Now psychologists look at our ___10___ of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the ___11___ of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city residents walk. They time transactions(交易)in banks and post offices. They see ___12___ people take to answer questions.
Japanese keep a ___13___ of the fastest pace. Americans are a ___14___ second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the ___15___. Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t ___16___ setting their bank clocks .
___17___ American cities, Boston and Kansas City are fastest. New York is up there, of course, but we keep a faster pace here in Houston, California’s “slow -pace” reputation is ___18___, as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles.
In a technology-dense world, the tension of life has changed our view of time. ___19___, if we are smart enough, we should not live by the clock only when we have to.
Now it’s 4:55. I’m walking ___20___, towards our 4:30 meeting.
语篇解读:本文属于议论文阅读,谈论了不同国家的人对待时间的不同态度,因而影响了人们的生活节奏。
1.A . contract
B. connection
C. construction
D. confidence
【答案】A
【解析】contract合同,契约,关系;connection联系;construction建设;confidence信心。俩人同意在4:30见面,4:33我到了,我不需要说什么,因为俩人关系密切,这样做符合俩人所处社会的契约。言下之意是说:俩人关系比较好,所以迟到三分钟不会影响俩人之间的关系,用不着说什么。故A正确。
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