1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家2011年英语原创试题（8）Time and how we experience it have always puzzled usPhysicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum （钟摆） and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendarAs some-one who understood the distincti
2、on observed, 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 hoursPsychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we ageThey also note that the more time is struc
3、tured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to passFor example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beachSince 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
4、speed up as we grow olderExpectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidlyAlmost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere weve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when well arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. B
5、ut the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.When was become as identical as identical as beads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even m
6、onths become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your dayto stop time, so to speak.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 a
7、nd discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesnt have to be.1The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show .Apsychological time is quite puzzlingBtime should not be measured by a pendulumCphysical time is different from psychological timeDphysical theory has
8、 nothing to do with the true sense of time2Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?AOur sense of time changes.BWe spend less time at the beach.CMore time is structured and scheduled.DTime is structured with too many appointments.答案：BC（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多
9、余选项。A 7.0 magnitude（级）earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast. 3 Its not. The pr
10、oblem is whats happening above ground, not underground, experts say. 4 Theyre rapidly putting up buildings that cant stand up to earth quakes, scientists believer.And news reports and better earthquake monitoring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.On average, there are 134 e
11、arthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakesmore than in most years for that time period. But thats because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a large number of strong aftershocks.Also, its not the number of quakes, but their destructive eff
12、ects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards, 5 Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the worlds big cities.Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes. 6 “If you
13、have a problem feeding yourself, youre not really going to worry about earthquakes,” said Paul.The earthquakes made everyone start to think 7 “People are paying attention to the violent planet were always lived on. Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will hav
14、e forgotten it again,” said US disaster researcher Dennis Mileti.ABut it wont last.BMore people are moving into big cities.CEarthquakes dont kill people, buildings do.DThere have been more deaths overt the past decade from earthquakes.EMany people began to wonder if something terrible is happening underground.FWhile it seems as if the are more earthquakes occurring, there really arent.GBut developing nations with growing populations dont pay attention to earthquake preparedness.答案：EBCGA- 2 - 版权所有高考资源网