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(2019·武汉毕业班5月训练)For years, my time spent in the shower could have got me a mention in Guinness World Records as the shortest time taken to bathe．I hurried up during this process.
One day, however, while at a party, I heard an artist friend telling everybody that his idea came while he was having a shower. “What about you？” he asked. “Don’t you get your creative thoughts from the same place？”
“I’m in and out in a hurry，” I told him proudly. “I have no time to waste！”
“What a pity，” he said. “That’s the place where you need to slow down; plenty of great thoughts come from there！” I tried it out. I slowed down the whole process, started enjoying the warm water, taking a little longer to soap myself and even spending more time just enjoying the process, and realized how much I had missed in hurrying up all these years.
A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from and how she sought to convince her that she needed to find ways to relax. She gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques, and encouraged her to watch it right away. Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape．“It was good，” she said，“but I don’t need it．”
“But it’s a 70minute video，”the woman replied. “You couldn’t have watched the whole thing．”
“Yes, I did，” her friend said．“I put it in fastforward！”
A major social problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work. We swallow fast food. We complain that we don’t have enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and comment，“Oh, how the years flew by！”Then we realize the heavy price we have paid for traveling fast.
Symptoms of Hurry Sickness include stress and anxiety, bad relationships, poor work performance and even disease. Some people don’t survive it. What’s the cure? Slow down, for life is so short and precious that we must live it well.
【解题导语】 本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章通过叙述“我”在一次聚会中与一位艺术家朋友谈及洗澡的时间问题，向我们介绍了21世纪存在的一个显著的社会问题是匆忙症，从而告诉我们：生命是如此短暂和珍贵，我们必须好好地慢下来生活。
1．What was the advantage of taking a shower in the eyes of the artist friend?
A．Time was saved． B．Nothing was missed.
C．Great ideas flew away. D．Creative thoughts came.
D 解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中的“his idea came while he was having a shower”和“Don’t you get your creative thoughts from the same place？”可知， 在那位艺术家朋友的眼里，洗澡时会产生创造性的想法。
2．What was the trouble with the woman’s friend?
A．She felt stressed.
B．She found the tape useless.
C．She found no way to relax.
D．She watched the tape too fast.
A 解析：细节理解题。根据第五段中的“A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from”可知， 那位女士的朋友感到压力很大。
3．What is the major social trouble people face in the 21st century in the writer’s eyes?
A．People run fast to work.
B．Everything is done in a hurry.
C．People don’t have enough time.
D．Time flies without being noticed.
B 解析：细节理解题。根据第八段中的“A major social problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness．”可知， 在作者看来， 21世纪人们面临的一个主要的社会问题是一切都是匆匆忙忙的。
4．How can the problem be settled?
A．By slowing down.
B．By learning to survive.
C．By developing friendship.
D．By performing good work.
A 解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“Some people don’t survive it．What’s the cure? Slow down, for life is so short and precious that we must live it well．”可知， 我们可以通过放慢脚步来解决这个问题。
