Passage Three
Americans think a great deal about time. They constantly refer to time and the value of keeping busy. From childhood, they learn to value time, and [33]their language reflects this preoccupation with it. As children, they are taught to be on time for events and to do work on time. They learn that the price of committing a crime is to do time in prison. When they are having a good time, they say that time flies; they say sadly of someone who is dying that he is living on borrowed time. From the time of its beginning, [33]American English has reflected this preoccupation with time. Nowhere can this sense of time be seen more clearly than in the working place. Working Americans are bound to the clock. [34]It is a commonly held belief that one should balance work against a set time, for example an 8 hour day or a 40 hour week. Anything over these time limits is overtime, [34]and the worker should receive more money per hour for work done during overtime. Time during nonworking hours is also considered very precious. Some Americans feel they have a love/hate relationship with time. They love the comforts that progress has brought through work, [35]but they hate the bondage to the clock and the pressures of a time-oriented society. There is little doubt that many Americans feel they have become servants of the clock.

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. What does the speaker say about American English?
正確答案：D
解析：time為本文高頻核心詞，從原文開頭就提到time可知，該題答案一定也與“時間”有關。D基本上是原文的再現。且此句在錄音中間部分再次明確重述。
34. What will Americans commonly agree on according to the passage?
正確答案：A
解析：A中的be compensated是對原文receive more money的近義轉述。D與原文意思相反，B、C均未提及。
35. What do Americans dislike about their time-oriented society?
正確答案：B
解析：原文提到美國人對時間又愛又恨，后面具體解釋原因，答案依據轉折詞but后面的信息，是聽到的原詞。語義突出之處往往是考點所在。