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【題目】Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum（鐘擺）and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the difference remarked, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours.”

Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass．For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach. Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older．

Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we’ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when we’ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The unfamiliarity of the journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasion can often help slow the clock.

When days become as identical as beads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To fight this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day—to stop time. Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn’t have to be.

【1】The quotation（引用語） in the first paragraph is used to indicate ______.

A. physical time is different from psychological time

B. time should not be measured by a pendulum

C. psychological time is quite puzzling

D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time

【2】Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?

A. Our sense of time changes.

B. We spend less time at the beach.

C. More time is structured and scheduled.

D. Time is structured with too many appointments.

【3】What is the main idea of the passage?

A. It gives various explanations about time.

B. It explains why time flies fast and how to slow it down psychologically.

C. It shows the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time.

D. It describes how we experience time psychologically.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【解析】

試題分析： 1分鐘為什么有時會很長，而有時又很短呢？這就是心理時間和物理時間的差異，文章告訴我們產(chǎn)生這種差異的原因，并幫助我們怎樣可以讓自己“過”得慢些。

【1】判斷推理題。由第一段可知，物理學家創(chuàng)造出了一些幻妙的定理，但是他們意義中的時間是用鐘擺來測量的，而不是所謂的心理時間，心理時間已經(jīng)超出了鐘表或日歷的范疇。有人是這樣評價它們的區(qū)別的：當你和一個美女對坐，兩小時就像一分鐘那么短，而當你坐在火爐邊，一分鐘就像兩小時那么長。引用此句只是為了說明物理時間和心理時間的不同。故選A。

【2】判斷推理題。由“They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass．”可知，如果我們在計劃表或約會表上花費越多的時間，那么我們的時間似乎就過得越快。因此我們變老的原因就是我們把很多時間都花在了計劃安排上了。故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。本文闡述了心理時間和物理時間的差異，為什么我們會覺得時間過得很快的原因，以及怎樣才能讓心理時間變慢。故選B。