Which kind of person is least likely to procrastinate?
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Which kind оf persоn is leаst likely tо procrаstinаte?
DIRECTIONS: Chооse the best аnswer fоr eаch question. The Sky Runner [A] Growing up in а village in eastern Nepal's Bhojpur Mountains, Mira Rai had dreams that went far beyond the conventional expectations for Nepali women. The eldest daughter of five children, she was expected to fetch water, tend crops and livestock, and help out at home. By age 12, she no longer regularly attended school, and instead hauled heavy bags of rice up and down steep trails - often barefoot - to trade at the market. It was hard work - but great training for a future trail runner. [B] "As a girl," Rai recalls, "I would constantly be told to know my place, suppress my voice, and act in a certain manner. For me, breaking free from these traditions itself was a big dream." [C] Several years ago, Rai's dream became reality. She was running outside Kathmandu when two male trail runners invited her to enter her first trail race, the Kathmandu West Valley Rim 50K. She had never run 50 kilometers before, had no special gear or training for such a distance, and was also the only woman in the competition. But against all odds, she beat everyone - even the men. From there, a community of supporters came together to give her a chance to compete in international trail running competitions. [D] Today, the running world recognizes Rai as a high-elevation trail racing phenomenon. Now she is on a mission to help both women and men of Nepal through sports. Rai believes her work to empower others has just begun. "We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop competitive athletes," she says. [E] Wasfia Nazreen, a mountain climber from Bangladesh, knows first-hand the impact Rai has had on the young women of Nepal. "For someone who has left school so early and missed the learning we take for granted, Mira has been able to turn back time and set a rare example by being the change herself," she says. [F] "It's hard to find good role models 1 for young women in our region, especially one coming from the same rural village background as most of the young generation," Nazreen says. Mira is blazing a trail, not just in terms of being able to speak nationally on gender equality, but also by getting young people into running through the new Kathmandu Trail Race Series. "The grit 2 and joy she embodies throughout all her hardships and victories is an inspiration to all of us!" [G] Rai, however, remains humble. "I have been able to do the things I did because so many people believed in me and took chances, and I want to give back so others can have a chance just the way I did," she says. "We have a saying in Nepal, ' Khana pugyos, dina pugos,' which means, 'Let there be enough to eat, let there be enough to give.'" [H] Interviewer: Which is more difficult: running a hard, steep trail race or breaking gender stereotypes? Mira Rai: Running is no issue, but breaking gender stereotypes is. For the society we live in, it's difficult for women and men alike because doing anything out of convention means a lot of struggle - especially for women. As women, we are expected to help out with chores at home from childhood and then get married and raise a family, so it becomes a struggle, not merely a challenge. You get called a rebel, and for an adventure sport that involves risks, nobody encourages you. "You'll end up breaking your bones!" they'd say. Though the mindset 3 seems to be changing, it's still at a snail's pace and has a long way to go before women are seen as equivalent to men. [I] What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a stronger runner like you? MR: It was a matter of chance and luck that I became a runner. Back in the village we had to walk hours on end - up and down grueling terrain, often barefoot, with a heavy weight on our backs - and this definitely contributed. I started running, I got professional training that taught me techniques, and gradually I became more determined, motivated, and persistent to chase my dreams. However, I've also learned that proper diet, enough rest, confidence, yoga, and mental well-being - as well as having good support from my mentor Richard Bull and my coach Dhruba Bikram Malla - are just as important as being in shape. [J] You stopped going to school regularly when you were 12. Do you wish you'd had more school? MR: I feel that if I'd finished more school, I would have been able to communicate with more confidence and have a better insight into world affairs. In many cases when I first started racing abroad, I couldn't even be a part of conversations because of my poor English skills. I used to just sit there and listen, but I didn't feel uncomfortable being there as everybody was very supportive. However, with media and sponsors, it would've definitely been more helpful had I obtained more education back home. Even today when I try to read newspapers, I fail to understand quite a few words, so I am taking English classes these days, and it's certainly helping. [K] Running has helped you see the world. What is it like to return to your village now that you have been to Hong Kong, Italy, and other places? MR: I return once a year during the Dashain, the largest festival of the year, and the people there are living the same sort of lives as I saw when I was a kid. We used to have kerosene lanterns, but now there are bulbs that run on solar power. The village had no access by road back in the day; now there are dirt tracks that connect to big towns. But the mud houses are the same. There's phone connection, but it doesn't work well. When I go back, I meet a lot of youngsters that ask me how they can live differently. They definitely seem motivated, but sadly their folks do not agree with such ambition. While the physical infrastructure in my village has improved, the mindset has not. I remain hopeful that the future generation will break the mold. [L] What work are you doing now with communities in Nepal? MR: While recovering from knee surgery, I have been providing guidance to men and women alike in running and encouraging them to pursue a career as professional athletes. Every so often, I visit schools and children's homes to share my knowledge about running, particularly training, diet, and more importantly, an active lifestyle. [M] We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop competitive athletes, so we're organizing a series of trail races in Kathmandu. These are short races aimed for both beginners and experienced runners. I also organized a small race back in my hometown of Sano Dumma last October, to introduce the sport to the young crowd and get them interested in running. In the coming days, I plan to organize races that aim to identify and promote promising runners. [N] Is there a personal challenge that you still want to achieve? MR: I have always dreamed of running in the Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc in France. It's a challenging race for elite runners from all over the world - 166 kilometers! I would love to see where I stand in this race. 1 A role model is someone who is a good example for young people to follow. 2 If you show grit, you have courage. 3 Your mindset is your way of thinking. In paragraph I, the expression being in shape means ____.
DIRECTIONS: Chооse the best аnswer fоr eаch question. The Sky Runner [A] Growing up in а village in eastern Nepal's Bhojpur Mountains, Mira Rai had dreams that went far beyond the conventional expectations for Nepali women. The eldest daughter of five children, she was expected to fetch water, tend crops and livestock, and help out at home. By age 12, she no longer regularly attended school, and instead hauled heavy bags of rice up and down steep trails - often barefoot - to trade at the market. It was hard work - but great training for a future trail runner. [B] "As a girl," Rai recalls, "I would constantly be told to know my place, suppress my voice, and act in a certain manner. For me, breaking free from these traditions itself was a big dream." [C] Several years ago, Rai's dream became reality. She was running outside Kathmandu when two male trail runners invited her to enter her first trail race, the Kathmandu West Valley Rim 50K. She had never run 50 kilometers before, had no special gear or training for such a distance, and was also the only woman in the competition. But against all odds, she beat everyone - even the men. From there, a community of supporters came together to give her a chance to compete in international trail running competitions. [D] Today, the running world recognizes Rai as a high-elevation trail racing phenomenon. Now she is on a mission to help both women and men of Nepal through sports. Rai believes her work to empower others has just begun. "We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop competitive athletes," she says. [E] Wasfia Nazreen, a mountain climber from Bangladesh, knows first-hand the impact Rai has had on the young women of Nepal. "For someone who has left school so early and missed the learning we take for granted, Mira has been able to turn back time and set a rare example by being the change herself," she says. [F] "It's hard to find good role models 1 for young women in our region, especially one coming from the same rural village background as most of the young generation," Nazreen says. Mira is blazing a trail, not just in terms of being able to speak nationally on gender equality, but also by getting young people into running through the new Kathmandu Trail Race Series. "The grit 2 and joy she embodies throughout all her hardships and victories is an inspiration to all of us!" [G] Rai, however, remains humble. "I have been able to do the things I did because so many people believed in me and took chances, and I want to give back so others can have a chance just the way I did," she says. "We have a saying in Nepal, ' Khana pugyos, dina pugos,' which means, 'Let there be enough to eat, let there be enough to give.'" [H] Interviewer: Which is more difficult: running a hard, steep trail race or breaking gender stereotypes? Mira Rai: Running is no issue, but breaking gender stereotypes is. For the society we live in, it's difficult for women and men alike because doing anything out of convention means a lot of struggle - especially for women. As women, we are expected to help out with chores at home from childhood and then get married and raise a family, so it becomes a struggle, not merely a challenge. You get called a rebel, and for an adventure sport that involves risks, nobody encourages you. "You'll end up breaking your bones!" they'd say. Though the mindset 3 seems to be changing, it's still at a snail's pace and has a long way to go before women are seen as equivalent to men. [I] What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a stronger runner like you? MR: It was a matter of chance and luck that I became a runner. Back in the village we had to walk hours on end - up and down grueling terrain, often barefoot, with a heavy weight on our backs - and this definitely contributed. I started running, I got professional training that taught me techniques, and gradually I became more determined, motivated, and persistent to chase my dreams. However, I've also learned that proper diet, enough rest, confidence, yoga, and mental well-being - as well as having good support from my mentor Richard Bull and my coach Dhruba Bikram Malla - are just as important as being in shape. [J] You stopped going to school regularly when you were 12. Do you wish you'd had more school? MR: I feel that if I'd finished more school, I would have been able to communicate with more confidence and have a better insight into world affairs. In many cases when I first started racing abroad, I couldn't even be a part of conversations because of my poor English skills. I used to just sit there and listen, but I didn't feel uncomfortable being there as everybody was very supportive. However, with media and sponsors, it would've definitely been more helpful had I obtained more education back home. Even today when I try to read newspapers, I fail to understand quite a few words, so I am taking English classes these days, and it's certainly helping. [K] Running has helped you see the world. What is it like to return to your village now that you have been to Hong Kong, Italy, and other places? MR: I return once a year during the Dashain, the largest festival of the year, and the people there are living the same sort of lives as I saw when I was a kid. We used to have kerosene lanterns, but now there are bulbs that run on solar power. The village had no access by road back in the day; now there are dirt tracks that connect to big towns. But the mud houses are the same. There's phone connection, but it doesn't work well. When I go back, I meet a lot of youngsters that ask me how they can live differently. They definitely seem motivated, but sadly their folks do not agree with such ambition. While the physical infrastructure in my village has improved, the mindset has not. I remain hopeful that the future generation will break the mold. [L] What work are you doing now with communities in Nepal? MR: While recovering from knee surgery, I have been providing guidance to men and women alike in running and encouraging them to pursue a career as professional athletes. Every so often, I visit schools and children's homes to share my knowledge about running, particularly training, diet, and more importantly, an active lifestyle. [M] We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop competitive athletes, so we're organizing a series of trail races in Kathmandu. These are short races aimed for both beginners and experienced runners. I also organized a small race back in my hometown of Sano Dumma last October, to introduce the sport to the young crowd and get them interested in running. In the coming days, I plan to organize races that aim to identify and promote promising runners. [N] Is there a personal challenge that you still want to achieve? MR: I have always dreamed of running in the Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc in France. It's a challenging race for elite runners from all over the world - 166 kilometers! I would love to see where I stand in this race. 1 A role model is someone who is a good example for young people to follow. 2 If you show grit, you have courage. 3 Your mindset is your way of thinking. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as something that Mira Rai has achieved?
DIRECTIONS: Chооse the best аnswer fоr eаch question. How Jimmy Chin Filmed Alex Honnold's Deаth-Defying Free Solo Honnold planned to climb Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope. Chin would film it. But first they had to figure out how to talk about it. [A] When you are Jimmy Chin, you make a long list of rules for filming your friend Alex Honnold's historic attempt to climb Yosemite's El Capitan without using any ropes. First you will hire a team of world-class climber-cinematographers to rappel beside him as he ascends the nearly 3,000-foot granite face. No one is allowed to whisper, sneeze, drop a lens cap, dislodge a pebble - any of which might create the distraction that sends him plummeting to his death. Most important, no one is allowed to talk to Honnold about the epic climb, at least not directly. This is to avoid putting any pressure on him but also to keep from upsetting his precisely calibrated mind-set, a mixture of acute concentration, bulletproof confidence, and deep Zen calm. Instead of using the term "free soloing," which means climbing without ropes or safety gear, you use his preferred euphemism - "scrambling." [B] You follow these rules knowing that any notion of rules is contradictory to the very idea of free soloing, because in this ruthlessly unforgiving sport there really aren't any rules, at least no written ones. That's much of the point. Climbing without ropes is decidedly against all the rules, especially the rules of mountain safety, not to mention human logic. [C] Some veteran climbers say there is no if a free soloist falls - only when. You can think of many who have fallen to their deaths, some you knew personally. And suddenly there it is: the vividly horrifying image of your friend flailing into the void. [D] But wait. That's exactly what you're not supposed to picture when your buddy is trying to do what some experts say is the most daring ascent ever attempted - what Honnold's friend and fellow elite climber Tommy Caldwell called "the moon landing of free soloing." [E] Such thoughts looped in Chin's mind for more than a year as he and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, his wife and filmmaking partner, documented Honnold's efforts to make climbing history. (Spoiler alert: He makes it.) The film, aptly titled Free Solo, was released in theaters. [F] "To film a climber with both the physical and mental ability Alex has, combined with the desire to take on something so ambitious and scary," Chin says, "it's the project of a lifetime, no doubt." [G] Chin, 45, and Honnold, 33, first climbed together in 2009 as part of an expedition to Borneo to explore Low's Gully, one of the world's deepest slot canyons. Honnold had recently burst onto the climbing scene with a series of headline-grabbing free solos, including Yosemite's Half Dome. Chin remembers being struck by Honnold's boyish face and large brown eyes, which would inevitably earn him the nickname Bambi. [H] But Honnold's youthful appearance belies his most exceptional gift - an uncanny ability to control his fear and focus on perfectly executing the task at hand (never mind that the task is reaching for a fingertip of rock while clinging to a cliff 1,000 feet up). It's a gift that Chin shares in some measure. Three years before meeting Honnold, he climbed Mount Everest and skied down its icy, nearly vertical face. [I] After Borneo, the men started climbing together regularly, with Chin filming some of Honnold's free solos. "We built up a lot of trust," says Chin. "He trusted me to safely film him, and I trusted him to climb only what he felt good about and not to feel compelled to do rad stuff for the camera." [J] Meanwhile Honnold had been privately contemplating what it would take to free solo El Cap. "After Half Dome it seemed like the next obvious thing," Honnold says. "At the end of each season, I'd think I'd be ready to do it the next year, but then I'd look up at it and think, 'Whoa, that's still too scary.'" [K] Finally, in late 2015, Honnold told Chin and Vasarhelyi he was ready, and they agreed to work together in secret on a film about the climb. "It was very important that the film would be about Alex's process," Chin says. "Whether it ended with him summiting El Cap or deciding not to go for it didn't matter. It was always about how do you even think about doing something so mind-bending." [L] Honnold chose a route called Freerider, one that often takes skilled climbers using ropes multiple days to ascend. He set about perfecting a hand-by-hand, foot-by-foot choreography up the famous cliff. Meanwhile Chin hired a crew of hard-core Yosemite climbers and began planning the extensive logistics. [M] Each practice session required many hours of preparation. Chin and the crew would speed climb an easy route up the east side of El Cap ahead of Honnold, lugging hundreds of pounds of cameras, ropes, and gear. Then they'd rappel down Freerider and use a type of hand winch to keep pace with him as he climbed. "We all got in the best shape of our lives," Chin says. But at the end of each marathon day, the mental loop of what-ifs would play: "Not a day went by that I didn't think about the worst." [N] Around 5 p.m. on June 2, 2017, feeling that he was at his peak, Honnold asked Chin if the team could be ready to shoot the next day. "I think I'll go scrambling," he said. Chin nodded, acting like it was no big deal: "My mind was racing with all the things we needed to put in place before it got dark, but I didn't want to upset his mind-set, so I hung out with him for a while." Finally Chin told Honnold he'd see him in the morning and walked slowly until he was out of his friend's line of sight. [O] Then Chin ran like hell. He jumped on the crew's walkie-talkie channel and, using Honnold's code name, alerted the team to what was about to happen. "Bambi is going for it! Repeat: Bambi is going for it!" Why is Honnold nicknamed Bambi, a name which refers to a young cartoon deer?
DIRECTIONS: Cоmplete the sentences using the wоrds in the bоx. аrtificiаl аscend contemplate delicate devoid of plummet scheme stamina successive tackle He invested all his savings in his latest moneymaking ____________________, but unfortunately it wasn't successful. [BLANK-1]