Read the passage and choose the correct answer.
A. Advantages of time management:
gains time, motivates and initiates, reduces avoidance, promotes review of work, eliminates cramming for exams, reduces anxiety.
Keys to successful time management:
- Self-knowledge and goals: In order to manage your time successfully, having an awareness of what your goals are will assist you in prioritising.
- Developing and maintaining a personal, flexible schedule: Time management provides you with the opportunity to create a schedule that works for you, not for the others. This personal attention gives you the flexibility to include things that are most important to you.
B. What is RescueTime?
RescueTime is a web-based time-management tool that allows you to easily understand how you spend your time. You install a program on your computer and we magically track all of your time usage.
I always have a lot of different applications and sites open at any given time. How does RescueTime handle that?
RescueTime doesn't really care which applications you have open, but rather pays attention to which application or side is currently “in focus”. In other words, we are measuring what’s what you are paying attention to, not what you have open.
What about when I get up from my computer? How are you going to measure that?
Why would you ever want to do that? Seriously, though - RescueTime has an idle timeout that will stop the data collection process if there hasn't been mouse or keyboard activity for a certain period of time.
How accurate is RescueTime?
We like to say that RescueTime is about 95% accurate. Because of idle detection, RescueTime can sometimes over-report by a few seconds here and there. We are constantly working to improve accuracy.
C. Have you been trying to improve your time management skills or overall personal effectiveness? Do you feel like you are still missing some key details? If so, we've got something for you.
This personal time management guide and the accompanying newsletter are dedicated to building a stronger foundation for your success. One skill at a time.
Each section of the guide is an important building block you can put into your foundation right now. Take one of the pages and read it: you will gain the key insights and practical tips for one of the core areas of higher personal effectiveness. Take another page and do the same. Each article will move you one step forward in something that could be limiting your success Ievel today.
D. Time management is commonly defined as the various means by which people effectively use their time and other closely related resources in order to make the most out of it. It refers to principles and systems that individuals use to make conscious decisions about the activities that occupy their time.
However, it has been said that you can’t manage time, time just is. So “time management” is a mislabelled problem. What you really manage is your activity during time.
In which text does the writer answer questions?
In which text does the writer promote a book?
In which text does the writer define something?
In which text does the writer address students?
In which text does the writer claim that time management is good for people who procrastinate?
Which text is saying the following: Time cannot be managed.
John's never happy. He's always _____ about one thing or another.
The retiring firemen received a commemorative gift _____ a set of pens and pencils.
Don’t forget to plug in the _____ cable before turning the printer on.
Sally _____ when she heard that her sister was on the hijacked plane.
A: Have you taken everything into account?
B: Yes, I think I’ve made _______ for just about everything.
Rising temperatures are said to be ________ the habitats and feeding patterns of penguins.
Stop shouting! You’re ______ attention to yourself.
Read this post carefully and answer the questions that follow.
JAYWALKING
The origins of jaywalking, the illegal crossing of a roadway by a pedestrian, lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the early 1900s. The word “jaywalker” was first used to describe someone from the countryside who wasn’t accustomed to the rules of the road for pedestrians in the city, so would attempt to cross the streets anywhere. In 1913, a department store in New York hired a Santa Claus, who stood on the sidewalk bellowing at people who didn’t cross the street properly and calling them jaywalkers.
The idea of being fined for crossing the road at undesignated areas or without regard for traffic regulations can confuse foreign visitors to the US. The UK, Norway and France are among the many developed countries where jaywalking is not an offence, but their rates of pedestrian injuries are lower than those of the US. However, a handful of countries have followed the lead of the US and imposed anti-jaywalking measures. Police in China, for example, began fining jaywalkers in 2013, and in Singapore, jaywalking can lead to a $1000 fine or a three-month jail term.
In the US, jaywalking can result in a fine ranging from $190 to $250. As in most countries with anti-jaywalking legislation, enforcement of the law here is sporadic, often only triggered by repeated complaints from drivers in certain areas. But jaywalking has been illegal in the US for many decades. According to Jacob Rath, a history professor at the University of Virginia, a key moment was in 1929 when a petition was signed by the citizens of Cincinnati to limit the top speed of cars to 25mph. Though the petition failed, car makers scrambled to shift the blame for pedestrian casualties from motorists to pedestrians. Soon, he adds, they also started influencing school safety education by stressing that “streets are for cars, not for children”. As a result, anti-jaywalking laws were adopted in many cities and had become the norm by the end of the 1930s.
In the decades that followed, the overriding goal of city planners and engineers was to allow traffic to circulate unhindered. “For years, pedestrians were essentially written out of the equation when it came to designing streets,” says Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic - Why We Drive the Way We Do. “They didn’t even appear in early computer models, and when they did, it was largely for their role in blocking vehicle traffic. This has made US cities unusually hostile to pedestrians,” says Vanderbilt. Jaywalking has become an “often misunderstood umbrella term”, covering many situations in which the pedestrian should, in effect, have the right of way.
In the US, resistance to anti-jaywalking legislation is growing. The Los Angeles Police Department recently advertised an anti-jaywalking campaign on its Facebook page, respondents accused the police of simply seeking an easy source of revenue. And in New York, in its effort to crack down on jaywalking, the mayor’s office has come up against opposition from voters and police officers. Advocates of jaywalking say careless drivers, not pedestrians, are most often to blame for motorists-pedestrian accidents, pedestrian deaths and injuries, and that there is no evidence to prove that anti-jaywalking campaigns are effective. They believe that there is too little experimentation with projects that aim to make US cities more pedestrian-friendly, such as increasing motorists’ awareness of pedestrians and reducing traffic speeds in urban areas.
Leave your comments:
Very interesting facts about jaywalking, but your post is wrong when it states that “it is not an offence in the UK”. Jaywalking is an offence in Northern Ireland (part of the UK), although, fortunately, traffic officers rarely enforce the law. But if and when they do, it can result in either a written warning or a £30 fine. - Ian McInnes
Which of the following is closest in meaning to “bellowing” in paragraph 1?
Who would most likely be fined for jaywalking in the United States?
What does the author imply in the second paragraph?
Who campaigned for the introduction of anti-jaywalking legislation?
Which of the following is closest in meaning to “written out of the equation” in paragraph 4?
How did early city planners view pedestrians?
What can be inferred about traffic officers in the US?
What do people who oppose anti-jaywalking laws believe?
Why has Ian McInnes left a comment on the weblog?
Read the text about homework and choose the correct word that best fits each of the blanks.
A study of the impact of homework in different countries claims that the pressure of homework causes between children and parents. According to the study, this pressure is most evident in families where parents are for their children to succeed at school.
The recently released study is a review of research over 75 years, which the impact of homework in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. It claims homework can become a source of tension, particularly when parents try to too much control.
The study states that parents have the most positive influence when they offer moral support, make appropriate resources available and discuss general issues, adding that parents should only offer their help when their children specifically ask them to. The report also backs the effectiveness of homework clubs, which have recently popular in many schools. These provide a quiet where children can study after formal lessons finish, with a teacher often available to help them. Children feel that these clubs homework enjoyable and given them a better chance of passing exams.
Choose the sentence which is CLOSEST in meaning to the given one.
"You have spoilt my party,” she told her brother.
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She had never been to such a boring party before.
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Cathy had better stop eating so much chocolate.
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Bill should have arrived by now.
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Without his help, she would not have managed to solve the problem.
Read the text about oil spill and choose the correct word that best fits each of the blanks.
On an ecologist’s list of nightmares, this looked like an easy member of the Top Five. An Ecuadorian fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos archipelago and slowly spilled its of 240 000 gallons of oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate ; the islands whose giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” in 1859.
The emergency began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30-year-old boat, a buoy for a lighthouse and ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship’s cargo was 65% diesel oil for Baltra Island and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from the Ecuadorian navy and state-owned fuel company began fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to 2 meters in , the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would pour out over 180000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of in the Galapagos archipelago, setting an initial $2 million for cleanup operations.
The English spoken in Canada is similar _____ the United States.
After the eruption, lava _____ out of the volcano and poured down the mountainside.
"Did Celine ever graduate from university?"
"No, _____ at university for 18 months, she dropped out to find work."
_____ Keith made in his attempt to catch the dog that he strained his back.
The examinee couldn’t understand the question, so he asked _____ from the supervisor.
Democrats would have done better in the midterms _____ they run as the peace party.
Human Rights Watch documented that thousands of orphans and abandoned children _____ each year.
- "He needs to go on a strict diet."
- "I agree. He does eat ________ much."
- "Didn’t you hear the doorbell?"
- "No, I _____ fast asleep."
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
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tough
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rough
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Nowadays, despite their parents’ efforts to keep them innocent, children are growing up much more quickly than they did a generation ago.
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In those countries where public health care is available, less unnecessary medical procedures occur and lawyers are rarely involved in settling disputes.
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Julia has discovered that she can express her opinions more freely through her diary and not in her letters.
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In the 18th century, careers in medicine and law were prestigious, but it did not require practitioners to hold college degrees.
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The director’s second movie is quite different from his first and, in continuity at least, is more superior to it.
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Human population, far from being randomly scattered across the continents, appear to be distributed in circular patterns.
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Edward Graves was one of a handful of people who committed his life to preserve the pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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When rumors of a secret wedding began to spread, neither of the movie stars were available for comment.
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The main rule of the stables is clearly posted and reads as follows: anyone who has not rode a horse before must be accompanied on the trail by an experienced guide.
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