You really should finish compiling that boring spreadsheet, but you just can’t bring yourself to do it. Maybe it can wait a little longer? Or it might just disappear if you ignore it long enough? You know the feeling.
According to Professor Piers Steel, of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, 95% of people postpone important tasks at some point. But for some, procrastination (拖延症) isn’t occasional, but constant. Professor Joseph Ferrari, of DePaul University Chicago, found that 20% of the population of the world are habitual procrastinators. Sadly, delaying our duties isn’t very good for us. As the poet Edward Young wrote: “Procrastination is the thief of time”.
【写作内容】
1. 用约 30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2. 结合上述信息，简要分析“拖延症”产生的原因及危害；
3. 根据你的分析，就如何克服“拖延症”谈谈你的看法（不少于两点）。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
答案
The two selections presented above clearly reveal that teenagers engage in illegal drug abuse, which has become a growing social phenomenon and to which we are supposed to attach importance.
Quite a few factors give rise to the problem. For one thing, some teenagers take drugs illegally because they are curious or want to rebel against families. For another, some try them just on account of peer pressure. Drug abuse has a dangerous effect on teenagers. Drugs affect teens’ ability to concentrate on their study and work. Besides, drug abuse can cause both emotional and physical problems, and even suck the life right out of a person.
To protect teenagers from illegal drugs, safety education has been of great urgency. By putting more safety education into textbooks, we should make teenagers realize the risk and consequence of taking drugs. Meanwhile, parents’ supervision and communication play an important role in keeping teenagers away from drugs.
