How to Find Time to Read?
That everyone’s too busy these days is ordinary. But one specific complaint is made especially sadly：1.
What makes the problem worse is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem efficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times”2.Sit down to read and the work-related thoughts keeps going on and on or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “Most people tend to communicate…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one actually tends to interrupt”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.
3.Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it on purpose, making 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 time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading-useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes 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 different-sized bottles(days, hours, minutes)as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”.4.
So what does work？Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such usual behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”.5.
“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default 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 you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.
A.How do we make reading easy?
B.There’s never any time to read.
C.In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem.
D.No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.
E.Most people don't pay more attention to physical book reading.
F.You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.
G.But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.
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How to Find Time to Read?
That everyone’s too busy these days is ordinary. But one specific complaint is made especially sadly：1.
What makes the problem worse is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem efficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times”2.Sit down to read and the work-related thoughts keeps going on and on or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “Most people tend to communicate…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one actually tends to interrupt”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.
3.Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it on purpose, making 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 time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading-useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes 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 different-sized bottles(days, hours, minutes)as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”.4.
So what does work？Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such usual behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”.5.
“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default 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 you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.
A.How do we make reading easy?
B.There’s never any time to read.
C.In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem.
D.No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.
E.Most people don't pay more attention to physical book reading.
F.You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.
G.But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.
高三英语七选五困难题查看答案及解析
Too shy, too broke, too busy, too lazy to hit the gym these days? With FitTV, a cable station that offers 20 hours of fitness and health programing every day, another excuse for not exercising doesn’t work. But you'll still have to get up off that couch.
"FitTV is currently the only network for fitness and keeping exercise and fitness programing fresh and accessible to everyone," Carole Tomko, president and general manager of FitTV, said in an interview.
Part of Discovery Communications Inc., the station offers the workout choices, ranging from Pilates and aerobics（有氧运动）to body sculpting, yoga, belly dancing and hip hop.
"I wanted FitTV to be a clear and inviting alternative to 'hitting the gym,'" Tomko said from her headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland.
There are exotic locations. You may be in your living room, but decathlon champion Gilad Janklowicz, an aerobics instructor, is helping you develop you from the golden sands of Hawaii's Waikiki Beach.
In the "Namaste" yoga classes, bendy young women in sports bras and shorts execute their poses（摆姿势）as the scene behind them shifts from park to beach to sun-flooded studio.
FitTV also delivers lifestyle programing on nutrition and weight loss, and a video-on-demand service allows viewers to call up favorite shows at will.
Dr. Kenneth McCulloch, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery of New York University School of Medicine, said that in general, the concept is a great idea.
"It seems that they recognize that diet and exercise go hand in hand," McCulloch said. "The other major benefit is accessibility."
FitTV targets adults ages 25-54 and is available in 47 million homes nationwide, according to Tomko, who says the subscriber base has increased steadily since 2003.
1.What does the underlined sentence in the first paragraph mean?
A. FitTV makes exercising come true. B. Exercising is quite necessary.
C. It’s convenient to exercise with FitTV D. FitTV can be helpful to certain people.
2.Which of the following is not the service FitTV provides?
A. Yoga classes B. Weight loss C. Sculptures D. Favorite shows
3.The sixth paragraph is intended to tell us that_________.
A. yoga classes are of great interest B. young women can subscribe this class
C. there’re different locations for yoga D. yoga classes take place in the park
4.Which of the following can be true according to the passage?
A. Many people are nowadays too lazy to hit gyms.
B. FitTV has fresh programes and is accessible for subscribers.
C. Dr McCulloch doesn’t think too much of FitTV.
D. Teenagers can be subscribers to FitTV programs.
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— How is your table tennis these days? Still playing?
—______. I just don't seem to find the time these days.
A. That's right B. No, not much
C. That's great D. Don’t worry
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—You seem busy these days.
—Yes. I’m looking for a house. It’s really not easy to find _____ with four bedrooms.
A. one B. the one C. it D. that
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—You seem busy these days.
—Yes. I’m looking for a house. It’s really not easy to find _____ with a garden.
A. this B. that C. it D. one
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--- I’d like to have a picnic tomorrow.
--- _________. We’re too busy these days.
A. Forget it. B. So what?
C. That’s all right. D. It’s a pleasure
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-- I’d like to have a picnic tomorrow.
--- _________. We’re too busy these days.
A. Forget it. B. So what?
C. That’s all right. D. It’s a pleasure
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It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and ______ to make a real difference. But all that changed when I ______ my good-deed-a-day project.
My daughter, Emily, was my primary ______. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be ______.
The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could ______ it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I ______ a blind man in the subway station. He ______ as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a ______ nursing home......I could only hope I was arousing ______ in others.
After just a few days, ______ I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a/an ______.
Every evening at the dinner table, I ______ that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began ______ what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she ______ to a neighbour’s pot of geraniums (天竺葵), which had toppled (摇晃) in the wind, and set it right. “That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect ______ from our neighbours for the food bank. We dropped off the food and, ______ we drove away, Emily announced ______ that she wanted to work there one day.
By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely ______ that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second ______. I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need, ______ looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.
1.A. energy B. space C. wisdom D. salary
2.A. stopped B. started C. forgot D. remembered
3.A. donation B. expectation C. celebration D. inspiration
4.A. lucky B. clever C. happy D. merciful
5.A. get B. manage C. put D. appreciate
6.A. watched B. waited C. guided D. ordered
7.A. smiled B. sighed C. frowned D. jumped
8.A. popular B. distant C. deserted D. local
9.A. interest B. mercy C. awareness D. praise
10.A. though B. besides C. therefore D. also
11.A. discovery B. difference C. mistake D. fortune
12.A. reminded B. pointed C. recalled D. described
13.A. criticizing B. sharing C. laughing D. praising
14.A. marched over B. pulled over C. turned over D. fell over
15.A. money B. vegetables C. donations D. clothes
16.A. before B. since C. until D. as
17.A. proudly B. eagerly C. anxiously D. casually
18.A. concerned B. convinced C. expected D. persuaded
19.A. scene B. language C. nature D. skill
20.A. by means of B. regardless of C. as well as D. instead of
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91.You will find as you read fiats book that you just can’t keep some of these stones to ______. You will want to share them with a friend.
| A．itself | B．yourself | C．himself | D．themselves |
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You will find as you read this book that you just can’t keep some of these stories to ________. You will want to share them with a friend.
A. itself B. yourself C. himself D. themselves
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