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.

　　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，人们的生活节奏。

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