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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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   _____ . Only after five minutes do you   _____  me to say, “Sorry I’ m late.” At ten minutes I owe you an _____  : “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 _____ . After forty minutes I’d better not _____ at all.

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

Now psychologists look at our   _____ of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the   _____  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 _____  of the fastest pace. Americans are a _____ second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the _____ . Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t _____ setting their bank clocks.

______ 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 _____ , 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. _____ , 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 _____ , towards our 4:30 meeting.

1.A. contract    B. connection   C. construction   D. confidence

2.A. order       B. intend       C. require         D. expect

3.A. action      B. announcement  C. explanation    D. eruption

4.A. apology    B. excuse        C. option         D. opinion

5.A. look up     B. stay up      C. keep up        D. show up

6.A. observed    B. introduced   C. impressed       D. imitated

7.A. immoral   B. unaware      C. crazy           D. thrilled

8.A. fastest     B. toughest      C. strangest       D. funniest

9.A. study      B. time          C. budget          D. transport

10.A. view       B. comment       C. contact        D. phenomenon

11.A. rhyme     B. pace         C. ratio          D. session

12.A. how often  B. how far     C. how soon        D. how long

13.A. tradition  B. note          C. record         D. secret

14.A. narrow    B. shallow      C. close          D. severe

15.A. mood      B. address       C. reference      D. list

16.A. take over B. care about    C. reply to        D. answer for

17.A. Off       B. Among         C. Despite        D. Besides

18.A. ruined    B. accomplished C. erased         D. deserved

19.A. However    B. Therefore     C. Thus            D. Rather

20.A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly  D. anxiously

 

1.A 2.D 3.C 4.A 5.D 6.A 7.C 8.B 9.B 10.A 11.B 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.D 16.B 17.B 18.D 19.A 20.C 【解析】 试题分析: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以及生活节奏,最后作者强调人们不能仅仅围绕着时钟生活,而应该放轻松一些。 1. 考查名词辨析。contract合同,契约,关系;connection联系;construction建设;confidence信任。因为约定在4点30见面,我4点33到,我并没有说什么,因为迟到几分钟不会影响我们之间的约定。故选A。 2. 考查动词辨析。A. order命令;B. intend打算;C. require要求;D. expect期望;句意:只有(迟到)五分钟后,你期望我说:“对不起,我迟到了。”故选D项。 3. 考查名词辨析。action行动;announcement宣布;explanation解释;eruption爆发。后面“the free way exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.(高速公路被关闭,我不得不走四英里的路)是解释的内容。如果我迟到十分钟,我就应该给你一个解释,故选C项。 4. 考查名词辨析。apology道歉;excuse借口;option选择;opinion观点。如果迟到20分钟,我就应该地向你道歉。因为迟到的时间太长了,给对方带来了太大的不便,故选A项。 5. 考查动词短语辨析。look up查找;stay up熬夜,屹立不倒;keep up保持;show up出现。如果迟到了40分钟,那么最好不要出现了。迟到40分钟,这是对别人极大的不尊重。故D正确。 6. 考查动词辨析。observe观察;遵守;introduce介绍,引进;impress留下印象;imitate模仿。那样的事情(指守时这件事)是如此正式的被遵守,而且从来没有明确规定。这里要表达的意思是守时是大家都遵守的不成文的规定。故选A。 7. 考查形容词辨析。immoral不道德的;unaware未察觉的;crazy疯狂的;thrilled兴奋的。正是因为来自不同文化的人对时间的不一样,所以美国以外的人常常会因此而抓狂。故C正确 8. 考查形容词辨析。fastest最快的;toughest最困难的;strangest最奇怪的;funniest最滑稽的。从本段最后可知,语言障碍和对待时间的态度是我们在国外最难以处理的两件事情。故选B项。 9. 考查名词辨析。A. study学习;B. time时间;C. budget预算;D. transport 运输。根据文章第一段内容可知,人们之间对待时间的态度不太一样,这也是除语言障碍外美国人在国外要处理的第二个事情。故选B项。 10. 考查名词辨析。A. view观点;B. comment评论;C. contact联系;D. phenomenon现象。句意:现在心理学家以另外一个角度看待我们的时间观。故选A项。 11. 考查名词辨析。rhyme节奏,专指音乐节奏;pace速度,步伐,(生活、行走、跑步等的)节奏;ratio比率,系数;session会议,学期。短语the pace of life意为“生活节奏”。心理学家们去了好几个国家了解他们不同的生活节奏。故选B项。 12. 考查特殊疑问词辨析。how often是对频率的提问,how far是对距离的提问;how soon是对将来时的提问;how long是对时间长短的提问。心理学家还测量人们回答问题的时间,故选D项。 13. 考查名词辨析。tradition传统;note笔记;record记录;secret秘密。名词短语keep a record of“保持……的记录”。前一段讲述心理学家研究了不同国家的生活节奏,故此讲述日本人保持着最快的生活节奏的记录,故选C项。 14. 考查形容词辨析。narrow狭窄的;shallow肤浅的;close紧密的,接近的;severe严厉的。日本是世界上生活节奏最快的国家,美国紧随其后排名第二。而且这两个国家之间差距很小。故选C。 15. 考查名词辨析。mood情绪;address地址;reference参考;list名单。心理学家到各国调查生活节奏的快慢,他们列出一张名单,日本和美国在名单上排名靠前,意大利和印度尼西亚在名单的最后。故选D。 16. 考查动词短语辨析。A. take over接管;B. care about关心;C . reply to回答;D. answer for回应。句意:印尼人不关心设立他们的银行时钟。故选B项。 17. 考查介词辨析。句意:在美国的城市中,波士顿和堪萨斯城是节奏最快的。根据Boston and Kansas City are fastest. New York is up there, of course可知,这些都是美国的城市,所以使用among表示“在……之中”,故选B。 18. 考查动词辨析。ruin毁掉;摧毁;accomplish完成;实现;erase擦去;deserve应该得到。根据后半句as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles.(洛杉矶是节奏最慢的美国城市),而洛杉矶位于加利福尼亚州,所以加利福尼亚州的慢节奏的名声是应得的。故选D。 19. 考查副词辨析。A. However然而;B. Therefore因此; C. Thus因此;D. Rather 而不是;在现在这样一个技术密集的世界里,紧张的生活改变了我们对待时间的观点,但是如果我们足够聪明,我们不应该仅仅围绕着时间转。上下文之间是转折关系,故使用however。故选A。 20. 考查副词辨析。consistently一致地;unconsciously无意识地;unhurriedly不慌不忙地;anxiously焦虑地。根据上文“if we are smart enough, we should not live by the clock only when we have to.”可以推断,所以我“不紧不慢”去赴约,故选C。 考点:考查文化类短文。
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