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🛠️ Workshop and Khalid

(1)
Khalid attended a weekend workshop on mindfulness training and it had been great. He felt he had really benefited from what he had learned. Mindfulness is basically a way to discipline and control one's actions in such a way that they are always in line with one's goals. The first thing he had learned was that for attentive mindfulness, a person's goals in life must be clearly thought out and selected. Once that is done, the next step is to keep all details on how we spend our energy in a state of conscious awareness. The result is that we are always on target. The most insignificant detail then becomes an effortless expenditure of energy that keeps us in line with our goals.

(2)
As the weekend came to an end, he affirmed that he had indeed learned valuable lessons in maintaining mindfulness. They would like his two daughters. He and his wife had been searching for some special lamps for their bedrooms, but hadn't been able to find what the girls wanted. In the big city he found exactly what each of them had said they wanted, and on top of that, he knew his wife would be more than pleased with the beautiful necklace and earrings he had purchased.

(3)
On and on he drove. Suddenly, a shocking realization came to him an hour after he had been on the road. His bag! He had left it behind at the hotel. On his way to the car with the bag, he had decided to stop in the gift shop and pick up something to eat in case he got hungry while driving. From the gift shop he went directly to his car without the bag. There was nothing to do but turn around and go back to the hotel to get it. His four-hour drive would now be considerably longer than four.

📝 Questions

1. When was the workshop?
   A. before the end
   B. during the week
   ✅ C. on a weekend
   D. at the end of the weekend

2. The word effortless in paragraph (1) is closest in meaning to…
   A. Without goals
   B. Without details
   C. Without working
   ✅ D. Without significance

3. According to paragraph (2), to whom did Khalid expect his appreciation for the workshop?
   ✅ A. Only the presenters at the workshop
   B. Only the businessmen at the workshop
   C. Some of his colleagues at the workshop
   D. Everyone who was present at the workshop

4. According to paragraph (1), Khalid will use what he learned at the workshop to control…
   A. His time at the office
   B. The maintenance of memory
   ✅ C. the different areas of his life
   D. All aspects of his employment

5. The word pleased in paragraph (2) is closest in meaning to…
   A. Good
   ✅ B. Happy
   C. Certain
   D. Special

6. According to paragraphs (3) and (4), how long will it take Khalid to drive home?
   A. about 4 hours
   B. exactly 4 hours
   C. much less than 4 hours
   ✅ D. much more than 4 hours