Part 1 Multiple-choice cloze
Multiple choice · Test 1
8 вопросовЗадание в формате Reading and Use of English, Part 1: текст с 8 пропусками, к каждому четыре варианта. Проверяются коллокации, фразовые глаголы, связки и тонкие различия в значениях.
The art of doing nothing
In a culture that 0sets great store by productivity, idleness is often regarded as a vice. Yet a growing body of research suggests that periods of apparent inactivity may be anything 1 wasted.
When the mind is allowed to wander, it does not simply switch off; on the 2, it becomes remarkably busy, forging connections between ideas that would otherwise have 3 unnoticed. This may explain why so many breakthroughs are said to have 4 to their discoverers in the bath or on a country walk. Archimedes is the most celebrated example, but the 5 of such stories is long.
None of this is to say that we should 6 a blind eye to deadlines. But it may be worth resisting the urge to fill every waking 7 with activity. Doing nothing, it turns out, may be one of the most productive things we can do — 8 counterintuitive that may sound.
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