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High-speed living has become a fact of life, and the frantic pace is taking its toll, according to science writer James Gleick.
High-speed living has become a fact of life, and the frantic pace is taking its toll, according to science writer James Gleick.
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2013-10-31
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High-speed living has become a fact of life, and the frantic pace is taking its toll, according to science writer James Gleick. It’ s as if the old " type A" behavior of a few has expanded into the "hurry sickness" of the many.
" We do feel that we’ re more time-driven and time-obsessed and generally rushed than ever before," writes Gleick in Faster; The Acceleration of Just About Everything, a survey of fast-moving culture and its consequences. We may also be acting more hastily, losing control, and thinking superficially because we lie faster.
Technology has conditioned us to expect instant results. Internet purchases arrive by next-day delivery and the microwave delivers a hot meal in minutes. Faxes, e-mails, and cell phones make it possible—and increasingly obligatory—for people to work faster. Gleick cites numerous examples of last-forward changes in our lives; Stock trading and news cycles are shorter; sound bites of presidential candidates on network newscasts dropped from 40 seconds in 1968 to 10 seconds in 1988; and some fast-food restaurants have added express lanes.
High expectations for instant service make even the brief wait for an elevator seem interminable(漫长的). "A good waiting time is in the neighborhood of 15 seconds. Sometime around 40 seconds , people start to get visibly upset" writes Gleick. We’ re dependent on systems that promise speed but often deliver frustration. Like rush-hour drivers fuming when a single accident halts the evening commute, people surfing the Internet squirm if a Web page is slow to load or when access itself is not instantaneous. And the concert of "customer service" can become an oxymoron for customers waiting on hold for a telephone representative.
Up-tempo living has turned people multitaskers—eating while driving, writing an e-mail while talking on the phone, or skimming dozens of television programs on split screen. Gleick suggests that human beings may be capable of adjusting to these new levels of stimuli as high-speed culture challenges our brains " in a way they were not challenged in the past, except perhaps in times of war". We may gain the flexibility to do several things at once but lose some of our capacity to focus in depth on a single task.
Living faster and faster, the multitaskers tend______.
选项
A、to scratch the surface of a thing
B、to do things better at the same time
C、to be flexible with their time schedules
D、to have intense concentration on trivial things
答案
D
解析
文章末段举例说明我们可能得到了the flexibility to do several things at once但是却丧失了capacity to focus in depth on a single task,故D项正确。
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