CET-6 Listening Lecture: Why Heavy Multitaskers Struggle to Focus

Recording Three.

讲座三。

Be honest. How many screens are open in front of you right now?

说实话，你面前现在开着几个屏幕？

Many of us believe we're good at doing several things at once.

我们很多人都以为自己很擅长同时做好几件事。

In 2009, researchers at Stanford University put this belief to the test.

2009年，斯坦福大学的研究人员对这种看法进行了检验。

They surveyed more than two hundred students about their media habits.

他们就媒体使用习惯调查了两百多名学生。

Then they compared heavy multitaskers with light ones.

然后，他们把经常一心多用的人和很少这样做的人进行了比较。

In one task, students had to remember red shapes and ignore blue ones.

在其中一项任务中，学生需要记住红色图形，忽略蓝色图形。

The heavy multitaskers were more easily distracted by the blue shapes!

经常一心多用的人反而更容易被蓝色图形分散注意力！

Even more surprising, they were also slower at switching between tasks!

更令人吃惊的是，他们在不同任务之间切换的速度也更慢！

That's exactly the skill you would expect them to be best at.

而这恰恰是人们以为他们最擅长的能力。

The researchers suggested that heavy multitaskers find it harder to filter out what isn't relevant.

研究人员认为，经常一心多用的人更难过滤掉无关的信息。

But the study doesn't show that multitasking causes the problem.

但这项研究并没有证明是一心多用导致了这个问题。

It's possible that easily distracted people simply multitask more.

也有可能只是容易分心的人更喜欢一心多用。

Either way, the practical advice is the same.

不管怎样，实际的建议都是一样的。

When you need to focus, close the extra tabs and put your phone in another room.

需要专注的时候，就关掉多余的标签页，把手机放到另一个房间。

Questions twenty-two to twenty-five are based on the recording you have just heard.

第22题到第25题基于你刚才听到的讲座。

Question twenty-two. What did the researchers first ask the students about?

第22题。研究人员最先问了学生什么？

Question twenty-three. What did the heavy multitaskers find difficult in the shape task?

第23题。在图形任务中，经常一心多用的人觉得什么比较困难？

Question twenty-four. Why does the speaker find the task-switching result surprising?

第24题。说话者为什么觉得任务切换方面的结果出人意料？

Question twenty-five. What does the speaker say about the cause of the problem?

第25题。关于问题的原因，说话者是怎么说的？

And if you listened to this whole lecture without checking your phone, well done!

如果你听完了整场讲座都没有看手机，那真是太棒了！