listening1.doc Listen to the upcoming short talk and complete the related statements below accordingly. Hello class, There goes the bell! Time for class, everybody. Class begins 1) ----------because otherwise we would have to run over time. And no one would like that, would you?! Can you imagine what our lives would be like without time 2)--------? Hard to imagine, isn’t it? We humans may have invented time, but we’ve never been able to actually 3)------. Technology can’t help us gain more time for ourselves either because in fact time is 4)-----------. So it’s not something we can either gain or lose. “Time” as we know it results from our impression of the 5)---------. Because time can not be created, only spent, we humans have 6)------ into time-conscious beings. This sensitivity often leads us, unfortunately, to the feeling that 7) “------,” that too much time has passed by before 8)------. You know why? It’s partly because we value life and don’t want to see it end. But it’s also partly because our living pace is getting 9)--------- with every passing year. By that I mean we are living 10)-------. As a result, most of us are becoming multitaskers — we write emails while talking on the phone, eat while driving, or cook dinner with the TV on, etc. You didn’t think you’re the only one doing that kind of stuff, did you? For sure, no: we are all just the same. So today we 11) --------- to manage time. If we can pick up the right skills and tools to 12) --------, our experience of life will be that we have more time — even if that’s not literally so.