2008年高考英语江苏卷 - 阅读理解A

What time is it? Most people are pretty accurate in their answer. And if you don’t know for sure, it’s a very likely that you can find out. There may be a watch on your wrist, there may be a clock on the wall, desk, or computer screen; or maybe you’re riding in a car that has a clock in the dashboard.
几点了？大多数人的回答都相当准确。如果你真的不知道，你也很可能会找出来。手腕上可能有一块手表，墙上、桌子或电脑屏幕上可能有一个时钟；或者你正在开的车上有带时钟的仪表板。

Even if you don’t have a timepiece of some sort nearby, your body keeps its own beat. Humans have an internal clock that regulates the beating of our heart, the pace of our breathing, the discharge of chemicals within our bloodstream, and many other bodily functions.
即使你身边没有某种计时器，你的身体也会保持自己的节拍。人类有一个内部时钟来调节我们的心跳，呼吸节奏，血液中化学物质的排出，以及很多其他的身体功能。

Time is something from which we can’t escape. Even if we ignore it, it’s still going by, ticking away, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour. So the main issue in using your time well is, “Who’s in charge?” We can allow time to slip by and let it be our enemy. Or we can take control of it and make it our ally.
时间无法逃避。即使我们忽略它，它仍然在一秒一秒、一分一分、一小时一小时地流逝。所以善用时间的主要问题是，“谁负责？”我们可以让时间溜走，让它成为我们的敌人。或者我们可以控制它，让它成为我们的盟友。

By taking control of how you spend your time, you’ll increase your chances of becoming a more successful student. Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time you’ll have to spend on your outside interests.
通过控制自己的时间，你将更有可能成为更成功的学生。也许更重要的是，你越善于管理花在学习上的时间，你就有更多的时间花在课外兴趣上。

The aim of time management is not to schedule every moment so we become slaves of a timetable that governs every waking moment of the day. Instead, the aim is to make informed choices as to how we use our time. Rather than letting the day go by, largely without our awareness, what we are going to discuss next can make us better able to control time for our own purposes.
时间管理的目的不是安排好每一个时刻，让我们成为支配一天中每一个清醒时刻的时间表的奴隶。相反，我们的目标是对如何利用时间做出明智的选择。我们下一步要讨论的如何让我们更好地为自己的目的控制时间，而不是让一天基本上毫无意识地逝去。