阅读理解 Part D You are going to read a passage about productive postponement. Decide whether the statements in the box agree with the information given in the passage. You should choose from the following. A YES = the statement agree with the information in the passage B NO = the statement contradicts the information in the passage C NOT GIVEN = there is no information on this in the passage Productive postponement It’s a frustrating irony of the universe that the way to get something you really want is often not to want is so badly. Worry too hard about a task and the anxiety will prevent you performing your best; stop looking for love, goes the cliché, and that’s when you’ll find it. Try too hard to be happy and you’ll find yourself on a misery-inducing treadmill （单调的工作）of self-improvement efforts, contradictory advice and motivational seminars conducted by exceptionally dubious men in hotel ballrooms. The solution is to “let go” of worry, of seeking happiness. But implementing that advice is close to impossible: it’s a tall order just to stop feeling anxious or to stop wanting something you want. Mercifully, some authors offer a far more palatable alternative: instead of getting embroiled in trying to let go of thoughts and emotions that get in your way, postpone them instead. Understandably, putting things off has often been considered as undesirable: see the bestseller Excuse Me. Your Life Is Waiting and similar warnings not to “postpone your dreams”. But there’s a flipside – a technique you might call productive postponement. The psychiatrist Robert Leahy, for example, recommends “worry postponement”: writing down your worries as they arise, and scheduling time to fret. It sounds strange, but there’s research evidence for it, and logic: we worriers derive huge payoffs from worrying – we believe, on some level, that it makes things go better –and so the idea of giving it up can be terrifying. Just putting it off, safe in the knowledge that you can return to it later, is easier. (If you’re worried, consider an email reminder service, and if worrying you’ll forget to worry strikes you as absurd, well. Consider yourself lucky and welcome to my world.) Psychotherapists call techniques such as postponement “metacognitive”, meaning that they make you aware of your habitual thought processes, and therefore work more lastingly than, say, trying to relieve a particular worry by addressing its specific content. Postponement works with perfectionism, too. If you can’t get rid of the notion that some task must be done perfectly, can you suspend that requirement just for now, resolving to revert to your perfectionism at some predetermined point in the near future? The essayist Anne Lamott, in her book Bird By Bird, calls this the principle of “shitty first drafts”, but, like so much of her counsel, it applies beyond writing.