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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.

The next paragraph is probably about____.

A.The natural function of our brain
B.The other ways to make the benefits of action feel bigger and real
C.The other ways to make the benefits of action feel smaller and unreal
D.The perils of procrastination

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答案： B

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本题考查的是判断推理。

【关键词】next paragraph; probably about

【主题句】倒数第2段To make the benefits of action feel bigger and more real使行动的好处感觉更强烈更真实。

【解析】本题的问题是“下一段也许会讨论什么？”。选项A意为“我们大脑的自然功能”；选项B意为“使行动的好处感觉更大更真实的其他方法”；选项C意为“使行动的好处的其他方式感觉更小和不真实”；选项D意为“拖延的危险”。通览全文可知，文章讲的是如何避免拖延，作者就该问题给出了一个建议：To make the benefits of action feel bigger and more real.

对于这个建议的实施，作者在最后一段有说明，因此接下来作者也会针对这个建议进行更多详细说明，故B项正确。