Part 2 Open cloze
Open cloze · Test 3
8 вопросовЗадание в формате Reading and Use of English, Part 2: текст с 8 пропусками, в каждый нужно вписать одно слово. Вариантов нет — проверяются предлоги, союзы, местоимения и устойчивые выражения.
Why we procrastinate
Almost everyone puts things (0) off from time to time. For some people, however, procrastination becomes (1) serious that it affects their work and their health. Contrary (2) popular belief, it has little to do with laziness.
Researchers now see it (3) a problem of managing emotions rather than time: we delay tasks that make us feel anxious or bored, hoping (4) feel better later. The irony is that putting things off only makes matters worse, (5) the task still has to be done and there is now less time to do it.
One effective strategy is to break a task down into steps so small that it would be absurd not to do them. (6) you have started, it is usually easier to keep going. (7) other words, the hardest part is often simply getting started — (8) the task may be.