题目内容：

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

You and I agree to meet at four-thirty. I show up at 4:33. I don’t say anything, because that’s close enough to satisfy our social   _____ . Only after five minutes do you   _____  me to say, “Sorry I’ m late.” At ten minutes I owe you an _____  : “The freeway exit was closed. I had to go four miles out of my way.” After twenty minutes I have to make a full and serious _____ . After forty minutes I’d better not _____ at all.

That sort of thing — so formally _____ and never explicitly stated — drives people from other cultures   _____. Anthropologists (人类学家）list the   _____ things to cope with in a foreign land. Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with _____.

Now psychologists look at our   _____ of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the   _____  of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city residents walk. They time transactions (交易) in banks and post offices. They see _____ people take to answer questions.

Japanese keep a _____  of the fastest pace. Americans are a _____ second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the _____ . Italians give long answers to your questions. Indonesians don’t _____ setting their bank clocks.

______ American cities, Boston and Kansas City are fastest. New York is up there, of course, but we keep a faster pace here in Houston. California’s “slow -pace ”reputation is _____ , as the slowest pace of all is kept in Los Angeles.

In a technology-dense world, the tension of life has changed our view of time. _____ , if we are smart enough, we should not live by the clock only when we have to.

Now it’s 4:55. I’m walking _____ , towards our 4:30 meeting.

1.A. contract    B. connection   C. construction   D. confidence

2.A. order       B. intend       C. require         D. expect

3.A. action      B. announcement  C. explanation    D. eruption

4.A. apology    B. excuse        C. option         D. opinion

5.A. look up     B. stay up      C. keep up        D. show up

6.A. observed    B. introduced   C. impressed       D. imitated

7.A. immoral   B. unaware      C. crazy           D. thrilled

8.A. fastest     B. toughest      C. strangest       D. funniest

9.A. study      B. time          C. budget          D. transport

10.A. view       B. comment       C. contact        D. phenomenon

11.A. rhyme     B. pace         C. ratio          D. session

12.A. how often  B. how far     C. how soon        D. how long

13.A. tradition  B. note          C. record         D. secret

14.A. narrow    B. shallow      C. close          D. severe

15.A. mood      B. address       C. reference      D. list

16.A. take over B. care about    C. reply to        D. answer for

17.A. Off       B. Among         C. Despite        D. Besides

18.A. ruined    B. accomplished C. erased         D. deserved

19.A. However    B. Therefore     C. Thus            D. Rather

20.A. consistently B. unconsciously C. unhurriedly  D. anxiously