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Read the passage below and choose a correct answer [a,b,c or d]
A.Eisner's practice is informed by a movement known as positive psychology, a school of thought that argues "positive" experiences - feeling engaged, challenged, and that one is making a contribution to something meaningful - do not balance out negative ones such as stress; instead, they help people increase their resilience over time. Good stress, or positive experiences of being challenged and rewarded, is thus cumulative in the same way as bad stress. Elsner says many of the senior business people she coaches are relying more on regulating bad stress through methods such as meditation and yoga. She points to research showing that meditation can alter the biochemistry of the brain and actually help people "retrain" the way their brains and bodies react to stress. "Meditation and yoga enable you to shift the way that your brain reacts, so if you get proficient at it you're in control."
B. The Australian vice-president of AT Kearney. Neil Plumridge, says: "Often stress is caused by our setting unrealistic expectations of ourselves. I'll promise a client I'll do something tomorrow, and then promise another client the same thing. when I really know it's not going to happen. I've put stress on myself when I could have said to the clients: 'Why don't I give that to you in 48 hours? The client doesn't care." Over-committing is something people experience as an individual problem. We explain it as the result of procrastination or Parkinson's law: that work expands to fill the time available. New research indicates that people may be hard-wired to do it.
C. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology shows that people always believe they will be less busy in the future than now. This is a misapprehension,according to the authors of the report, Professor Gal Zauberman, of the University of North Carolina, and Professor John Lynch, of Duke University. "On average. an individual will be just as busy two weeks or a month from now as he or she is today. But that is not how it appears to be in everyday life." they wrote. "People often make commitments long in advance that they would never make if the same commitments required immediate action. That is, they discount future time investments relatively steeply." Why do we perceive a greater "surplus" of time in the future than in the present? The researchers suggest that people underestimate completion times for tasks stretching into the future, and that they are bad at imagining future competition for their time.
1) What is the best title of the passage?
A. How to deal with stress
B. Stress of workplace
C. Different types of stress
D. The causes of stress
2) According to paragraph 1. what is true about good stress?
A. It can make up for negative stress.
B. It is completely different from negative stress.
C. People only experience it when they are given something in exchange for good behaviour or good work.
D. It can increase gradually overtime.
3) Why is meditation mentioned in the first paragraph?
A. To compare the effects of meditation and yoga on negative stress
B. To introduce a way to reduce stress levels
C. To explain how meditation affects our brain
D. To emphasize the popularity of meditation
4) Why does Neil Plumridge mention his meetings with his clients?
A. To prove that we tend to expect more than we can do
B. To prove that he should give his clients more time
C. To prove that people tend to procrastinate
D. To prove that he cannot meet two clients in a day
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