II. Listening (2) Direction: Listen to the short talk and fill in the blanks below with the missing words. It will be read twice.[音频]Hello class, There goes the bell! Time for class, everybody. Class begins on time because 1) ____ 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? Hard to imagine, isn’t it? We humans may have 2) ____ time, but we’ve never been able to actually 3) ____ it. Technology can’t help us gain more time for ourselves either because in fact time is not something we have ever had. So it’s not something we can either gain or 4) ____. “Time” as we know it results from our 5) ____ of the span of our lives. Because time can not be created, only spent, we humans have 6) ____ into time-conscious beings. This sensitivity often leads us, 7) ____, to the feeling that “time flies”, that too much time has passed by before we know it. You know why? It’s partly because we 8) ____ life and don’t want to see it end. But it’s also partly because our living 9) ____ is getting quicker and quicker with every 10) ____ year. By that I mean we are living faster and faster. As a 11) ____, 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 12) ____, did you? For 13) ____, no: we are all just the same. So today we are going to learn to manage time. If we can pick up the right skills and 14) ____ to manage time, our experience of life will be that we have more time — even if that’s not 15) ____ so.