. do the most important one first
D. put some of them off till next Monday
46. The underlined word “block” in the passage means “_____”.
A. accept B. prevent C. arrange D. defend
47.What would be the best title of the passage？
A. Time Management B. The Pareto Principle
C. How to Make a “To-do” List D. Time and Habits
D
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old
university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work
and life.
Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking and cheap, some exquisite and expensive—telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you
noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are
the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided for us.”
God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of
everything. "[Z
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.