A （An) ____B/L refers to one that is made out to a designated consignee.

One can properly infer from this article that "Latin grammar school" refers to______.

A．the Boston Free Latin School

B．all elementary schools in the United States

C．schools which taught Latin exclusive of all other subjects

D．a number of grammar schools which developed in New England

That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully： There’s never any time to read.

What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times” But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning-or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication…It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption”. Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.

In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading-useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes）as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”. No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.

So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time”. You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.

The usual time-management techniques don’t work because?

A.what they can offer does not ease the modern mind

B.what challenging books demand is repetitive reading

C.what people often forget is carrying a book with them

D.what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed

“Carry a book with you at all times” can work if?A.reading becomes your primary business of the day

B.all the daily business has been promptly dealt with

C.you are able to drop back to business after reading

D.time can be evenly split for reading and business

The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to?A.update their to-do lists

B.make passing time fulfilling

C.carry their plans through

D.pursue carefree reading

The best title for this text could be?A.How to Enjoy Easy Reading

B.How to Find Time to Read

C.How to Set Reading Goals

D.How to Read Extensively

Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps?A.encourage the efficiency mind-set

B.develop online reading habits

C.promote ritualistic reading

D.achieve immersive reading

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

The "ancient notion" (line 14) to which the author refers to is the idea that

A．infinite space, by definition, can exist but cannot be observed from an external reference point

B．in order for there to be an outside to the universe, the ultimate physical reality must be a Euclidean planar space

C．one cannot observe the edge of any object, including the universe, except by using a perspective external to it

D．the universe can always be redefined to include what is beyond an absolute reference point

E．the universe is a hypersphere which must be embedded in higher-dimensional space than that given by Euclidean geometry

The "ancient notion" (line 14) to which the author refers to is the idea that

A．infinite space, by definition, can exist but cannot be observed from an external reference point

B．in order for there to be an outside to the universe, the ultimate physical reality must be a Euclidean planar space

C．one cannot observe the edge of any object, including the universe, except by using a perspective external to it

D．the universe can always be redefined to include what is beyond an absolute reference point

E．the universe is a hypersphere which must be embedded in higher-dimensional space than that given by Euclidean geometry

The phrase "that injury" underlined in Paragraph 5 refers to______.

A．his bad back

B．the doctor's weightlifting

C．his clinically inappropriate practice

D．his dishonest cheating

The author refers to the increase in animal bones in the fourth paragraph primarily in order to

A．demonstrate the increase of the availability of grazing mammals during the desiccation of the African landscape

B．suggest a reason why robust proto-humans eventually failed in the competition with Homo for animal prey

C．provide proof that environmental changes did indeed occur around a time of rapid evolution for Homo

D．explain the means by which Homo was able to make use of the appearance of the antelope and gazelle

E．offer evidence that with the desiccation of the African landscape, Homo's diet changed from that of the australopithecine

The growing gender gap mentioned in Paragraph 6 refers to the finding that______.

A．fewer girls want to engage in STEM careers than boys

B．more girls hope to take up STEM careers than boys

C．there are far more male students than female ones

D．boys are more likely to get STEM-related jobs

Drug Abuse

1 The term "drug abuse" most often refers to the use of a drug with such frequency that it causes physical or mental harm to the user or impairs social functioning. Although the term seems to imply that users abuse the drugs they take, in fact, it is themselves or others they abuse by using drugs.

2 Pharmacologists, who study the effects of drugs, classify psychoactive drugs according to what they do to those who take them. Drugs that speed up signals passing through the nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord, and produce alertness and arousal and, in higher doses, excitability, and inhibit fatigue and sleep, are called stimulants. Drugs that retard, slow down, or depress signals passing through the central nervous system and produce relaxation, a lowering of anxiety, and, at higher doses, drowsiness and sleep, are called depressants. One distinct kind of depressants are those which dull the mind's perception of pain and in medicine are used as painkillers, or analgesics. These drugs called narcotics.

3 It is not always easy to determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuse. Thus it is far easier to study who uses illegal psychoactive drugs than it is to study who abuses them. When re searchers describe patterns of drug abuse, then, they usually describe the more general phenomenon of drug use, whether it leads to abuse or not.

4 Drinking on the job is a social and economic problem with a long history. With the growing popularity of illegal drugs in the 1960s and 1970s, it was to be expected that their use in the workplace would emerge as a major issue by the 1980s. Estimates of employee drug use vary greatly, ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the job. The safe performance of some occupations among them is done by airline pilots in air traffic.

5 From the 1920s until the 1960s, treatment of drug abuse in the United States was practically nonexistent. During this period many officials did not believe that treatment was effective or necessary. Drug abusers and sellers were simply arrested and imprisoned, thereby discouraging use. The dramatic explosion in the use and abuse of a wide range of different drugs during the 1960s demonstrated the weakness of this theory. As a result, two treatment programs were developed during the 1960s.

A. Patterns of drug abuse

B. Treatment

C. Drug testing in the workplace

D. Classification of psychoactive drugs

E. Definition of drug abuse

Paragraph 1 ______.

"Shadow land" in the sentence refers to ______.

A．the wonderland one often dreams about

B．the bright future that one is looking forward to

C．the state of uncertainty before one's final goal is reached

D．a word that exists only in one's imagination