YouandIagreetomeetatfour-thirty.Ishowupat4:33.Idon’tsayanythingbecausethat’scloseenoughtosatisfyoursocial36.Onlyafterfiveminutesdoyou37metosay“SorryI’mlate.”AttenminutesIoweyouan
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 36 . Only after five minutes do you 37 me to say “Sorry I’ m late.” At ten minutes I owe you an 38 : “The freeway exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.” After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious 39 . After forty minutes I’d better not 40 at all.
That sort of thing — so formally 41 and never explicitly stated— drives people from other cultures 42 . Anthropologists (人类学家)list the 43 things to cope with in a foreign land. Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with 44 .
Now psychologists look at our 45 of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the 46 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 47 people take to answer questions.
Japanese keep a 48 of the fastest pace. Americans are a 49 second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the 50 . Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t 51 setting their bank clocks .
__52 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 53 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. 54 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 55 towards our 4:30 meeting.
36. A .contract B. connection C. construction D. confidence
37. A. order B. intend C. require D. expect
38. A. action B. announcement C. explanation D. eruption
39. A. apology B. excuse C. option D. opinion
40. A. look up B. stay up C. keep up D. show up
41. A. observed B. introduced C. impressed D. imitated
42. A. immoral B. unaware C. crazy D. thrilled
43. A. fastest B. toughest C. strangest D. funniest
44. A. study B. time C. budget D. transport
45. A. view B. comment C. contact D. phenomenon111]
46. A. rhyme B .pace C. ratio D. session
47. A. how often B. how far C. how soon D. how long
48. A . tradition B. note C. record D. secret
49. A. narrow B. shallow C. close D. severe
50. A. mood B. address C. reference D. list
51. A. take over B. care about C . reply to D . answer for
52. A. Off B. Among C . Despite D. Besides
53. A. ruined B. accomplished C. erased D. deserved
54. A. However B. Therefore C. Thus D. Rather
55. A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly D. anxiously
36. A
37. D
38. C
39. A
40. D
41. A
42. C
43. B
44. B
45. A
46. B
47. D
48. C
49. C
50. D
51. B
52. B
53. D
54. A
55. C
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