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资料：Procrastination comes in many disguises. We might resolve to tackle a task, but find endless reasons to defer it. We might prioritize things we can readily tick off our to-do list- answering emails, say- while leaving the big, complex stuff untouched for another day. We can look and feel busy. while artfully avoiding the tanks that really matter. And when we look at those rolling, long untouched items at the bottom of our to-do list, we can't help but feel a little disappointed in ourselves.

The problem is our brains are programmed to procrastinate. In general, we all tend to struggle with task that promise future upside in return for efforts we take now. That's because it's easier for our brains to process concrete rather than abstract things, and the immediate hassle is very tangible compared with those unknowable, uncertain future benefits. So the short-term effort easily dominates the long-term upside in our minds--an example of something that behavioral scientists call present bias.

How can you become less myopic about your elusive tasks? It's all about rebalancing the cost benefit analysis: make the benefits of action feel bigger, and the costs of action feel smaller. The reward for doing a pestering task needs to feel larger than the immediate pain of tacking it.

To make the benefits of action feel bigger and more real:

Visualize how great it will be to get it done. Researchers have discovered that people are more likely to save for their future retirement if they're shown digitally aged photographs of themselves. Why? Because it makes their future self feel more real-making the future benefits of saving also feel more weighty.

How can you become less myopic about your elusive tasks?

A.Make the costs of action feel smaller
B.Make the reward larger than the immediate pain of doing it
C.Make the benefits of action feel bigger
D.All the above

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答案： D

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【关键词】how; less myopic; elusive tasks

【主题句】第3自然段How can you become less myopic about your elusive tasks? It’s all about rebalancing the cost-benefit analysis: make the benefits of action feel bigger, and the costs of action feel smaller. The reward for doing a pestering task needs to feel larger than the immediate pain of tackling it. 对于困难的任务，你怎么能少一些目光短浅？重新平衡成本效益分析很关键：让行动的好处变得更大，行动成本更小。做困难任务的奖励需要比解决它的直接痛苦更大。

【解析】选项A意为“让行动的代价变得更小”；选项B意为“让奖励大于做它的直接痛苦”；选项C意为“让行动的好处感觉更大”；选项D意为“以上全部”。根据文章第3段的内容（主题句），可知A、B、C项原文都有提及，因此该题选D，所有都涉及。