专题04 阅读理解之夹叙夹议文—2021-2022学年高二英语下学期期末考试好题汇编（全国甲卷乙卷版）.docx

04 夹叙夹议文 Passage 1 （202 1 · 四川 · 南充 期末） In college, there was a 90-page senior thesis, a paper we were supposed to spend a year on. So I decided I kind of had to go something step by step. But then, those first few months? They came and went, and I couldn’t quite do stuff. Then six months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks. One day I woke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word. So I did the only thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters, sprinted across campus, and got it in just at the deadline. It was a very, very bad thesis. Anyway, today I’m a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait But Why about procrastination to explain what goes on in the heads of procrastinator s. I had a hypothesis(假想) that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people. Both brains have a Rational Decision Maker, but the procrastinator’s instant brain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey. The Rational Decision Maker will make the reasonable decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn’t like that plan, who actually takes the wheel. He lives entirely in the present moment and only cares about two things: easy and fun. Sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you’re having dinner. But other times, it makes much more sense to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant. That’s when we have a conflict. Well, it turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, called the Panic Monster. The Panic Monster is resting most of the time, and he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there’s danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence. And importantly, he’s the only thing the Monkey is afraid of. See, that’s what is experiencing in a procrastinator’s brain. 1．What’s the purpose of mentioning the experience in my college? A．To explain