"What Your Time Perspective?" / "Does Time Pass?"

According to the article “What’s Your Time Perspective?,” what is meant by the term “time perspective”?

• a person’s ability to see into the future

• how a person looks at the past, present, and future

• a person’s belief in the capability of traveling through time

• a person’s inability to distinguish the past from the present

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In “Does Time Pass?” Peter Dizikes explains Brad Skow’s theory of time. To what is this theory most clearly related?

• common sense

• historical accounts

• the laws of physics

• studies in natural history

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According to Brad Skow’s description of time in “Does Time Pass?,” which of the following statements are true about time? Choose two options.

• Events do not cease to exist.

• Time passes like a river flowing by.

• The future and the past can be altered.

• Past events still exist, but they are inaccessible.

• Only events that are happening now actually exist.

What is the most likely meaning of reminiscing as it is used in this sentence from “What’s Your Time Perspective?” Choose the meaning based on context clues.

Learning to switch time perspectives allows us to fully take part in everything we do, whether it’s a relaxed evening ... or reminiscing about long-ago events with an old friend.

• trying new things

• forgetting the past

• having a good time

• recalling past experiences

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What does context suggest is the meaning of hedonistic as it is used in this quotation from “What’s Your Time Perspective?”

The “present-hedonistic” type. You are dominated by pleasure-seeking impulses, and are reluctant to postpone feeling good for the sake of greater gain later.

• devoted to the future

• slow to act or respond

• inconsiderate or thoughtless

• committed to the pursuit of happiness

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Use context clues to determine the meaning of par as it is used in this sentence from “Does Time Pass?”

Skow is more impressed by an alternative idea called the “moving spotlight” theory, which may allow that the past and future exist on a par with the present.

• equal basis

• lesser extent

• greater degree

• higher importance

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Read this scenario.

It’s Friday afternoon, and some students in Eric’s class are planning their evening. They decide to play basketball after school and then head to a pizza place afterward. They invite Eric to come along. Eric does not have any plans; however, he has a chemistry test coming up next week, and he wants to get a head start on an essay that’s due next Friday. He decides to go home and study. He worries that he’ll fall behind if he doesn’t get busy.

What type of time perspective does Eric have? Base your answer on the types of time perspective described in “What’s Your Time Perspective?”

• “past-positive” type

• “past-negative” type

• “future-focused” type

• “present-hedonistic” type

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Which sentence is the best statement of the main idea of “What’s Your Time Perspective?”

• People like to think about the past, which allows them to enjoy all over again good experiences with friends or successes they have had.

• People should learn to live more in the present because the past is gone and the future will always be unpredictable and beyond their control.

• People try to look forward and plan ahead, but for many that future-

  facing perspective is impossible to maintain, thus limiting their success

  and future happiness.

• People have different ways of thinking about the past, present, and future; their perspectives affect how they live, whether they succeed, and whether they are happy.

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Read the following excerpt from “Does Time Pass?”

“The block universe theory says you’re spread out in time, something like the way you’re spread out in space,” Skow says. “We’re not located at a single time.”

Which of the following is the best restatement of Skow’s point in the excerpt?

• We exist at many different times all at once.

• We can take up each other’s time, just as we take up space.

• We may lose track of what time it is or how much time has passed.

• We are wrong to think of the present as different from the past or the

  future.

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