You should have informed me that the lecture ...

You should have informed me that the lecture was put off．I ________ all the way here through the heavy rain．

A．needn’t have run                                B．can’t have run

C．shouldn’t have run                             D．mustn’t have run

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You should have informed me that the lecture was put off. I ________ all the way here through the heavy rain.

A．needn’t have run         B．can’t have run

C．shouldn’t have run           D．mustn’t have run

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We are all for your proposal that the discussion _______.

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What's that one thing you really should do, but keep putting off? We all have them: time-consuming, or difficult chores we're afraid of and drag out until the last minute — if we complete them at all.

But what if we could drive ourselves into those boring tasks by pairing them with something we really enjoy? Research suggests that combining the things we want to do, with the thing we should do, could be a nice trick to reach our goals. The method is known as "temptation bundling" and it allows you to combine two differing, but complementary activities at the same time.

"I only let myself get a footbath when I'm doing some work," says Katherine Milkman, a professor of behavioral economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Another example? Going to your favorite restaurant but with a difficult colleague, or someone you're supposed to spend time with, such as a relative.

In short, it's pairing something you like with something you don't like, offering you incentive to do something you might be putting off.

Exercise is one activity routinely treated as a boring task — so Milkman used it in an experiment to know how temptation bundling works in reality.

In her experiment. Milkman encouraged students to exercise while listening to addictive, page-turning audiobooks. One group, which could only access the audiobooks while at the gym, were 51% more likely to exercise than the control group, which were able to listen when they liked. Another group, whose access to the audiobooks was not restricted but who were merely encouraged to bundle the activities, were 29% more likely to exercise than the control group.

The benefit of "temptation bundling" comes from doing two things at once that go well together, says Milkman. "The secret is to bundle tasks that require different effort. For instance, if one task requires focus or concentration, you want the other not to be too distracting — reading while listening to a podcast is very difficult, for example, while cooking and listening is more realistic." Milkman adds.

1.Temptation bundling can help us to______.

A.avoid delaying what should be done in time.

B.solve two problems at a time.

C.put what we have learned into practice.

D.improve our ability to face a chore.

2.The two percentages 51% and 29% in paragraph 6 show that_____.

A.many people treat exercise as a boring task.

B.most people consider listening to audiobooks a boring thing.

C.combining two activities at the same time can contribute to each other.

D.the control group do the worst in dealing with physical exercise.

3.Which of the following is true according to this passage?

A.Cooking and listening can be combined because neither needs focus.

B.Combining two differing, but complementary tasks is popular among us.

C.Milkman's experiment shows that temptation bundling is effective.

D.Temptation bundling is suitable for reading and listening to a podcast.

4.This passage is intended to tell us_____.

A.what benefits pairing two tasks will bring us.

B.how to get a boring task completed.

C.what tasks can be paired with each other.

D.how to identify the bad habit of putting off.

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It was strongly recommended that the sports meeting ________ till next week.

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“Do you think________I should attend the lecture?” she asked me.

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The lecture was so complex that I simply couldn’t ______ at all. Could you explain it to me?

A. bring on　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. bring in　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 C. take on　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 D. take in　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　

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The lecture was so complex that I simply couldn’t ______ at all. Could you explain it to me?

A. bring on　　 B. bring in

C. take on 　 D. take in

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“ They went to the lecture, but it had been put off.” “ Oh, so they _______.”

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It’s recommended that our plan _____ until it was tested again.

A. put off　　 　　　　 B. be put off

C. should put off　　 D. would be put off

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