One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students. To drive his

___ 41___home, he used an illustration(演示) those students will never ___42____.

“Okay, now watch carefully,” and then he pulled out a wide-mouth jar(宽口瓶) and set it on the ____43____ in front of him. He also ___44___ out a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully ___45___ them, one at a time, into the jar.

When the jar was filled to the ___46___ and no more rocks would ___47___ inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class answered, “Yes.”

The expert replied, “Really?” He ___48___ under the table and pulled out a bucket of small stones. He dropped some ___49___and then asked the group once more, “Is the jar full?’

By this time the class was on to him. “___50___,” one of them answered carefully.

“Good!” he replied, and then brought out a bucket of sand. He started dropping the sand in the jar and it ___51___ into all of the ___52___ left between the rocks and the small stones. ___53__ he asked the question, “Is this jar full?” “No!” the class shouted.

“Good!” Then he looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?”

One ___54___ student raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how ___55___ your schedule is, if you ___56___ really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”

“___57__,” the speaker replied. “That’s not the point. The ___58___ this illustration teaches us is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in ___59___.”

What are the “big rocks” in your ___60___? Then, put those in your jar first.

41. A. time     B. point      C. example     D. speech

42. A. understand   B. remember    C. realize     D. forget

43. A. board     B. chair      C. floor      D. table

44. A. shaped    B. formed     C. took       D. performed

45. A. dropped    B. threw     C. drew       D. placed

46. A. surface    B. edge      C. top       D. end

47. A. fix      B. fit       C. fill       D. feed

48. A. reached    B. extended    C. fetched     D. inched

49. A. off      B. down      C. out       D. in

50. A. No way    B. Probably not   C. Of course    D. Certainly is

51. A. entered    B. broke      C. went      D. came

52. A. space     B. area       C. places      D. rooms

53. A. Once or twice  B. Once more    C. All at once    D. Once in a while

54. A. nervous    B. impatient    C. anxious     D. eager

55. A. full      B. whole      C. entire      D. thorough

56. A. work     B. try       C. think       D. act

57. A. Maybe    B. Never      C. Okay      D. No

58. A. means     B. fact      C. truth       D. reality

59. A. after all    B. above all    C. at all       D. and all

60. A. life      B. time      C. way       D. year

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