One of the most effective skills you can have in life is powerful and effective time management.
Set goals the right way.
Find a good time management system.
One of the tips for managing your time is to find the right system to actually do it. The quadrant（象限）time-management system is probably the most effective.
Take frequent breaks when working.
One study suggests that you should work for 52 minutes and break for 17 minutes. You might not have enough time to do that. But you should take frequent breaks. If you’re a boss working for yourself, this is vital. It’s easy to run out of energy and not even know it.
Make to-do lists in the evening for the next day.
Every single evening before bed, make a list for the next day. Look at your goals and see what you can do to help move you closer.
| A．This doesn’t happen overnight. |
| B．There’s a right or wrong way to set goals. |
| C．Use your time wisely by abandoning your bad habits. |
| D．You cannot reach your goals without managing your time well. |
| E．Find a good friend who can help you solve the problem of time management. |
| F．It divides your activities into four quadrants based on urgency and importance. |
| G．Keep your mental, emotional and physical states at peak levels by breaking frequently. |
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【推荐1】AC/DC have postponed their US, tour after singer Brian Johnson was warned by doctors that he was at risk of“ total hearing loss". This is unsurprising that the Australian band has been pumping out the hard rock decibel(分贝). But deafness isn’t only a concern for rock musicians. Anyone around music a lot has reason to be equally worried.
When you are exposed to music, risk to hearing arises from a combination of how loud the sound is and how long you’ re exposed to it for. If you visit a nightclub with music at 100 dB, then after only 10~15 minutes the exposure is potentially damaging. In a quieter part of the club, but where the music is still loud enough that you have to shout at your friends, them you could be there for a couple of hours before having to worry about your hearing. Of course music frequently exceeds (超过) 80~85 dB, but what counts most in assessing the risk to hearing is the average exposure.
Exposure to high noise levels often causes temporary deafness-something many people have experienced after going to a nightclub. While hearing usually recovers , repeated loud exposure leads to permanent hearing damage. Initially, this damage is unlikely to be noticed by the listener. Problems only become significant in middle age when the noise-caused hearing loss combines with the natural loss of hearing due to ageing.
Often orchestras employ screens or “musicians ear plugs” to block sound from the loudest instruments. These decrease sound without completely blocking everything out and are very useful in rehearsal(训练), but get in the way of balancing the sound in a concert. Professional orchestras also look at how they schedule music to ensure that musicians are exposed to a mixture of quiet and loud pieces. Given how loud their instruments are, drummers are particularly at risk, but using era plugs can go some way to reducing potential hearing loss. For rock and pop musicians, using in-ear monitors has the potential to reduce noise exposure.
Improved technology means the number of musicians having to give up performing could decrease, But student musicians need to be educated about the dangers of noise-caused hearing loss. The increasing use of headphones will also work against this. Unless people are careful with the volume level on their portable music players, hearing loss caused by music will increase.
1. What does the author mainly want to show by mentioning Brian Johnson?| A．Hearing loss are very common nowadays. |
| B．Music and hearing loss are closely related. |
| C．Being with music isn’t always beneficial. |
| D．Deafness has become musicians’ major concern. |
| A．The rhythm of music. |
| B．The average exposure of time. |
| C．The playing environment of music. |
| D．The listener’s sensitivity to sound. |
| A．How the sound in a concert is balanced. |
| B．How professional orchestras schedule music. |
| C．How musicians can decrease their risk of hearing loss. |
| D．How different musicians work together in an orchestra. |
| A．Improved technology can prevent hearing damage. |
| B．Student musicians are main sufferers of hearing loss. |
| C．Using headphones helps reduce hearing loss to a degree. |
| D．We can never be too careful with the volume level of music. |
【推荐2】You know you really want to get good grades. Your parents have put the pressure on, or you promised yourself you would do better.
Ignore specific distractions as you notice them. For example, you’re trying to study in the library and you keep getting distracted by someone texting. Take note of this specific distraction then tell yourself you are going to overcome it.
Work with your energy levels.
Take a brief study break once in a while. It might seem against common belief, but stepping away from your studies now and then can actually be more beneficial than trying to work through everything without stopping. About once an hour, get up and take a short break of about 5 minutes.
| A．But you keep getting distracted! |
| B．Give in to unavoidable distractions. |
| C．Use distractions as a reward to motivate yourself. |
| D．The next time you see it happen, will yourself not to look. |
| E．It’s natural to want to put off the most difficult or unpleasant tasks. |
| F．This makes studying seem less stressful, helping you to stay on task. |
| G．This helps refresh you so that you can stay focused when you come back to studying. |
When Veronika Scott was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Michigan, she received a task to “design to fill a need.”She dreamed up an idea for overcoats that would double as sleeping bags, made 25 of them, and handed them out to people living in shelters on an abandoned city playground. While her efforts were greeted mostly with enthusiasm from those braving Detroit's cold winters, one woman voiced dissatisfaction. “We don't need coats; we need jobs.” she told Veronika. Then she had her second inspiration.
After graduating from college in 2012, Veronika founded the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization. She hired two homeless women to sew the coats and paid them with donations she received through her blog. Now, the Empowerment Plan employs about 20 people and has produced more than 10,000 coats and distributed them in 30 states, Canada, and elsewhere abroad.
“We don't require previous employment,” Veronika says. “We’re looking for people who are motivated." The Empowerment Plan provides free classes and lends money to those who qualify. Nearly all the employees eventually move into permanent housing, and some get jobs in the auto industry and construction.
Veronika has bettered the coat's design by making its outer layer of a lightweight material that resists air, wind, and water and its inner layer of a material that stores body heat. Still, Veronika is less focused on the coats than on the workers who make them. “At the end of the day,” she says, “the coat is a vehicle for us to employ people.”
1. What did Veronika Scott do to finish her task from her studies? (no more than 15 words)2. Where did Veronika Scott get her second inspiration?(no more than 10 words)
3. What is Veronika’s purpose of founding Empowerment Plan? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined word mean in the Paragraph?(no more than 1 words)
5. What do you think of Veronika? Why? (no more than 20 words)
