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【题目】Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists 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 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（引用语） 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】

试题分析： 1分钟为什么有时会很长，而有时又很短呢？这就是心理时间和物理时间的差异，文章告诉我们产生这种差异的原因，并帮助我们怎样可以让自己“过”得慢些。

【1】判断推理题。由第一段可知，物理学家创造出了一些幻妙的定理，但是他们意义中的时间是用钟摆来测量的，而不是所谓的心理时间，心理时间已经超出了钟表或日历的范畴。有人是这样评价它们的区别的：当你和一个美女对坐，两小时就像一分钟那么短，而当你坐在火炉边，一分钟就像两小时那么长。引用此句只是为了说明物理时间和心理时间的不同。故选A。

【2】判断推理题。由“They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass．”可知，如果我们在计划表或约会表上花费越多的时间，那么我们的时间似乎就过得越快。因此我们变老的原因就是我们把很多时间都花在了计划安排上了。故选C。

【3】主旨大意题。本文阐述了心理时间和物理时间的差异，为什么我们会觉得时间过得很快的原因，以及怎样才能让心理时间变慢。故选B。