How to Focus
Improving your focus can make you a better student or employee as well as a happier and more organized person. If you want to improve your focus, you need to learn to avoid distractions and to be prepared with a focus-filled game plan before you set out to accomplish a task.
1. Build up your focus stamina (耐力). Each person may start off with a certain amount of “focus stamina” but this is something that can be improved over time. To build your focus stamina, just give yourself a certain amount of time to do nothing but work on a certain task.
2. Meditate(沉思). Meditating is more than a great way to relax.
3. Read more.
4. Multi-task less.
| A．Reading is a great way to build up your focus. |
| B．If you want to know how to focus like a laser, just follow these steps! |
| C．Keep going until you feel you need to stop, and try to focus for longer the next day. |
| D．When that time passes, see how long you can keep going before actually stopping. |
| E．Many people think getting two or three things done at once is a great way to accomplish goals more quickly. |
| F．Did you waste your whole day reading random articles that people posted on Facebook? |
| G．If you meditate for just 10 to 20 minutes every day, you will slowly improve your focus. |
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【推荐1】How to be more productive
Getting things done isn’t working all day at 100 miles an hour.
Smaller tasks like answering emails are “shallow work”. Try to be more conscious of what your shallow tasks are, and give yourself permission to block them out for a while so you can focus on the important tasks that require “deep work”.
Call it a day
For good productivity, be strict about when your working day is over, and when you get to the end of your planned work session, ease yourself into a more relaxed state. Look through your unfinished work.
Find your top level goal
Make your breaks smarter
Time-management master Francesco Cirillo says that for every 25 minutes of intense concentration, you should take five off to do nothing at all, which gives the brain time to recover and keeps your productivity high.
| A．Shut out the shallow |
| B．Make out the shallow |
| C．Find some pictures of kittens and puppies first |
| D．Organise your priorities by making a pyramid of goals |
| E．In the five-minute breaks, don’t jump on your phone |
| F．Write a short plan of how you’ll tackle it tomorrow |
| G．Looking for ways to do less and get more done actually makes more sense |
【推荐2】This dictionary tells you about English words and how to use them in reading, writing and speaking English. It not only gives the meaning of words, it can also help you with spelling, word building, grammar and pronunciation.
To use your dictionary correctly, you will find two spellings for this word. “Colour” is used in British English, while “color” is used in American English. When there are differences between British and American spelling, the dictionary shows it with the word “BrE” for British English and “AmE” for American English.
The dictionary also helps you pronounce words correctly. If you turn to the inside back face, you will see all the phonetic letters (音标) with some words to show you how they are pronounced. Just look at the inside back cover when you're not sure how to say a word.
The most important reason for using a dictionary is to find out the meaning of a word—its definition. In this dictionary, the definitions have been written using only 2,000 words. This means that the definitions of even the most difficult words are simple and easy to understand.
1. The AmE spelling of the Chinese word “颜色” in this dictionary is ________.| A．colour | B．colar |
| C．color | D．corner |
| A．understand | B．write |
| C．say | D．know |
| A．词性 | B．词条 |
| C．词义 | D．词库 |
When you think of documentaries, you may think of them as long, boring programs. But documentaries can be wonderful and bring stories from the real world into our homes. With fascinating footage (影片片段) and stories, documentaries encourage us to think about interesting issues we wouldn’t necessarily know about.
So, what makes a good documentary, and what should we pay attention to when we watch one? Here, we offer a few easy strategies to help you get the most out of watching documentaries.
Pay attention to the themes
While watching a documentary, keep your eyes and ears peeled for the themes people talk about and what ideas they focus on. Is it meant to be informative or raise a certain emotional response?
Think critically
Listen to what the people in the documentary are saying and ask yourself the following questions If you were debating with someone or introducing a new concept, would you say the things the people in the documentary are saying? Do the arguments make sense?
Check the sources
If you’re sitting at the computer and can’t think of anything to do, why not look up the points the documentary made and see if they are accurate? You could even read more about what is presented in the documentary.
Who are the creators?
The creators or financial backers of a film will usually be involved with how the subject matter is presented. For instance, as the documentary 2016 Obama’s America was directed in large part by a conservative writer, it’s not surprising that it’s critical of President Obama from the beginning.
1. Which of the following is the most proper to describe documentaries?
| A．non-fictional | B．controversial |
| C．subjective | D．thoughtful |
| A．inform us of factors of good documentaries. |
| B．help us enjoy documentaries better. |
| C．introduce ways of making documentaries. |
| D．help us figure out themes of documentaries. |
| A．Because the author dislikes Obama. |
| B．Because it is directed by a writer. |
| C．Because it is quite popular in China. |
| D．Because it is a persuasive example. |
| A．it is always difficult to get the themes of documentaries. |
| B．financial backers often appear in documentaries. |
| C．it’s better to think twice about what is in documentaries. |
| D．many points of documentaries are not accurate. |
