When they become interested in a topic, they work on it intensively for three or four days at a time. On other days they avoid work completely. It has to be confessed that we do not fully understand the complexities of the motivation to work. Most people over 25 years of age have become conditioned to a work routine, and the majority of really productive workers set aside regular hours for the more important aspects of their work. The "tough-minded" school of workers is usually very contemptuous (蔑视的)of the idea that good work can only be done spontaneously under the influence of inspiration. The most energetic of authors, Anthony Trollope wrote: "There are those... who think that the man who works with imagination should allow himself to wait till inspiration moves him. When I have heard such doctrine preached (宣扬), I have hardly been able to repress my scorn." 27. If students work intensively for several days when they are interested in a topic and then avoid work entirely on other days, they are those who ________.

students claim that they work in cycles. When they become interested in a topic, they work on it intensively for three or four days at a time. On other days they avoid work completely.

It has to be confessed that we do not fully understand the complexities of the motivation to work. Most people over 25 years of age have become conditioned to a work routine, and the majority of really productive workers set aside regular hours for the more important aspects of their work. The "tough-minded" school of workers is usually very contemptuous (蔑视的)of the idea that good work can only be done spontaneously under the influence of inspiration. The most energetic of authors, Anthony Trollope wrote: "There are those... who think that the man who works with imagination should allow himself to wait till inspiration moves him. When I have heard such doctrine preached (宣扬), I have hardly been able to repress my scorn."

27. If students work intensively for several days when they are interested in a topic and then avoid work entirely on other days, they are those who ________.

• A. work in cycles
• B. muddle along
• C. follow a regular routine
• D. change their timetable constantly