Unit 3 Life in the future 单元测试B卷-2021-2022学年高二英语人教新课标必修五

必修五 Unit 3 Life in the future 单元测试B卷 一、阅读理解 A     When it’s five o’clock, people leave their office. The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when the clocks tell them they're done.     These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cellphones and computers. That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New research shows that clock-based work schedules get in the way of creativity.     Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours, for example, a meeting from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m. , research from 10 a. m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish. They work down the list, and each task starts when the previous task is completed. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.     What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experime