Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant (不相關(guān)的). A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer; in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more “flexible,” is often debated. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of  time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the “l(fā)aw of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years—but unless we meet the truant officer (學監(jiān)), we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents’ demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with “extra pay for overtime working,” but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes (構(gòu)成)“overtime” is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight-saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how we organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law — as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
【小題1】By saying “Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be”, the writer means that_____ .

A.work time is equal to rest time
B.many people have a day off on Monday
C.it is hard for people to decide when to rest
D.the line between work time and rest time is unclear
【小題2】The author raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people
A.fail to make full use of their timeB.enjoy working overtime for extra pay
C.a(chǎn)re unaware of the law of timeD.welcome flexible working hours
【小題3】According to the passage, most children tend to believe that they go to school because they ______.
A.need to acquire knowledgeB.have to obey their parents
C.need to find companionsD.have to observe the law
【小題4】What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Our life is governed by the law of time.
B.How to organize time is not worth debating.
C.New ways of using time change our society.
D.Our time schedule is decided by social customs.


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】A

解析【小題1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第1段Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.說明工作和休息的分界線現(xiàn)在變得不明顯了,故選擇D。A“工作時間與休息時間相等”,B“很多人在星期一休息”,C“人們很難判斷在什么時候休息”都與真實含義不符。
【小題2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第2段描述,作者提出這樣的問題是想說明人們不清楚時間規(guī)律,而并非“不能充分利用時間”、“喜歡工作以得到額外報酬”或“歡迎富有彈性的工作時間”。
【小題3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第3段…we should go to school due to social custom and parents’ demand rather than to the law可知學生們認為上學是迫于社會習慣或家長的要求而不是出于時間規(guī)律,應(yīng)選擇B。
【小題4】主旨大意題。本文探討了時間規(guī)律的變化以及由此帶來的人們生活起居、工作學習的變化。因此選擇A“我們的生活有時間規(guī)律掌控”符合文章主題。B“怎樣安排時間不值得討論”,C“利用時間的新方法改變了我們社會”,D“我們的時間日程由社會習慣決定”都不合文章主題或表達不正確。

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