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This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress mana
This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress mana
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2017-11-08
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This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress management books have titles like "Stress Management in 60 Seconds".
Canadian Classics Professor Margaret Visser points out that the perception that we have "no time" is one of the most strict concepts of Western culture. Visser says that "no time" is used as an excuse and also as a spur (刺激); it both goads us and forces us, just as a concept such as "honour" did for the ancient Greeks. According to Visser, the feeling that Westerners have "no time" is abstract, quantitative, amoral (非道德性的), unarguable, bringing pressure on each person as an individual. At the same time, the "no time" excuse escapes censure by claiming to be a condition created entirely out of our good fortune.
Life offers "so many pleasures, so many choices".
The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the "no time" trend. But more important, Visser says, is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component of our economy. Marketing of "time-saving" products causes people to buy more and work longer. So we eat out or buy prepared food to save time. The fax-it-to-me-in-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry. In our rushed and exhausted state, even the obligation (义务) to sit down to casual meal with family seems like a pressure. In comparison with the decision to act on a sudden whims (一时的兴致) to consume a microwave mug of soup, the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event. Being in one’ s own personal hurry in the West is somehow "free and preferable".
The following things have led to the "no time" trend in the West according to the passage EXCEPT______.
选项
A、Feeling rushed has become an important component of our economy
B、Women now work outside the home
C、People now prefer to be in their own personal hurry
D、People are rushed and exhausted
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据文章最后一段前两句“The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the “no time”trend.But more important,Visser says,is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component of our economy.”可知,A项和B项内容均是导致西方“no time”trend的原因。根据最后一段第六句“In our rushed and exhausted state,even the obligation(义务)to sit down to casual meal with family seems like apressure.”可知,D项内容也是原因之一。C项说法在文章最后一句有体现,但它并不是导致“no time”trend的原因,只是陈述现状。故选C。
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