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阅读原文

IF YOU wantsomething done, the saying goes, give it to a busy person. It is

an odd way toguarantee hitting deadlines. But a paper recentlypublished in the

Journal of Consumer Research suggestsit may, in fact, be true—as long as the

busy person conceptualises the deadlinein the right way.

Yanping Tu ofthe University of Chicago and Dilip Soman of the University of

Toronto examinedhow individuals go about both thinking about and completing

tasks. Previousstudies have shown that such activity progresses through four

distinct phases:pre-decision, post-decision (but pre-action), action and review.

It is thoughtthat what motivates the shift from the decision-making stages to

thedoing-something stage is a change in mindset.

Human beings area deliberative sort, weighing the pros and cons of future

actions and remainingopen to other ideas and influences. However, once a

decision is taken, the mindbecomes more "implemental" and focuses on the task at

hand. “Themindset towards ‘where can I get a sandwich’,” explains Ms Tu, “is

moreimplemental than the mindset towards ‘should I get a sandwich or not?’"

Ms Tu and DrSoman advise in their paper that "the key step in getting things

done isto get started." But what drives that? They believe the key that

unlocksthe implemental mode lies in how people categorise time. They suggest

thattasks are more likely to be viewed with an implemental mindset if an imposed

deadlineis cognitively linked to "now"—a so-called like-the-presentscenario.

That might be a future date within the same month or calendar year,or pegged to

an event with a familiar spot in the mind's timeline (being givena task at

Christmas, say, with a deadline of Easter). Conversely, they suggest,a deadline

placed outside such mental constructs (being"unlike-the-present") exists merely

as a circle on a calendar, and assuch is more likely to be considered

deliberatively and then ignored until thelast minute.

To flesh outthis idea, the pair carried out five sets of tests, with

volunteers rangingfrom farmers in India to undergraduate students in Toronto. In

one test,the farmers were offered a financial incentive to open a bank account

and makea deposit within six months. The researchers predicted those approached

in Junewould consider a deadline before December 31st as like-the-present.

Thoseapproached in July, by contrast, received a deadline into the next year,

andwere expected to think of their deadline as unlike-the-present. The

distinctionworked. Those with a deadline in the same year were nearly four times

morelikely to open the account immediately as those for whom the deadline lay

inthe following year. Arbitrary though calendars may be in dividing uptime's

continuous flow, they influence the way humans think about time.

The effect canmanifest itself in even subtler ways. In another set of

experiments,undergraduate students were given a calendar on a Wednesday and were

asked tosuggest an appropriate day to carry out certain tasks before the

followingSunday. The trick was that some were given a calendar with all of the

weekdayscoloured purple, with weekends in beige (making a visual distinction

between aWednesday and the following Sunday). Others were given a calendar in

whichevery other week, Monday to Sunday, was a solid colour (meaning that

aWednesday and the following Sunday were thus in the same week, and in the

samecolour). Even this minor visual cue affected how like- or

unlike-the-presentthe respondents tended to view task priorities.

These and otherbits of framing and trickery in the research support the same

thesis: thatmaking people link a future event to today triggers an implemental

response,regardless of how far in the future the deadline actually lies. If the

journeyof 1,000 miles starts with a single step, the authors might suggest that

youtake that step before this time next week.

文章概述

文章讨论了人们对于工作截止日期的思维意识，先给出了人们做事情的四个阶段，而通常人们开始工作并意识到截止日期必须是要将任务与现在联系起来的时候，随后利用到某大学研究团队的实验进一步阐释，第一个实验研究发现同年存款为截止日期比下一年存款为截止日期更容易使人们开始开户的行为，同样第二个实验验证当截止日期和工作时间有类似特征的时候不容易唤醒大家开始工作的意识。随后文章给了一个关于deadline的实验对比图表。

考试题目

1.文章主旨题

2.信息题，问在开始工作前人们最关注concern什么

3.循证题，对应前一题

4.词汇题，问drive的意思

5.信息题，问任务也很有可能被和当下联系起来即便在遥远的将来

6.循证题，对应前一题

7.推断题，作者提及日期的arbitrary是为了暗示什么

8.目的题，最后一段的作用是什么

9.图表题，问哪一个值接近人们对于deadline的平均速率

10.图表题，问图表与文章第一个存款实验的区别

以上是易伯华为宝宝们整理出来的最新SAT阅读考试真题第一篇，稍后献上3月10日考试其它阅读真题，敬请期待哦。易伯华祝备考SAT的宝宝们取得理想成绩!易伯华会一直陪在宝宝们身边，加油~