上海市部分区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末（一模）英语汇编：六选四

上海市部分区 2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题分类汇编 六选四 2024届上海市虹口区高三上学期一模英语试卷 Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. Focus on the one thing you are doing. B. Habits like these which encourage you to multitask make you mentally exhausted and unproductive. C Make sure that you also take breaks in your monotasking, because that' s what helps your brain to stay focused. D. So it' s a win-win for everyone! E The little information we do take in when we' re multitasking is more difficult to remember at a later stage. F. You feel so good that you believe you' re being effective and further encourages your multitasking habit. Why Do You Find It So Hard to Not Multitask? Most of us do multitasking almost daily. But it' s time to change that. Your attention is already being pulled in millions of directions daily, so you really don' t need to add multitasking to the list. Let' s take the smartphone for example. On average you check your phone 110 times a day—that means you' re spending 23 days every year glued to your smartphone!How productive do you think that makes you? 67__________ But it' s hard to let go of these habits because you've conditioned your brain to send misleading signals to your body. Research has shown that when you multitask “successfully”, you activate the reward mechanism in your brain that releases dopamine, the happy hormone. 68 __________. This rush can also make you overly optimistic, which means you are less careful about the work you do and more likely to make mistakes. Multitaskers basically get addicted to this rush which leads them to believe they are being effective when in fact they' re not. You can find healthier, more balanced dopamine releases through ticking things on your to-do list through mono-, or single-tasking too. Since our brains can only effectively focus on one thing at a