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　　People nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited. Compared with early generations we spend more and more time working and have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursues. But this premise turns out to be an illusion. The most comprehensive data from major Time Use Service suggests, if anything, Americans today have more free time than the early generations. The number of hours we work has not changed much, but we spend less time now on home tasks. So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past. so why do we feel like time so scare. One problem is that time becomes more valuable and time becomes more worth money. we feel like we have less of it. workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast. In one experiment, people were told to play the role of consultant and bill their time by either nine dollars an hour or ninety dollars an hour. When people billed their time by ninety dollars an hour they report feeling far more priced for time. Thinking about our time as money, changes are our behavior as well. in one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less times chatting with the other patrons and more time working. Those who are thinking their time did reverse spending time socializing instead of working.

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　　23. what does the speaker say now people feel about time?

　　24. what do the data from time use service show?

　　25. what happen when we think our time about our as money?

　　23. 点评：本题就是对文章第一句话进行提问， “People nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited.” 对应选项A. Time has becomes more limited.

　　24. 点评：本题可以直接得出答案，考察信息为 “ …data … suggests… Americans today have more free time than the early generations” 对应选项B. Americans today have more free time than earlier generations.

　　25. 点评：本题考察的是文中所提到的一个实验的结论，即 “Thinking about our time as money, changes are our behavior as well.” 对应选项D. Our behavior is changed.

　　【短文理解综合点评】：第1、3篇答案比较直接，大体符合“所听基本即所选”原则，且并未出现逆序现象为难考生;第2篇文章难度很大，需要联系主题来理解细节，具有较强区分度，考生的能力高下立现。

　　复合式听写答案：

　　26. taking into consideration

　　27. literary

　　28. imposed

　　29. anticipate

　　30. violations

　　31. financial

　　32. avenue

　　33. amended

　　34. in the wake of

　　35. interpret

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