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四、閱讀測驗(請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案)Since 1979, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) has been popular. There are nearly 1,000 certifiedMBSR instructors teaching mindfulness techniques (including meditation) in more than 30 countries.Technology has made it easier than ever to fracture attention into smaller and smaller bits. We answer acolleague’s questions from the stands at a child’s soccer game; we pay the bills while watching TV; we ordergroceries while stuck in traffic. In a time when no one seems to have enough time, our devices allow us to bemany places at once—but at the cost of being unable to fully inhabit the place where we actually want to be.Mindfulness says we can do better. At one level, the techniques associated with the philosophy are intended tohelp practitioners quiet a busy mind, becoming more aware of the present moment and less caught up in whathappened earlier or what’s to come. Many cognitive therapists commend it to patients as a way to help cope withanxiety and depression. More broadly, it’s seen as a means to deal with stress.But to view mindfulness simply as the latest self-help fad underplays its potency and misses the point of why itis gaining acceptance with those who might otherwise dismiss mental training techniques closely tied tomeditation—Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 titans, Pentagon chiefs and more. If distraction is thepre-eminent condition of our age, then mindfulness, in the eyes of its enthusiasts, is the most logical response. Itsstrength lies in its universality. Though meditation is considered an essential means to achieving mindfulness, theultimate goal is simply to give your attention fully to what you’re doing.There’s evidence they’re correct. Researchers have found that multitasking leads to lower overallproductivity. Students and workers who constantly and rapidly switch between tasks have less ability to filter outirrelevant information, and they make more mistakes. And many corporate workers today find it impossible totake breaks. According to a recent survey, more than half of employed American adults check work messages on theweekends and 4 in 10 do so while on vacation. Now, Silicon Valley has become a hotbed of mindfulness classes andconferences. For example, through the course Search Inside Yourself, thousands of Googlers have learnedattention-focusing techniques, including meditation, meant to help them free up mental space for creativity and bigthinking.
46. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Mindfulness does better than medicine for good health.
(B) Mindfulness has been popular recently because modern people have been too distracted and stressed.
(C) Achieving mindfulness is impossible in the modern world.
(D) Wealthy people need mindfulness more than the poor to deal with stress from their work.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.77907
統計：A(8),B(67),C(3),D(5),E(0)

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