Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. slippery B. negative C. extending D. combination E. refocus F. guilty
G. scan H. tough I. escape J. reasonable K. motivating |
When Stephanie Andel can feel her eyes glaze over scrolling through academic papers, institutional emails or student marking, she'll open a new tab in her web browser and explore. "I take a few minutes every hour or two to surf the web, look at news or 【小题1】 my Facebook feed to catch up with friends," Andel, assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University—Purdue University of Indianapolis, admits.
This phenomenon is "cyberloafing." The word is a（n） 【小题2】 of "cyber," which means "related to computers," and "loafing," which means "relaxing in a lazy way."
It is a（n） 【小题3】 slope, which can damage productivity. A study from the University of Taxes suggests we are 【小题4】 of this form of procrastination（拖延）for 14% of our working day. On a Friday afternoon, it's more than that.
Cyberloafing is often presented as a 【小题5】 . Yet more recent research suggests that a degree of cyberloafing may be beneficial to employees；those small breaks help them 【小题6】 between tasks and even deal with workplace stress.
The key question is when a short break to reset after a 【小题7】 task turns into procrastination. "There's a fine line between cyberloafing to refresh the mind and when people are doing it as an 【小题8】 from the task because they find the task challenging," says Dr Fuschia Sirois of the University of Sheffield's Department of Psychology.
Sirois says that 【小题9】 a break to recalibrate（重新校准）needs to be done with care. "You've always got to be 【小题10】 ," she says. "A 15-minute break because your brain is turning into mush is fine. But if you find yourself saying you just need another few minutes, it's bad. If you go past the point where you set a limit on your break time, it just becomes procrastination."
