2021银行校园招聘每日一练10.23(一)
As a startup founder, my daily tasks include everything from long-term strategic planning to approving team outings and company culture initiatives. Day after day, things inevitably come up that need to get handled ASAP. But I’ve also learned that if you don’t have a strategy for making time for those bigger ambitions and your truly lofty goals, they’ll simply never get done. And that means you won’t make the progress that’s really going to move your business forward.
1. FIND YOUR MOST PRODUCTIVE TIME
Face it. You aren’t cranking out work at absolute peak productivity for the entire day. Instead, there are likely certain times when you’re at your most focused and other times when your energy wanes. That’s normal. Maybe for you, it’s bright and early in the morning, before anyone else arrives in the office, when you do your best work. Whenever it is, identify that when you you’re your most productive, and then reserve it on your calendar like you would any other important meeting. You need to protect this block of time from intrusion - it isn’t optional. That way you’re guaranteed to have a regular, designated period when you can at least get started on those bigger to-dos.
2. CREATE PHYSICAL BARRIERS
Nobody works in a vacuum. We all have to collaborate with others to some degree or another. And it’s the people we work closest with whom we tend to put first - we want to be readily available if they need our help. But there are times you need to tune out the distractions and focus if you’re going to get any meaningful work done.
One of the most effective methods I’ve found is to put physical barriers between us. I’ll work from a conference room or even from home on occasion in order to get some literal space from people needing “just, one quick thing”.
1.What is the article mainly about?
A. How to manage your time well
B. How to overcome different challenges in the office.
C. How to win competitions and get promotions.
D. How to prevent distractions and focus on big issues.
【答案】D。主旨概括题。根据首尾句(段)的原则，可以迅速判断出这篇文章核心主旨在文章的第一段。在文章的第一段，作者结合自身的经历提出了文章谈论的观点，作为初创企业的创始人，作者发现自己需要的处理的事情特别多，而在处理这么多事情的同时，作者发现自己设定的那些大目标“bigger ambitions”很快就会被忽略，“they'll simply never get done”。所以文章后面的内容都是针对这一问题提出的两个对策，即如何把精力放在处理一些大事上。A项片面，除了时间外，第二个对策create physical barrier没有概括到。B项和文段谈论的主体不符，C项的competition在原文没有体现。所以答案选D。
2.The word “wanes” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ( ).
A. increase
B. peak
C. diminish
D. disappear
【答案】C。猜词题。A选项，增长;B选项，顶峰;C选项，减少;D选项，消失。根据其所在句子“Instead, there are likely certain times when you’re at your most focused and other times when your energy wanes.”中的other times可知前后是一组反义词，前面讲能量在最高点，那后面讲的就是其他时间能量会衰退，所以选择C。
3.According to paragraph 2, which of the following the “chunk of time” the author is talking about?
A. When you are most focused.
B. When there is no distractions
C. Late at night.
D. Bright and early in the morning.
【答案】A。含义题。题干问的是“根据第二段的内容，作者谈论的‘时间段’是指什么。根据第二段大标题的提示词most productive time，可以推出作者说的这个“时间”应该是最高产的时间段，也就是注意力最集中的时间段，第二段的内容也有提到。B项过于绝对。C、D项是片面的选项。文段只是说人注意力最集中的时间有可能是在早上，也有可能是在晚上，因人而异。
4.What can be inferred from paragraph 3?
A. You have to be readily available in the office.
B. People cannot work in a vacuum.
C. People in the office love helping others.
D. Sometimes we have to decline colleagues’ requests.
【答案】D。是非题。A选项，你需要在办公室保持时刻的空闲可用;B选项，人们不能在真空中工作;C选项，办公室里的同事之间相互爱戴;D选项，有时候我们不得不拒绝同事的请求。通过第三段最后可知，D选项正确，能够从其中推断出来。
5.What may the author discuss later?
A. The author may talk about the administration system.
B. The author may teach the readers to make a timetable.
C. The author may put forward another suggestion.
D. The author may discuss the office environments.
【答案】C。上下文推断题。问文章接下来会讨论什么。A选项，管理系统;B选项，教作者如何去做时间表;C选项，提出其他的建议;D选项，探讨办公环境。第二段介绍了第一个建议，第三段介绍了第二个建议，可以推知，下一段会继续介绍第三个建议。因此C选项正确。
