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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
If anything should happen, the nearest person he could contact by radio , _____ there was a ship nearby, would be on an island 885 miles away.
A. until B. when C. once D. unless
Four thousand seven hundred meters above sea level ________, its glaciers being the source of Asia’s most important rivers.
A. the Tibetan Plateau lies
B. lies the Tibetan Plateau
C. does the Tibetan Plateau lie
D. lying the Tibetan Plateau
—The car is small. Is it safe?
—Definitely. Tests suggest it is ________ safe than any other type of good car.
A. no less B. not less C. no more D. not more
________ yourself with excellent students around you to find your weakness, and you will keep on making greater progress.
A. Comparing B. Having compared
C. Compare D. Compared
________ China is a developing country, it also has the world’s largest number of foreign exchange reserves.
A. When B. While C. As D. Because