問題詳情

III. Reading Comprehension. 30 points【單選題】每題 2 分，共 15 題，答錯 1 題倒扣 0.5 分，倒扣至本大題零分為止，未作答，不給分亦不扣分。Please read the following three excerpts/passages closely and then choose the best answer for each of the questionsaccording to the contents.To some there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mysteryto psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this way. A team of researchers led by Sean McCreaof the University of Konstanz, in Germany, reckon they have found a piece of the puzzle. People act in a timely way whengiven concrete tasks but dawdle when they view them in abstract terms.As the team report in Psychological Science, those who were presented with concrete tasks and information respondedmore promptly than those who were asked to think in an abstract way. Moreover, almost all the students who had beenprompted to think in concrete terms completed their tasks by the deadline while up to 56% of students asked to think in abstractterms failed to respond at all.Theories abound for why people procrastinate. Some psychologists think that those who delay completing tasks do sobecause they have low confidence that they will succeed in that task. Perhaps procrastinators are perfectionists or they may justbe depressed. Others believe they are impulsive and lack self-control. Earlier research has shown that people defer tasks that areunappealing, difficult or expensive, which is no great surprise.
41. In the first paragraph, the word “procrastination” means ______.
(A) discrepancy
(B) affiliation
(C) carelessness
(D) dilatoriness
(E) paralysis

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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