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 their pretty peers sitting around them，who，most likely，are doing nothing either．
Paralyzed 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 solve their problems．
According to a recent report by the BBC，95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are procrastinators，complicating their lives with their continual delaying of tasks．
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．
She says the behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel flustered and ashamed，inconveniences others，and annoys loved ones．
Fortunately，social seientists have made tireless efforts to understand this behavioral shortcoming and offer strategies to control it．Piers Steel，a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation，believes humankind is“designed”to procrastinate．Nevertheless，he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand．
The first one is obvious：Break the task down into small pieces and work your way through them methodically．
The second is clever：Give a trusted friend a sum of money and tell them that if you don’t complete the task you have undertaken by a specific time，they can keep it or donate it to a cause you hate.
小題1:What does the underlined word“Procrastination” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．A bad habit of putting work or tasks off．
B．A thief who steals time and money in college.
C．A college student who learns nothing．
D．A study way of doing nothing in the library.
小題2:Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A．College students can have their papers written if they delay them．
B．Many students don’t know what to do in the library．
C．Students can’t solve their procrastination by writing micro blogs．
D．20％of the procrastinators make their life complicated．
小題3:According to Rowan Pelling，we can learn that procrastinators .
A．can find reasonable excuses for their behavior
B．a(chǎn)re able to work best under pressure
C．a(chǎn)re more likely to avoid mistakes at work[]
D．may upset themselves and their loved ones more frequently
小題4:Which of the following may Piers Steel support?
A．Human beings are not born to be procrastinators．
B．Complete your tasks or work step by step．
C．Give your trusted friend money and ask him to help you finish your tasks．
D．You can’t control procrastination but you can avoid it．
小題5:What’she best title of the text?
A．Who steals my time?
B．The solutions to procrastination
C．I’ll do it tomorrow，I swear!
D．Don’t do nothing!

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B
小題5:C

試題分析：拖延癥(procrastination)就像個小偷，偷走了我們的時間，讓我們活在焦慮、煩躁、不安中。如何戰(zhàn)勝拖延癥？一起來看看專家的提示吧
小題1:A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段提到They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space，eating snacks，surfing the Internet，watching videos and looking at their pretty peers sitting around them，who，most likely，are doing nothing either．拖延癥就像偷竊時光的小偷，令許多學(xué)生深受其害。他們整天窩在圖書館里無所事事，只是發(fā)呆、吃零食、上網(wǎng)、看視頻或是看看自己身邊漂亮的同學(xué)，這些人也大都無所事事所以是一種壞習(xí)慣，故選A項。
小題2:C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段提到Paralyzed 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 solve their problems拖延習(xí)慣令他們無法正常學(xué)習(xí)，于是寫微博來表達自己的恐懼，詢問網(wǎng)友是否有時也會遭遇相同狀況。然而，這種做法無濟于事，無法打破拖延癥的魔咒故選C項。
小題3:D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段提到Piers Steel，a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation，believes humankind is“designed”to procrastinate．皮爾斯?斯蒂爾認為，人類生來患有拖延癥故選D項。
小題4:B 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后兩段提到第一種方法顯而易見：把你的任務(wù)分成小份，并用你自己的方法有條不紊地完成它們第二種方法十分巧妙：給你信得過的朋友一筆錢并告訴他們，如果你不能在規(guī)定時間里完成手頭的工作，他們可以歸為己有或是把錢捐給那些你不喜歡的慈善事業(yè)可知選B項。
小題5:C 主旨大意。本文講述拖延癥(procrastination)就像個小偷，偷走了我們的時間，讓我們活在焦慮、煩躁、不安中。，故C項很生動的來描述這一情況。
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E. There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help.
F. Meanwhile, try to form habits that are good for yourselves and others.
G. Therefore, it’s very important for us to pay attention to the formation of habits.

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