1 . One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students. He used an illustration to express his point.
With his beginning words, “time for a quiz”, he pulled out a wide-mouthed jar and set it on the table. Then he carefully placed about a dozen fist-sized rocks into the jar until it was filled to the top, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said, “Yes!” “Really?” He then reached under the table, pulled out a bucket of gravel (石子), put some in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work down into the spaces between the big rocks. Then he asked again, “Is the jar full?” “Probably not,” one answered.
“Good!” He answered. Once more he reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping (倾倒) the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked, “Is this jar full?” “No!” the class shouted. “Good!” Then he grabbed a can of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the edge.
Then he asked the class, “What is the point of this illustration?” One eager student replied, “The point is, however full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”
“No,” the speaker answered, “The truth is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all. So do things you love; schedule for yourself; make clear what are the big rocks in your life. Then, put those in your jar first.”
1. What does the underlined word in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Strategy. | B．Example. | C．Registration. | D．Impression. |
| A．He enjoyed giving students a quiz. | B．He might teach in a normal school. |
| C．He was used to making experiments. | D．He was especially good at managing time. |
| A．To show his idea. | B．To offer a solution. |
| C．To contain the gravel. | D．To make an experiment. |
| A．A Good Activity. | B．A Jar-Filling Design. |
| C．The Story Of Big Rocks. | D．The Lesson For Source Arrangement. |
