Four Apps to Boost Your Productivity
When working or studying, you can only focus for so long before your mind starts to wander. The Pomodoro Technique(番茄工作法) helps you avoid this issue by breaking your day up into 25`minute focus sessions followed by fiveminute breaks. Here's a quick dive into the Pomodoro Technique, followed by 4 of the best Pomodoro timer apps to help you get started.
Focus Booster (Web, Windows, macOS，iOS, Android)
● It lets you adjust the lengths of your focus and break sessions.
● Your data syncs across Focus Booster's web, mobile, and desktop apps.
PomoDoneApp (Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
● It lets you filter your data with powerful reporting options.
● With its Chrome extension, you can blacklist certain websites during your focus period.
Tomatoes (Web)
If you're struggling to stick with the technique and need some additional motivation, Tomatoes offers a solution: motivation via competition.
Get your coworkers involved, and compete against each other. It might even lead to useful data if one person in particular who works from home wins frequently.
Timerdoro (Web)
Sometimes, you need timers for more than just pomodoros. In that case, Timerdoro has a solution.
● It lets you create as many timers as you want to go off throughout the day.
● It reminds yourself to do multiple things throughout the workday.
1.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. Focus Booster helps users switch from focus to break sessions regularly
B. PomoDoneApp is ideal for motivating users to complete multitasks
C. Tomatoes offers assistance to those who prefer to compete with others
D. Timerdoro creates as many timers as possible to blacklist some websites
2.Which of the following timer apps can show the advantage of coworkers competing with each other?
A. Focus Booster. B. PomoDoneApp. C. Tomatoes. D. Timerdoro.
I just finished reading Rachel Held Evan's book A Year of Biblical Womanhood. There was one particular part of the book that really made me think.
She did a bit of ______ and found that the majority of the world's cocoa beans come from West Africa where there are ______ working conditions and child slavery. And the children get there by ______， and once there, they are often ______ treated. She came to an important ______， “The coffeeandchocolate experiment forced me to find an ______ fact to which I think most Americans can ______: I had absolutely no idea where the majority of my food came from.”
Well, that was going to be a(n) ______ for me. I have supplies of ______ to eat. Mike knows to stop on his way from work if I am nearing the ______. Often he buys me bags of chocolate chips. I ______ chocolate in other rooms so I don't have to ______ with my kids. And now I am finding out that the money I spend on my ______ is actually paying for something I am ______ to.
I will have to make a ______. I will have to be more ______ of where my chocolate comes from (as well as look into other foods and goods I consume). ______， I live within walking distance from a fair trade shop that has a large and delicious ______. So far, Divine Milk Chocolate made in the USA is my ______ choice.
And, maybe it costs a bit more money, and that means I have to ______. But, as it has been said, “When you know better, you do better.”
1.A. research B. explanation C. revision D. prediction
2.A. favorable B. permanent C. terrible D. impressive
3.A. boycotting B. informing C. appealing D. kidnapping
4.A. equally B. badly C. formally D. warmly
5.A. agreement B. approval C. conclusion D. definition
6.A. unsuitable B. unforgettable C. unchangeable D. uncomfortable
7.A. relate B. contribute C. report D. reply
8.A. notice B. problem C. failure D. threat
9.A. chocolate B. milk C. bread D. fish
10.A. day B. shop C. end D. job
11.A. pick B. check C. make D. sneak
12.A. quarrel B. deal C. share D. reason
13.A. addiction B. recreation C. admiration D. collection
14.A. accustomed B. opposed C. devoted D. engaged
15.A. mess B. mistake C. change D. schedule
16.A. ashamed B. informed C. capable D. conscious
17.A. Luckily B. Actually C. Previously D. Certainly
18.A. element B. selection C. production D. adventure
19.A. former B. last C. first D. late
20.A. turn up B. pay off C. pay back D. cut back
— He spent little money in repairing the roof. Now the rain has ruined half his furniture.
— ________. This is a plain example.
A. A penny saved is a penny gained B. Many a little makes a mickle
C. Penny wise and pound foolish D. From saving comes having
It might be early to talk about potential ________ colors for next summer when we have just entered autumn, but the fashion world can't wait that long.
A. trendy B. worthy C. hearty D. touchy
Ding Yanyuhang took part in a training session ________ the NBA China game in Shenzhen.
A. in accordance with B. in preparation for
C. in preference to D. in association with
Stephen Hawking's crowning achievement was his prediction in the 1970s ________ black holes can emit energy, despite the classical view that nothing can escape their gravity.
A. when B. what C. how D. that
