第 39 題至第 42 題為篇章結構，各題請依文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者，各題答案內容不重複
For many of us, while we are reading something, we may be listening to music or the radio at the same time. For people who work online, they may be used to e-mailing or instant-messaging or checking stocks at the same time. Since the 1990s, we have accepted multitasking without question. ___39___ While multitasking may seem to be saving time, psychologists and neuroscientists are finding that it can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient. Basically, multitasking is shifting focus from one task to another in rapid succession. ___40___ It gives the illusion that we are simultaneously tasking, but we are really not. In plain language, it is like playing tennis with three balls.
Of course, it depends what we are doing. For some people, listening to music while working actually makes them more creative because they are using different cognitive functions. ___41___ We may all be familiar with the so-called “e-mail voice,” when someone we are talking to on the phone suddenly sounds, well, disengaged. ___42___ They point out that it is a
big illusion that people think they can shift back and forth between tasks. 【題組】41
(A) According to psychologists and neuroscientists, we cannot divide our attention like that.
(B)But despite what many of us think, people cannot simultaneously e-mail and talk on the phone.
(C)But the researchers say that many of us do not like, or even hate, to do many things in a short period of time at work.
(D)Although doing many things at the same time can be a way of making tasks more fun and energizing, we have to keep
in mind that we sacrifice focus when we do this.
個人認為需要依照41題空格的前後文下去推敲，可以發現41題空格前面那句提到一邊聽音樂一邊工作的好處，而在41題空格後面那句的幾個關鍵字：e-mail voice 、 talking to on the phone 和 disengaged下去判斷，得知41題的句子要說的會跟e-mail 及 talk on the phone 相關，而空格的選項內文與前面那句的好處相反，因此用But開頭做前後轉折，進而得到B這個答案。
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