2 . In this fast-paced society multitasking(多重任务处理) is often a way of life. However, I’ll be discussing all the times we multitask when it’s not necessary．

The problem with multitasking is that we’re dividing up our _________. We only have a certain amount of attention that we can _________ to a given task. If we’re doing four things at the same time, we can _________ devote 25% of our attention to each thing. It’s impossible to do a job as _________ with 25% of your attention as you can with 100% of your attention. You will simply perform better focusing on something 100%.

Divided attention leads to more _________ and a lower quality of performance. This isn’t difficult to understand, _________ society has masked this fact and _________ it with the facade(表象) that multitasking is good. But good is not our best, and doing less than your best is not contributing to a _________ or fulfilling(充实的) life.

There’s no place where this is more obvious than when _________ someone, especially friends and family. We’ve all been trying to have a conversation with someone when their attention is diverted (转移) by something else. Is it __________? Do you feel important? Loved? Heard? Of course not. Generally, children are exposed to this more than anyone. Adults are so __________ doing other things while they’re with their children that their attention is diverted again and again.

To be a good parent, friend, worker, boss, etc., we need to __________ to put our focus on what we’re doing and who we’re doing it with. Take a moment to __________ your attention from what you were doing __________ and focus on what you’re doing now. These five or ten seconds spent focusing your attention __________ on what you’re doing can make a difference!

As much as possible, give all your focus to whatever you’re doing and see how much better you work and how the interactions (交流) with the people in your life improve．

3 . Many nursing homes all over the world are locked down to protect their residents from the COVID﹣19. Group﹣f is a________ company in Belgium, whose employees wash the outsides of tall buildings, using platforms that are lifted by cranes (起重机). When the COVID﹣19 hit Belgium, Group﹣f's________ slowed down. The cranes sat________. But one day, company manager Bosch saw a man standing on the________ and shouting up to his mother who was looking down________ from her window on the third floor of a nursing home. This gave Bosch a perfect________.

Bosch realized he could put the cranes to good use. Ever since, he has been________ them to nursing homes. There, a family can________ a platform that a crane operator will lift up to the window of a loved one.

Eve Putseys came to see her 88﹣year﹣old aunt, who lives in La Cambre, a nursing home. Before she________ the platform, Putseys didn't know what to expect. “It’s been seven long weeks that I haven’t been________ to see her, ” she said. But when Putseys returned to the ground, she was________ “I finally got to see her. She looked very happy to see me, ” she said.

Officials at La Cambre helped organize the crane﹣operated________. “It’s been hard work but quite________, ” director Thibaut Chevrier says. Bosch________ that operating the machines costs his company money. But he has no________. “It’s a great honor to help people, ”he says.