答案：C

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文体 议论文 题材 社会文化 　　You and I agree to meet at 4：30.I show up at 4：33.I don't say anything，because that's close enough to satisfy our social__1__.Only after five minutes do you__2__me to say，"Sorry I'm late."At 10 minutes I owe you an__3__："The freeway exit was closed.I had to go four miles out of my way."After 20 minutes I have to make a full and serious__4__.After 40 minutes I'd better not__5__at all.

　　That sort of thing-so formally__6__and never explicitly stated-drives people from other cultures__7__.Anthropologists(人类专家)list the__8__things to cope with in a foreign land.Second only to the language barrier is the way we deal with__9__.

　　Now psychologists look at our__10__of time another way.They go into several countries and measure the__11__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__12__people take to answer questions.

　　Japanese keep a__13__of the fastest pace.Americans are a__14__second.Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the__15__.Italians give long answers to your questions.Indonesians don't__16__setting their bank clocks.

　　__17__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__18__，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.__19__，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__20__toward our 4：30 meeting.

　　[语篇解读]　本文是一篇议论文，谈论了不同国家的人对待时间的不同态度以及人们的生活节奏。

　　1．A.contract　　　　　　 B．connection

　　C．construction D．confidence

　　解析：根据上文的You and I agree to meet at 4：30.中的agree可知。"我"和你约定在4：30见面。故A项contract(约定；协议)正确。

　　答案：A

　　2．A.order B．intend

　　C．require D．expect

解析：根据上文our social________可知，这是个社交约定，因此，此处指的是社交