11.Want to add some hours to your day?Ok,you probably can't change the fabric of time.But a new study suggests that the way you feel about your goal can change your concept of time and that some simple strategies could make you feel less rushed.
In a series of experiments,Jordan Etkin,a professor of marketing at Duke,and her co-authors,Loannis Evangelidis and Jennifer Aaker,looked at what happens when people see their goals as conflicting with one another.In one,they asked some participants to list two of their goals that they felt were in conflict,and others simply to list two of their goals.Those who were forced to think about conflicting aims felt more time pressure than those who weren't.In another experiment,the researchers gave participants a similar prompt regarding goal conflict,but this time measured their anxiety levels as well as their attitudes toward time.They found that participants who thought about conflicting goals had more anxiety than those who didn't,and that this,in turn,led to feelings of being short on time.
"Stress and anxiety and time pressure are closely linked concepts,"D.Etkin explained."When we feel more stress and anxiety in relation to our personal goals,that manifests as a sense of having less time."
Technological advances that allow people to do lots of things at once may increase the feeling of goal conflict,she said.
"I think the easier it is for us to try to deal with a lot of these things at the same time,"
She  said"the more opportunity there is for us to feel this conflict between our goals."
She isn't the first to suggest that actual busyness isn't the only thing that can make us Feel busy  At the Atlantic,Derek Thompson wrote that"as a country,we're working less than we did in the 1960s and 1980s."He offered a number of possible reasons some Americans still feel so overworked,including"the fluidness ffl±) of work and leisure."As he put it:
"The idea that work begins and ends at the office is wrong.On the one hand,flexibility is nice,On the other,mixing work and leisure together creates an always-on expectation that makes it hard for white-collar workers to escape the shadow of work responsibilities."
And Brigid Schulte writes in her 2014 book Overwhelmed:How to Work,Love,and Play When No One Has the Time that some researchers believe"time has no sharp edges.What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time,they have found,is how we feel about it.Our concept of time is indeed,our reality."
Fortunately,Dr.Etkin and her team did find ways of making us feel better about time-or,at least,of reducing the negative influence of goal conflict.When participants performed a breathing exercise that reduced their anxiety,the impact of such conflict o n their perception of time was less pronounced.Reframing anxiety as excitement (by reading the phrase"I am excited!"aloud several times) had a similar effect.
Breathing and reframing may not solve everyone's time problems-Ms.Schulte writes that some Americans are indeed working more than they used to.She cites the work of the sociologists Michael Hout and C aroline Hanley,who have"found that working parents combined put in 13 more hours a week on the job in 2000 than they did in 1970.That's 676 hours of additionally paid work a year for a family.And that's on top of all the unpaid hours spent caring for children and keeping the house together."Sometimes,we may feel short on time because we actually are.However,Dr.Etkin believes her findings suggest we may"have the ability to influence our experience of time more than we think we do."
"We're all going to have times in our lives when our goals seem to be in more conflict than others,"she said.But with techniques like the ones her team tested,"we really can help ourselves feel like we have more time."
58.What makes people feel rushed today?A
A.Goal conflict.B.High pressure.C.Too much expectation.D.Lack of exercise.
59.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?D
A.Most people are having less work to do nowadays.
B.People under a lot of stress have a better sense of time.
C.Technological advances allow people to feel less stressed.
D.The flexibility of work increases white-collar workers'pressure.
60.The underlined sentence"Our concept of time is,indeed,our reality."meansC
A.we should make full use of time
B.we value time more than the way we live
C.we can feel better about time if we want to
D.we don't have the time to enjoy life in reality.

分析 本文屬于人生感悟類閱讀,作者通過這篇文章向我們講述路不同的人對(duì)時(shí)間的不同理解,一項(xiàng)新的研究表明你對(duì)你的目標(biāo)的感覺可以改變你的時(shí)間概念,我們需要正確面對(duì)時(shí)間.

解答 58.A  細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)第二段They found that participants who thought about conflicting goals had more anxiety than those who didn't,and that this,in turn,led to feelings of being short on time.可知目標(biāo)沖突會(huì)給人們造成更多的焦慮,進(jìn)而導(dǎo)致人們感到自己很忙,故選A.
59.D  細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)第七段On the one hand,flexibility is nice,On the other,mixing work and leisure together creates an always-on expectation that makes it hard for white-collar workers to escape the shadow of work responsibilities."可知工作的靈活性增加了白領(lǐng)工人的壓力,會(huì)使他們感到有無處可逃的壓力,故選D.
60.C  推理判斷題,根據(jù)第八段 that some researchers believe"time has no sharp edges.What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time,they have found,is how we feel about it.Our concept of time is indeed,our reality."可知研究人員認(rèn)為時(shí)間是沒有界限的在沒有感覺到時(shí)間的情況下,人們依然可以去工作,去愛,所以時(shí)間的真正意義在于人們?nèi)绾胃惺埽蔬xC.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 考查學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力.做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進(jìn)行比較,再做出正確選擇.在做推理判斷題時(shí)不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí),要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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