首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
How to Take Your Time How a person thinks about time can kill him, according to Dossey, a pioneer in the emerging science of chr
How to Take Your Time How a person thinks about time can kill him, according to Dossey, a pioneer in the emerging science of chr
admin
2013-08-12
38
问题
How to Take Your Time
How a person thinks about time can kill him, according to Dossey, a pioneer in the emerging science of chronobiology, the study of how time interacts with life. One of the most common ills in our society, he says, is "time sickness", a sense of time pressure and hurry that cause anxiety and tension. These
symptoms
can contribute to heart disease and strokes, two of our most frequent causes of death.
(A)
Almost all living things in our world carry their own biological clocks synchronised with the rhythms of nature.(B)
A crab can
sense
when the tide is about to change. A mouse wakes when night nears. A squirrel knows when to prepare for its long winter nap.(C)
They adjust to changes in the environment.(D)
Light is the most powerful synchroniser in most living things. But in humans there is another powerful synchroniser: other people. Pioneering studies in Germany reported that when people were put together in groups isolated from
external
time cues of light, temperature and humidity, their own complex internal time-keeping rhythms became desynchronised; then they resynchronised in unison. Even body temperatures started to rise and fall together, a sign that subtle biochemical changes in each body were now happening together. These experiments may have discovered one of the mysterious forces that reshape individuals into members of a team, cult or mob.
The mind can alter rhythms of time in various ways. People brought back from the brink of death often recall their entire lives flashing before them in an instant. Those who have been in a serious accident often report that, as it occurred, everything happened in slow motion; apparently this is a survival tool built into the brain, an ability to
accelerate
to several times normal perceptual speed, thereby "slowing down" the world and giving the victim "time" to think about how to avoid disaster.
Because the time our society keeps has been taught to us since birth, we think of it as something that everyone everywhere must somehow share. But cultures differ in how they perceive time. In North America and the industrialised countries of northern Europe, life is tightly scheduled. To keep someone waiting is frowned upon. But in southern Europe and in the Hispanic countries of Latin America, people are given priority over schedules, and in making appointments, the starting time is more flexible.
Each view of time has advantages and disadvantages. But the costs can be great. When our natural inner rhythms are out of synchronisation with clock time, stress results. Under the tyranny of clock time, western industrialised society now finds that heart disease and related illnesses are the leading causes of death. However, such "time illnesses" can be treated and prevented by changing the way we think about time. He applies simple techniques that you can also use to change and master your own time:
1)Unclock your life.
Stop wearing a wristwatch. Time becomes much less of a concern when we break the habit of looking at clocks or watches.
2)Set your own inner sense of time.
To illustrate that time is relative, Einstein observed that to a person sitting on a hot stove, two minutes could feel like two hours; to the young man with a pretty girl, two hours could seem like two minutes.
3)Tap your body’s power to change time.
We all possess an inborn ability to relax. Most people can summon it up merely by dismissing disturbing thoughts and by controlling their breathing—for example, by thinking the word "one" with each outgoing breath. Within several minutes this can produce deep calm.
4)Synchronize yourself with nature.
Take time to watch a sunset, or a cloud cross the sky. Remember that there is a time far older than what humankind has created with clocks.
The cultural pattern we call time is learnt, and if we wish to live in harmony with nature, we must learn to recognize that its time still shapes our world and should not be ignored. We created the mechanical time around which our society operates, and we have the freedom to choose whether we will be its slave or its master.
The word
external
in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to______.
选项
A、outside
B、inner
C、latter
D、former
答案
A
解析
本题为词汇题,重点考查考生根据上下文对单词external的理解。根据第三段单词所在的句子“when people were put together in groups isolated from external time cues of light.temperature and humidity,their own complex internal timekeeping rhythms becamedesynchronised”可知,当人们被集聚在一起并与外部时间提示,如光、温度和湿度隔离开来时,他们自身复杂的内部时间节奏就会与外部时间提示不一致。所以选项A(外面的)是最恰当的。而选项B(内部的)、选项C(后面的)和选项D(前面的)都不符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pbfO777K
0
托福(TOEFL)
相关试题推荐
Completetheform.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachanswer.PERSONALDETAILSFORMName:Mary【T6】______Address:Flat2【T
Completetheform.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachanswer.PERSONALDETAILSFORMName:Mary【T6】______Address:Flat2【T
Completetheform.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachanswer.PERSONALDETAILSFORMName:Mary【T6】______Address:Flat2【T
AtfirstFionathinksthatMartin’stutorialtopicis______
AtfirstFionathinksthatMartin’stutorialtopicis______
WritetheappropriatelettersA-Cagainstquestions26~30.Accordingtothespeakers,inwhichsituationarethefollowingm
Completethenotesbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachanswer.PersonalityQuestionnairescom
Completethenotesbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSforeachanswer.TheWorldHealthOrganisationsaysahealthycitymust
Completetheformbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTWOWORDSORANUMBERforeachanswer.Healthclubcustomerrese
Listentothedirectionsandmatchtheplacesinquestions11-15totheappropriateplaceamongA-Eonthemap.HealthCentre
随机试题
Thebiggestsafetythreatfacingairlinestodaymaynotbeaterroristwithagun,butthemanwiththeportablecomputerinbus
筛查早期宫颈癌患者的常用方法是
Gd-DTPA的临床应用剂量为
发生溶血反应时,护士首先应()。
患者,男,59岁。高血压心脏病近1年来,患者明显感觉体力活动受限,休息时无症状,但洗脸、刷牙即可引起呼吸困难、心悸,此患者目前心功能处于
A.0.9%氯化钠注射液B.5%葡萄糖注射液C.注射用水D.2mL磷酸氢二钠缓冲液E.人体白蛋白稀释羟喜树碱宜采用()。
地面建筑防水层涂料应从地面延伸到墙面,一般高出地面()。
下列各项财务管理目标中,忽视了资金的时间价值和风险因素,并可能导致企业短期财务决策倾向的是()。
CultureTherearemanythingsaboutourlivesthatmakeupaculture.I.Language—Languageiswhatpeopleandanimalsuset
Telecommunicationsisjustoneofthemeansbywhichpeoplecommunicateand,assuch,weneedtolookattelecommunicationsand
最新回复
(
0
)