六级听力室:2008年12月真题短文2
来源：沪江听写酷
2011-08-25 22:05
梗概：在每天有很多工作要做的情况下，a to-do list 真的有用吗？
欢迎来到六级听力室，通过我们精心挑选的真题听力，大家一起复习六级重要词汇。
真题都是经过六级出题专家精心研究的，大家一定要每一句都听明白喔~~
我们相信，坚持听，一定会进步！让勤奋感动自己！
(每周二、四、六、七更新，听写完后点击译文，有更多收获喔)
听写填空，不写序号和标点，仅听写出单词或句子，答案用空格隔开。
(1) . All of which apparently must be tackled right away. You spend a day putting out files, but by the end of the day, you haven’t accomplished any of the really important things you set out to do. (2) , you draft a “to-do” list, but most days, you can make little progress with it. When you look at the list each morning, a big fat cloud of doom is right at the top. Those difficult, complex, important tasks, that are so (3) to get done, and so easy to avoid. Plenty of us create a “to-do” list to address feelings of being overwhelmed, (4) . They wind out being guilt-provoking reminders of the fact that will over-committed and losing (5) . According to Timothy Pikle, a professor of psychology at Carlton University in Ottawa, people often draw up a “to-do” list, and then that’s it. The list itself becomes the day’s achievement, allowing us to feel we’ve done something useful without taking on any real work. (6) . Too often, the list is seen as the accomplishment for the day, reducing the immediate guilt of not working on the tasks at hand by investing energy in the list, says Pikle. When a list is used like this, (7) .
<友情提示> 若页面过长造成听写不便，在听写框的右上角点击“弹出答题纸”即可。
点我回顾上一期【六级听力室】2008年12月真题短文1
欢迎来到六级听力室，通过我们精心挑选的真题听力，大家一起复习六级重要词汇。
真题都是经过六级出题专家精心研究的，大家一定要每一句都听明白喔~~
我们相信，坚持听，一定会进步！让勤奋感动自己！
(每周二、四、六、七更新，听写完后点击译文，有更多收获喔)
听写填空，不写序号和标点，仅听写出单词或句子，答案用空格隔开。
(1) . All of which apparently must be tackled right away. You spend a day putting out files, but by the end of the day, you haven’t accomplished any of the really important things you set out to do. (2) , you draft a “to-do” list, but most days, you can make little progress with it. When you look at the list each morning, a big fat cloud of doom is right at the top. Those difficult, complex, important tasks, that are so (3) to get done, and so easy to avoid. Plenty of us create a “to-do” list to address feelings of being overwhelmed, (4) . They wind out being guilt-provoking reminders of the fact that will over-committed and losing (5) . According to Timothy Pikle, a professor of psychology at Carlton University in Ottawa, people often draw up a “to-do” list, and then that’s it. The list itself becomes the day’s achievement, allowing us to feel we’ve done something useful without taking on any real work. (6) . Too often, the list is seen as the accomplishment for the day, reducing the immediate guilt of not working on the tasks at hand by investing energy in the list, says Pikle. When a list is used like this, (7) .
<友情提示> 若页面过长造成听写不便，在听写框的右上角点击“弹出答题纸”即可。
点我回顾上一期【六级听力室】2008年12月真题短文1
Many days seem to bring numerous tasks and responsibilities
In desperation
crucial
but we rarely use these tools to their best effect
control of our priorities
In fact, drawing up the list becomes a way of avoiding the work itself
it's simply another way in which we lie to ourselves