题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
浙江省温州市苍南县金乡卫城中学2020-2021学年高二下学期英语3月第一次月考试卷(含听力音频)
You may not consider yourself the patient type. Maybe your first-grade teacher pointed this out when you were pulling the door open before the bell even sounded. As a grown-up, maybe you press the "close door" button in the elevator many times. You're not alone. Impatience has become a sign of a troubled society.
The time we save to get to our destination faster is not worth the price we pay for our health. As we all know, in traffic making rash decisions can send yourself and others to hell. In addition, there are plenty of links between impatient people and many health issues.
A 2011 study, for example, suggests it may even be making us fat. If you are willing to give up present satisfaction for future benefits, it shows you are the patient type. If, however, you want your satisfaction right now regardless of future benefits, you are going to have that extra dessert or that extra ice cream. It's a sign of impatience. You don't need to do a lot of research to link impatience to high blood pressure and even heart disease. Besides, being impatient could cause anxiety. And if you're constantly anxious, your sleep could be affected, too.
So learning to be patient is important. The good news is that we can all learn to be patient. The first thing to do is to recognize that you have a problem. Impatience usually happens during several situations. One of them is that your environment isn't conforming (符合) to your expectations. Another is that you're not conforming to your expectations of yourself.
There are all kinds of every-day situations that test patience. Once you've found that cause, though, it will be a lot easier to break the bad habit. Most importantly, once we understand what makes us impatient isn't within our control, we can change the way we understand that situation. If you've made it, congratulations. You're already on your way.
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