Time can be categorized (分类) into three general types:
Predictable Time: Such activities as classes, team practice, eating and sleeping. If you know the restaurant is open between 7:00am and 7:30pm, you should plan to eat sometime between that block of time.
Discretionary Time: This is free time that can be planned in a manner matching with your lifestyle and to carry through the most important considerations in your life.
Imposed Time: Activities including unexpected and difficult or dangerous situations which happen suddenly and which require quick action to deal with them.
How to manage your Time:
Value Your Own Situation. The first step is to know yourself. People work differently. Some people are very active in the early morning and can carry out much at that time. Others find that their most powerful time is later in the day.
Get Organized. Make a shopping list or make some type of planned notebook. This may seem simple but you would be surprised how many people do not use these necessary things.
Prepare a To-Do List. Consider all that you wish to complete and make a list. Prioritize (优先排序) these items using three rules A, B, C:
A=" Most" important goal that needs to be completed very soon
B=" Next" important goal that does not have immediate necessity
C=" Finally," do all other things.
Plan Your Time. Fill in any spaces purposely left blank, and block out time to sleep. Be realistic, most college students don’t go to bed at 9 pm. Choose time for recreation each day.
Plan Study Time. Students should study 2-3 hours for every unit, for a total of 25-35 hours per week.
Time management is a system of learning to give first concern to the tasks you wish to complete. The key to being a good time manager is to learn to make full use of discretionary time and try to use it successfully.
【小题1】What does the underlined phrase “Imposed Time” mean?

At the age of 61，Daddy Bruce opened his restaurant in a poor area of Denver．There is doubt about whether his ___1___ was the best in town but there is no doubt about the man himself．He was a ___2___ man，and he started a rare and fine tradition to feed people--not just his customers（顾客），___3___ the poor and the homeless．

Every Thanksgiving，Daddy and his son began cooking for the ___4___．He wanted them to have a great ___5___ on this important day of their country．

In the early years he ___6___ for everything by himself．But as ___7___ went on，the crowds grew and the costs rose．That's when Daddy's supporters joined ___8___ in his project．From then on，more and more people began to step in to help．

They donated turkeys and potatoes．And they ___9___ their time to stand behind and beside the old man and offer to cook and serve．___10___ seemed that there was an endless supply of food to feed the poor．No one ever walked away ___11__ from Daddy Bruce．Daddy started the whole thing and he didn't stop it until a few years ago ___12___ he aged towards ninety and had become too old to work on．

He was one of the few people who ___13___ to see a city street named in his honor．In 1991，one of the streets in his hometown was named “Daddy Bruce”．A few years later，he died．

When he was asked why he ___14___ to feed the thousands of poor and hungry people for over twenty-five years，his reply was simple．“You can't beat love．___15___ beats love．If you give just one thing，you get three things back，That's why I do it．” And he did it well，

1．A．breakfast             B．lunch              C．supper            D．food

2．A．selfish               B．kind               C．serious            D．stubborn

3．A．and                B．so                C．but               D．or

4．A．homeless            B．elderly             C．public             D．disabled

5．A．rest                 B．dinner             C．break              D．bath

6．A．looked               B．cared              C．sent             D．paid

7．A．life                  B．time               C．history             D．plan

8．A．actively              B．quietly             C．wildly             D．carefully

9．A．spared              B．spent            C．wasted             D．killed

10．A．What              B．There             C．It               D．This

11．A．satisfied           B．thirsty             C．hungry            D．happy

12．A．when             B．which             C．that               D．while

13．A．came            B．lived              C．wanted            D．wished

14．A．happened          B．had               C．volunteered         D．refused

15．A．Everything          B．Anything            C．Something          D．Nothing