2016届高考英语词汇冲刺段综合练：01 （原卷版）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语词汇冲刺段综合练：01 （原卷版）

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　　(改编自江苏省扬州市2016届高三上学期期末考试)You and I agree to meet at four-thirty. I show up at 4:33. I don’t say anything, because that’s close enough to satisfy our social ___1___. Only after five minutes do you ___2___ me to say, “sorry I’ m late.” At ten minutes I owe you an ___3___: “the free way exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.” After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious ___4___. After forty minutes I’d better not ___5___ at all.

　　That sort of thing—so formally ___6___ and never explicitly stated—drives people from other cultures ___7___. Anthropologists(人类学家list the ___8___ things to cope with in a foreign land. Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with ___9___.

　　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 ______ 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.