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阅读下面的短文， 掌握其大意，从每题所给的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 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 ____ .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
--It really annoys me when a person’s cell phone goes off during a movie!
-- Yeah, me too. It really _______.
A. costs me an arm and a leg B. gets on my nerves
C. beats my brains out D. pulls my legs
My sister is quite _____ and plans to get a Ph.D degree within one year.
A. aggressive B. enthusiastic C. considerate D. ambitious
Much time _____ siting at a desk, office clerks are generally troubled by various health problems.
A. being spent B. having spent
C. spending D. spent
--Do you still remember when we went to Australia?
--I can’t remember now but ______ sometime last winter?
A. might it be B. could it be
C. could it have been D. should it have been
His injuries were severe. Five minutes late, _______he would have died.
A. but B. or C. so D. and
