Questões de CESGRANRIO - Inglês - Compreensão de textos - Múltipla escolha

list all the daily tasks that end up in repeated failure at work.

suggest a strategy to keep focused on the main items on one’s to-do list.

illustrate how he has easily overcome his problem of distraction from relevant goals.

deny that rituals are good habits for developing discipline and focusing on important tasks.

defend the idea that those who invest their time and energy in modifying their habits are never successful.

wishes he could be like them.

would like to be as busy as they are.

does not understand why they like rituals.

never feels pleasure in accomplishing his tasks.

considers himself happier and more dynamic than these people.

confuse the reader by referring to all of Peter Bregman’s financial problems.

show that the author is not immediately accessible to talk to other people at work.

point out that all the author’s enterprises are giving him a succession of bad results.

highlight that the author is referring to himself as being extremely full of activities.

convey to the reader that Peter Bregman has dedicated himself to the company that he owns.

tried to control his impulse of doing irrelevant errands before facing his commitments.

had to change his goals to concentrate only on the details of his daily tasks.

could never see the relevance of doing important work very early in the morning on weekdays.

believes that failure is critical to learning, so it is not essential to control oneself to do the right things.

thinks that the world conspires to make people deny their responsibilities and spend their time on leisure activities.

overly (line 13) could be substituted by “moderately”.

responsive (line 29) and “insensitive” are antonyms.

override (line 33) and “invalidate” express opposite ideas.

ingrain (line 49) and “reject” express similar ideas.

scattered (line 69) and “concentrated” are synonyms.