Question

    Many parents have the experience of watching their children put off important schoolwork or studying until it is a stressful situation. In fact, procrastination (拖延症) isn’t just unpleasant.

1. Here is some bad influence of procrastination:

Everything takes longer than it needs to.

The most obvious problem with procrastination is that it wastes time. 2. Dinner that can be finished within half an hour takes one hour. Often, children who procrastinate do everything school-related at the last minute-or worse-they run out of hours in the day and waste away all their time.

Children keep themselves from being a better person.

What children don’t realize when they repeatedly procrastinate is that they are not reaching their potential (潜力). The time they waste instead of spending doing what they need to do is the time when they could improve themselves. 3..

Procrastination puts children in the bad situation of having something to do and not enough time to do it. 4. In the end, this can cause children to feel disappointed (失望的) in themselves.

5.

If a child keeps waiting until the last minute to study and do homework, how can he or she earn a good grade? In the long run, children simply cannot reach goals they set for themselves.

A.It can be very harmful.

B.It prevents children from achieving success.

C.There are many reasons why children procrastinate.

D.That will surely lead to stress for children and their parents.

E.Homework that could be done within an hour takes a whole night.

F.They could have got more knowledge or developed more interests.

G.Procrastination is a habit which is quickly formed and hard to break

Answer

1.A

2.E

3.F

4.D

5.B

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。许多父母都有过这样的经历：看着自己的孩子把重要的功课或学习推迟到压力大的时候。事实上，拖延症不仅令人不快还非常有害。文章主要说明了拖延症对孩子的一些不良的影响。

1.

根据后文Here is some bad influence of procrastination可知以下是拖延症的一些不良影响。由此可知，本句引出下文说明拖延症是有害的。故A选项“它可能非常有害”符合上下文语境，故选A。

2.

根据上文The most obvious problem with procrastination is that it wastes time.可知拖延症最明显的问题就是浪费时间。以及后文Dinner that can be finished within half an hour takes one hour.可知半小时内完成的剩余晚餐需要1小时。由此可知，本句是在举例说明拖延症会浪费时间的例子。故E选项“一个小时就能完成的家庭作业要花上一整晚的时间”符合上下文语境，故选E。

3.

根据上文What children don’t realize when they repeatedly procrastinate is that they are not reaching their potential (潜力). The time they waste instead of spending doing what they need to do is the time when they could improve themselves.可知当孩子们一再拖延时，他们没有意识到他们没有发挥自己的潜力。他们浪费的时间，不是花在他们需要做的事情上，是他们可以提高自己的时间。由此可知，本句承接上文说明孩子浪费了可以提高自己的时间，而他们本来可以用这些时间获得更多的知识或发展更多的兴趣的。故F选项“他们本可以获得更多的知识或发展更多的兴趣”符合上下文语境，故选F。

4.

根据上文Procrastination puts children in the bad situation of having something to do and not enough time to do it.可知拖延症把孩子们置于有事情做却没有足够时间去做的糟糕境地。以及后文In the end, this can cause children to feel disappointed (失望的) in themselves.可知最后，这会导致孩子们对自己感到失望。由此可知，本句是在说明拖延症给孩子带来的不良影响。故D选项“这肯定会给孩子和父母带来压力”符合上下文语境，故选D。

5.

根据本段内容If a child keeps waiting until the last minute to study and do homework, how can he or she earn a good grade? In the long run, children simply cannot reach goals they set for themselves.可知如果一个孩子总是等到最后一分钟才去学习和做作业，他或她怎么能取得好成绩呢？从长远来看，孩子们根本无法达到他们为自己设定的目标。由此可知，本段是在说明拖延症导致孩子无法完成目标，从而会阻止孩子取得成功。故B选项“它阻止孩子取得成功”符合上下文语境，故选B。