摘要： 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Many parents have the experience of watching their children put off important s
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.
___16___ 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. ___17___ 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. ___18___.
Procrastination puts children in the bad situation of having something to do and not enough time to do it. ___19___ In the end, this can cause children to feel disappointed (失望的) in themselves.
___20___
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
【答案】16. A 17. E 18. F 19. D 20. B
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