Here’s some bad news for students who put off studying: procrastinators get more cold and flu symptoms and have more digestive problems than their punctual classmates. They also tend toward an unhealthy lifestyle, according to a recent study of 374 undergraduates at Carleton University in Ottawa by the Procrastination Research Group. Student procrastinators are more likely to eat poorly and smoke, and they sleep less and drink more than students who do their homework promptly.At the root of the problem is an inability to regulate behavior and control impulses--say, drinking more than you had intended when you sat down at the bar. "If you’re quite impulsive then you’re unable to protect one intention from another," says Timothy A. Pychyl, the leader of the Procrastination Research Group who is also a psychologist and co-author of the study. Things can get worse when tasks are impersonal or out of one’s control. "Most assignments are not things that students initiated themselves," he says. "They can lack meaning for that reason. "Giving a procrastinator a hand-held organizer probably won’t change habits in the long term. "It’s not about time management," Dr. Pychyl says. "Some people will buy a day planner, fill it in and say that’s it for today. It becomes part of the procrastination itself. "Such tardiness is not unusual. In one survey, 70 percent of the students confessed to academic tardiness. Some favorite excuses are computer failure, leaving a paper at home and the death of a grandmother. Which of the following sentences about Timothy A. Pychyl is NOT true().
A. He is one of the Procrastination Research Group.
B. He is a psychologist.
C. He is a teacher in Carleton University in Ottawa.
D. He is the co-author of the study.
Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. (21) , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others (22) to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (23) the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed (24) being classified as "English".Even in England there are many (25) in regional character and speech. The chief (26) is between southern England and northern England. South of a (27) going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, (28) there are local variations.Further north, regional speech is usually " (29) " than that of southern Britain. Northerners are (30) to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (31) . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (32) . Northerners generally have hearty (33) : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (34) at meal times.In accent and character the people of the Midlands (35) a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.In Scotland the sound (36) by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (37) in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (38) inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (39) as being more "fiery" than the English. They are (40) a race that is quite distinct from the English. 29().
A. wider
B. broader
C. rarer
D. scarcer