题型:语法填空(语篇) 题类: 难易度:困难
广东省佛山市顺德区重点中学2023-2024学年高三上学期12月月考英语试题
Machines work well at a constant speed —and the faster the better.Whether they are spinning cotton dealing with numbers,regular,repetitive actions are what they excel at.
Increasingly,our world is being designed by machines and for machines.We adapt to machines and hold ourselves to their standards:People (judge)by the speed at which they respond, not the quality of their response."Always on"becomes something to take pride .When I ask people they are doing,they almost always answer "busy".Ticking things off the "to do"list becomesmeans of defining ourselves. (occupy)if not with work then with family or our social networks,most of us feel exhausted.
A few years ago,I became very interested in what it meant (pause).I started to notice where pauses show up in my own work and life.For example,I realized when I was writing,a short walk was a(n) (effective)way to focus than concentrating harder.The small walk acted as a pause, (enable)me to rest,reflect or refresh,appreciate and break a block in my (creative).I realized that pause is not nothing!
A minute eating ice-cream is not the same as a minute doing push-ups.Even time itself isn't a uniform raw material —as the physics of Einstein shows.
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