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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

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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.
An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
Since people have been taught to schedule their life according to the time our society keeps since childhood, their life is actually controlled by time.

                        Answer Choices
(A)In modern bureaucratic society, the concept of time that we follow is often linear chronological time.
(B)When our natural inner rhythms are out of synchronization with clock time, stress results, which can cause "time sickness" and other kinds of sickness.
(C)Dossey thinks "time sickness" can be treated and prevented by changing the way we think about time.
(D)The time our society keeps has been taught to us since birth. We think of it as something that everyone everywhere must somehow share.
(E)To illustrate that time is relative, Einstein observed that to a person sitting on a hot stove, two minutes could feel like two hours.
(F)What’s more, Dossey also offers some simple techniques, which can help you change and master your own life.
选项
答案B. When our natural inner rhythms are out of synchronization with clock time, stress results, which can cause "time sickness" and other kinds of sickness. C. Dossey thinks "time sickness" can be treated and prevented by changing the way we think about time. F. What’s more, Dossey also offers some simple techniques, which can help you change and master your own life.
解析 本题是篇章总结题，考查考生对全文段落大意的总体把握能力。读文章后可以发现，上述三个句子很好地概括了原文的主要思想内容，即如果我们自身的生物钟与自然的节奏不相吻合，就会出现焦虑、感觉压力等症状；但是“时间病”却可以通过改变我们对于时间的看法而得到治疗；而且Dossey也提供了一些行之有效的方法帮助人们掌握自己的生活。另外三个句子，A项文中没有提到，D项和E项文中虽然提到但不是概括性的内容，不能阐述文章的中心思想。
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