【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 hotocopy。 videocassette recorder。 1) Americans not only wear watches but also have ______ at home. 2) Many familiar sayings reflect the American obsession with __________________. 3) When Americans have to wait, they tend to bee ________. 4) Americans buy many kinds of machines ranging from __________ to __________ for the office because of the desire to ___________ and _______________. 5) Videocassette recorder gives Americans a kind of ________ over time. On the one hand, they will not miss __________。 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。 latest。 novel。 uptodate。 newborn . the emerging technology。 the newly emerging force。 emerging nations emerge (v.)。 emergent (adj.)。 emergence (n.)；emergency (n.) merge。 submerge chronobiology: chrono (or chron) : chronology。 chronological。 chronicle (n./v.)，chronotherapy, chronograph。 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。t scheduled the ing week yet. He was scheduled to arrive on Monday evening. time addicts: those who are addicted to time There are no lengths to which an addict will not go to obtain his drug. a work addict。 a football addict。 a drug addict The children are addicted to puter games. addiction: n. addictive: adj. 5. Almost all living things in our world carry their own biological clocks synchronized with the rhythms of nature. () 6. Pioneering studies in Germany reported that when people were put together in groups isolated from external cues of light, temperature and humidity, their own plex internal timekeeping rhythms became desynchronized。 then they resynchronized in unison (=in tune。 in harmony). () pioneering: groundbreaking。 revolutionary。 initial。 original . At the age of 20, he wrote a pioneering novel about a desert adventure. pioneer: v. amp。 n. . Cui Jian is un