题目内容
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．“last week, ”said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church．As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back．”
“How did you write your advertisement?” asked one of the listeners, a merchant．
“Here it is,” said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper．The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella．The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No．10 Broad Street．”
“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well．But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance．Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I'll buy you a new one．”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote：“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No．10 Broad Street．He is well known．”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door．In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown, and his own was among them．Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter．
1. The man once thought advertising was ________．
A. of little use
B. of some use
C. practical
D. valuable
2.Why did the merchant say “I often advertise and find that it pays me well”?
A. He knew how to advertise．
B. He had more money for advertising．
C. He found it easy to advertise
D. He had a friend in the newspaper where he advertised.
3.Who had probably taken the umbrella?
A. The merchant.
B. The man himself.
C. Someone we don’t know.
D. The merchant’s friend.
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. a useless advertisement
B. how to make an effective advertisement
C. how the man lost and found his umbrella
D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner
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Time management refers to managing time effectively so that the right time is allocated to the right activity. Time management is essential in every field of life because time is the precious resource one needs to accomplish a task. Every single moment that passes once will never come back again. Time management helps you do your task in time and use your time more productively. It helps you to identify the useless activities which can be avoided and how time can be saved. It helps you allocate proper time for a task and perform the task more efficiently.
A student’s daily routine is filled with a lot of activities. Some are related to his studies, some are essential for his life and some are for entertainment or physical fitness. Still some activities have no use and just waste time. Similarly if the number of the activities for entertainment exceeds what is reasonable, they waste the time of a student. These activities include using the internet for chatting, playing games, watching movies or listening to music for hours on end. Such activities are called “distracters” which distract one from one’s real purpose.
Games and physical exercise are important for a student because they keep him fit in body and mind but game time should be controlled as it may waste his time.
No one wastes time intentionally. Time is always wasted in an insensible way. That’s why a student is aware of it until the days of exams come. So it is better to use the present time more effectively than cry over what you’ve done in the future.
As for a student, time management compromises various steps. It is not only necessary to allocate time for different subjects but also to identify right time for each such subject. What’s more, to identify the distracters which become causes of wastage of time is of significance as well.
Take a pen and sheet. Write down all the activities you do in your daily routine. Calculate how much time you have for your studies other than other activities. Determine how much time a subject can take out of your total study time. See which subject need more time.
Time management
Definition | You manage your time effectively for the 1. of giving the right time to the right activity. |
Significance | ●It is essential in every field of life because of the 2. of time. ●It helps you do your task in time, use your time more productively, 3. wasting time, give proper time to a task and perform the task more effectively. |
4. | ●Identify all the activities in your daily routine and remove 5. ones. ●Strictly 6. time spent on activities for entertainment. ●Games and physical exercise are helpful to keep you fit physically and 7. , but the amount of time spent on them should not exceed what is reasonable. ●Time is always wasted in an insensible way, so take care. ●Manage the present time more effectively in order not to cry over the 8. in the future. |
Steps | ● 9. all the activities in your daily routine. ● Calculating how much time you need for your studies other than other activities. ● 10. time for different subjects. ● Identifying the right time for each subject. |