【正文】 r they scored a goal at the eleventh hour/ in the nick of time. 6) I will never in a million years understand why Anne married Bob. 7)When I start surfing on the , I __________ (完全忘了時間 ). take one?s time。 stand the test of time。 The time is ripe for …。 A stitch in time saves nine. Our theater department decided to produce Anton Chekhov?s The Seagull, I was interested to see how students in the Theater 100 Class, most of whom were from other majors, would react to Chekhov?s work. Would this 19thcentury Russian dramatist appeal to them? Would they understand and accept the plexities of his characters? The morning after the opening night, my questions were answered. I overheard one student say to a friend, “If I found out I was going to die, I?d go back to see The Seagull. …” ? What is his implication? “… Even though I had only 30 minutes to live, it would seem like seven hours.” Right. Sometimes time seems to pass slowly whereas there are also occasions when time seems to pass quickly. Now please discuss with each other occasions when time hangs heavy (=tends to pass slowly or quickly). It is advisable that you give as much information as possible. Talking about Punctuality We now have a lot of devices to remind us of time, such as the clock, the wristwatch, the puter and the cell phone. Still, some of us slip into the habit of being late for an appointment or class. Have you any suggestions for those who are always late? How to Take Your Time Listen to a passage about time management and plete the following sentences with the information you get. highpowered。 be onto somebody/ something。 house appliances。 on the other hand, they can avoid all _________________ and thus actually save time. 1. How a person thinks about time can kill him, according to Dossey, a pioneer in the emerging science of chronobiology, the study of how time interacts with life. () emerging: adj. fresh。 newborn . the emerging technology。 emergence (n.)；emergency (n.) merge。 chronic, synchronize … with … . The sound on a film must synchronize with the action in dubbing. It was virtually impossible to synchronize our lives so as to take holidays and weekends together. synchronization (in synchronization with: in tune with) synchronized diving/ swimming desynchronize lipsync or lipsynch, etc. 2. One of the most mon ills in our society, he says, is “time sickness”, a sense of time pressure and hurry that causes anxiety and tension. () the social ills of urban life measles and other ills of childhood the various ills of life 3. Dossey has discovered that these and other stressinduced ills can often be successfully treated by using simple techniques to change how a person thinks about time. (－ 14) If you have exerciseinduced asthma, you may experience breathing difficulty within 520 minutes after exercise. As a result, alcoholinduced sleep prevents you from getting the deep sleep you need since alcohol keeps you in the lighter stages of sleep. 4. Dr. Dossey became interested in time and health when he noticed how many patients insisted on having watches with them in the hospital, even though they had no schedules to keep. () ahead of schedule behind schedule finish … to the schedule: finish … ahead of time on schedule have a tight schedule They were all time addicts, taught since childhood to schedule their lives by society’s clock, and all felt lost without the security of a timepiece. () I haven39。 then they resynchronized in unison (=in