Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

Read choose the correct answer (33-36).

Making lists is relaxing. It makes you feel important - all

those things–to do. It dictates the shape of the immediate

future; it calms you down and it makes you feel good when

you cross something off. It might even help you to get things

done too. The world divides in two when it comes to listing.

Type A makes orderly lists, priorities and calmly sets to

work on them. Type В waits until panic sets in, grabs the

nearest envelope and scribbles all over it, sighs with relief

and promptly loses it. The more you have to do, the more

you need a list and few people with high-powered jobs get by

without them.

James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own time

managing matrix'. He writes a list’of things to do and then

organizes them into categories: things that have to be done

straight away, other things that it would be good to do

today, things that are important but haven't got to be done

’mmediately and things that are less urgent but that he

doesn't want to forget. ’sing categories to order the world

is the way the human mind works,' he says. After th’t, you

should put things into hierarchies of importance.' But he also

warn’ against the danger of Excessive List Syndrome.

If people get obsessed with making lists, it doesn't work, they

have ’oo many categories and lose their capacity to prioritize.

33. Which of the following ideas about making lists is not

mentioned in the text?

A) If you make a list, you feel obliged to do each thing in it.

B) It gives you satisfaction when you get something done in

the list.

C) List-making is standard practice in therapy for depression.

D) There is more possibility of fulfillment of your duties.
34. The latter list-makers of the two types mentioned in the

passage ...

A) write down everything in time as it gives them a great

comfort.

B) overcome their fear by making lists though they don't

follow th’m.

C) make a proper list and work accordingly in a relaxed way.

D) feel a real necessity for list-making because of their jobs.

35. According to the text, Excessive List Syndrome is ...

A) to lose ability to list-making. B) to work without priorities.

C) to give up categorizing. D) to get addicted to list-making.