首页
登录
职称英语
How to Take Your TimeHow a person thinks about time can
How to Take Your TimeHow a person thinks about time can
游客
2024-01-03
22
管理
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. [br] The word
sense
in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______.
选项
A、assume
B、perceive
C、comprehend
D、observe
答案
B
解析
本题为词汇题,主要考查考生根据上下文对单词sense的理解。根据第二段“A crabcan sense when the tide is about to change(潮水要变化时,蟹会有知觉)”,我们可以判断选项B(感知)是正确的。而选项A(设想)、C(理解)和D(观察)都不符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3330972.html
相关试题推荐
Choosethecorrectletter,A,BorC.[br]Thestudentthinkspeople[originalte
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whatdideachpersonsaywastheprincipalcauseofstressforthem?ChooseFOUR
Whothinksthefollowing?AKatyaBPeterCbothKatyaandPeter[br]TheIntern
Whothinksthefollowing?AKatyaBPeterCbothKatyaandPeter[br]TheIntern
Whothinksthefollowing?AKatyaBPeterCbothKatyaandPeter[br]TheIntern
随机试题
A—ROM(ReadOnlyMemory)B—CAD(ComputerAidedDesign)C—
[originaltext]M:Idon’tunderstandit.IgotanoticefromthebankthatIhad
As______clearfromhismanners,heisateacher.A、beingB、isC、tobeD、beenBas意
电话通信系统的主要组成部分包括()。A.用户终端设备 B.传输系统 C.
甲、乙、丙经营普通合伙企业,约定由甲代表合伙企业执行合伙企业事务,后来乙擅自代表
成人男性贫血的诊断标准为A、血红蛋白<120g/L;血细胞比容<0.40;红细胞
大黄中泻下成分是A.菲醌类 B.木脂素 C.二蒽酮类 D.游离蒽醌类 E
知觉的整体性是指在直接作用于感觉器官的外界刺激不完备的情况下,人们根据自己的经验
某企业为推介本公司产品,向希望工程捐献了100台本公司生产的电脑,这属于()动
男,20岁。Ⅰ型糖尿病病史10年,平时每天4次胰岛素强化治疗。近2天发热、咽痛,
最新回复
(
0
)