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We begin to move restlessly about if we feel time is slipping away without some return——be this in terms of pleasure, work value, or rest.
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Rapport to most of us (Americans) is less important than performance.（）
We want every minute to count.（）
Assignments are thus felt to be given added weight by the passage of time.（）
Most Americans live according to time segments laid out in engagement calendars.（ ）
We [Americans] want every minute to count.（ ）
Time is treated as if it were tangible.（ ）
Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime.（ ）
Time is treated [by Americans] as if it were something almost tangible.（ ）
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We begin to move restlessly about if we feel time is slipping away without some return—be this in terms of pleasure, work value, or rest.（）
Mr. Maydig waved the Winch difficulty away, and made a series of wonderful proposals.（ ）
Sometimes I think how grateful I would be today if I had learned more back then about what really matters.（ ）
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It’s much braver to ask questions even when there’s a prospect of ridicule than to suppress your questions and become deadened to the world around you.（ ）
Ⅲ.PARAPHRASING
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Write a short composition based on one of the texts you have learned in about 150 words.
Topic: List two of the things Carl Sagan mentions in his article “Twelve things I Wish They Taught Me at School” and explain why you think them important.
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Since then, I've learned a great deal. One of the most important things I've learned is how much there is to learn, and how much I don't yet know.
Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced.（ ）
[In the United States] Time is treated as if it were something almost tangible.（ ）
Rapport to most of us [Americans] is less important than performance.（ ）
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"We are slaves to nothing but the clock," it has been said.（ ）