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中国考博辅导首选学校 医学考博英语真题及参考答案整理 2006 年阅读理解 assage 2 High-s eed 高速的 Living has become a fact of life 无法更改的事实,and the frantic ace is taking its toll 代价,according to science writer James Gleick. It’s as if the old “ty e A”behavior of a few has ex anded into 扩大为 the “hurry sickness ”of the many. “We do feel that we’re more time-driven and time-obsessed 受时间驱使和困扰 and generally rushed than ever before”write Gleick in Faster:The Acceleration of Just About 几乎 Everything,a survey of fast -moving 移动迅速的, 情节紧凑动人的 culture and its consfequences.We may also be acting more hastily,losing control, and thinking su erficially because we lie faster. Technology has conditioned us to ex ect instant results.Internet urchases arrive by next-day delivery and the microvave delivers a hot meal in minutes.Faxes,e-mails,and cell hones make it lssible — and increasingly obligatory 义务的—for eo le to work faster.Gleick cites numerous exam les of last-forward changes in our lives:Stock trading and news cycles are shorter ; sound bites （新闻采访的）原声摘要播出 of residential candidates on network newscasts dro ed from 40 secinds in 1868 to 10 seconds in 1998 ; and some fast-food restaurants have added ex ress lanes 小路. ‘ （ . . ） PS：育明考博课程咨询方式 扣扣：547 063 862 T L：四零零 六六八 六九七八 有售各院校真题 High ex ectations for instant service 方便的服务 make even the brief wait for an elevator seem interminable (漫长 的). “A good waiting time is in the neighborhood of 15 seconds.Sometime around 40 seconds, eo le start to get visibly 显然 u set”writes Gleick.We’re de endent on systems that romise s eed but often deliver frustration.Like rush-hour 高 峰 时 间 drivers fuming when a single accident halt