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Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. West Virginians’ lack of sleep was about double the national rate, perhaps a side effect of health problems such as obesity(肥胖), experts said.
Nearly 1 in 5 West Virginians said they did not get a single good night’s sleep in the previous month. The national average was about 1 in 10, according to a federal health survey. Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma also were notably above average with nearly 1 in 7 people reporting in a lack of sleep. In contrast, North Dakota was below average, with only 1 in 13 reporting that degree of sleeplessness. Health officials do not know the exact reasons for the differences.
In the survey, people weren’t required to answer the question why they were not able to get enough rest or sleep. But experts noted several possible explanations: West Virginia ranks at or near the bottom of the nation in several important measurements of health, including obesity, smoking, heart disease and the proportion of adults with disabilities.
Studies have increasingly found that sleeping problems often occurred among people with certain health problems, including obesity. “You would expect to see poorer sleep within a chronically (慢性地) diseased population,” noted Dr Ronald Chervin, a sleep disorders expert in University of Michigan.
Financial stress and work shifts(倒班)can play roles in sleeplessness, too, Chervin added. He suggested those may be contributing factors in West Virginia, an economically depressed state with tens of thousands of people working in coal mining.
The report was based on results of an annual telephone survey of more than 400,000 Americans, including at least 3,900 in each state. The survey did not include people who use only cellphones.
小题1:What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (No more than 15 words.)
小题2:What does the underlined word “notably” in Paragraph 2 mean? (No more than 3 words.)
小题3:What was the possible reason for the high rate of sleeplessness in West Virginia according to Paragraph 3? (No more than 12 words.)
小题4:List three factors that contribute to sleeplessness based on the passage.
(No more than 8 words.)
①______________________②________________________③______________________
小题5:How was the research carried out? (No more than 10 words.)
答案
小题1:West Virginians suffer from lack of sleep the most perhaps due to health problems.
小题2:Highly
小题3:West Virginia had a low level of several important measurements of health.
小题4:①being too fat ②financial stress ③work shifts
小题5:By interviewing over 400,000 Americans on the telephone.
解析
核心考点
试题【阅读下面短文,并根据题目要求用英语回答问题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia i】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
What attracted her to take up boxing was the unusual sight of two women in the ring on the television screen when she was about to watch a Mike Tyson fight five years ago. She was very excited and said to herself, “I can do that. ”
Laila’s father would prefer her not to take up the dangerous sport. Johnny McClain, her husband and manager (former boxer himself) feels the same way. Even though both the men in her life worry about her, they’re 100 percent supportive. “They don’t want me to get hurt, ” she says.
Long before entering the ring, Laila was a fighter. Being the daughter of an outstanding boxer made her an easy target for high school kids to see how tough she was. They, not she, failed in the test. For the public, her biggest test took place last summer in the New York State when she took on Jacqui Frazier Lyde, the daughter of Joe Frazier, her father’s most famous opponent (对手) during the 1970s.
That fight provided the biggest shot in the arm that women’s boxing has received. News reporters poured in. Some called it “Ali/Frazier-GenerationⅡ”. No match involving women had ever attracted so much attention. Laila had a narrow victory in the fight.
Like it or not, she accepts the fact that she is the face of female boxing. And she hopes that her name and fame will help get the public to take it more seriously.
The name Ali has and always will bring her attention. But she is determined to make her own mark on opponents’ faces as well as in boxing history books. She says, “I want women’s boxing to get its due respect. ”
小题1:Laila took up boxing because of ________.
A.her father’s great status | B.a Mike Tyson fight |
C.her admiration for her father | D.her interest in boxing |
A.Laila’s husband is still a boxer now |
B.Laila wants to make contributions to the sport of boxing |
C.Laila’s husband doesn’t think boxing is a dangerous sport |
D.when Laila was in high school, she often failed in the fight with other kids |
A.That fight proved that Laila was a person of physical power. |
B.That fight made female boxing more popular. |
C.That fight provided people with a good change to enjoy themselves. |
D.Laila made her first public appearance in that fight. |
A.A female boxer—Laila Ali | B.The best-known fight |
C.Ali/Frazie-GenerationⅡ | D.Muhammad Ali and his daughter |
Now the woman was taken to a room for questioning. There it was found that the soles of the shoes were hollow(中空的). They were opened. Some diamonds fell out on the floor. Their total weight was 3377 carats(克拉).
The young woman broke down in tears. Then she told her story. For years she had dreamed of coming to live in America, she said. At last she had managed to get the papers she needed to come to the U.S. Then a strange man called on her. He said he would pay for her trip and give her one hundred dollars. All she had to do was to smuggle the diamonds past the U.S. Customs. The man gave her the shoes and also bought her a plane ticket. Just before she got on the plane, he gave her an envelope. He said that it was the hundred dollars he had promised.
The weeping woman handed the envelope to Koeler. He tore it open. There was only eighteen dollars. She was cheated. In the end the woman was trialed and sentenced to eighteen months in prison for her part in the smuggling.
60. Where did the story happen?
A. At an airport. B. At a police station.
C. At a railway station. D. In a custom office in China.
61. The underlined word “smuggling ” in this passage most probably means_____.
A. 偷税 B. 盗窃 C. 走私 D. 交换
62. The woman had agreed to smuggle the diamonds______.
A. in order to get the papers she needed B. in hope of selling them
C. in return for some money and a free tripD. so as to share them with the man
63. Which is the right order of the events(事件)given in the passage?
a. She wanted to live in the U.S.
b. She arrived in the U.S.
c. She was given an envelope.
d. She was given a plane ticket.
e. She was found out.
f. She was put into prison.
A. a, d, c, b, e, f B. a, b, c, e, f, d
C. a, c, d, b, e, f D. a, b, d, c, e, f
请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填l个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found an answer as part of a study.
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler based the study on the emotional health of almost five thousand people. They used information gathered over a period of twenty years, until 2003, in the Framingham Heart Study. That study began sixty years ago in Framingham, Massachusetts, to learn more about the risks of heart attack and stroke.
The new study found that friends of happy people had a greater chance of being happy themselves. And the smaller the physical distance between friends, the larger the effect they had on each other’s happiness.
For example, a person was twenty percent more likely to feel happy if a friend living within one and a half kilometers was also happy. Having a happy neighbor who lived next door increased an individual’s chance of being happy by thirty-four percent. The effects of friends’ happiness lasted for up to a year.
The researchers found that happiness really is contagious(可蔓延的,传染的). Sadness also spread among friends, but not as much as happiness.
People removed by as much as three degrees of separation still had an effect on a person’s happiness. Three degrees of separation means the friend of a friend of a friend.
The study showed that having an extra five thousand dollars increased a person’s chances of becoming happier by about two percent. But the researchers found that the influence of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.
Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do.
The findings appeared in the British Medical Journal. The National Institute on Aging in the United States helped pay for the study.
The study is described as the first to demonstrate the indirect spread of happiness. In other words, that your emotions can be affected by someone you do not directly know.
Earlier studies by the two researchers described the effects of social networks on obesity and efforts to stop smoking. The new study shows that happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional virus — a virus people would be happy to catch.
The (81) ________ of the study | To find what makes people happier. |
The (82) ________ of the study | Having extra money meaning (83) _______ chances of becoming happier. |
People after marriage or working together not (84) _______ a person a lot. | |
Friends’ happiness having an (85) _________ on a person. ★ Happiness as well as sadness (86) _________ among friends. ★ (87)________ less than a year. ★ Three degrees of (88) _________ playing a role, too. | |
(89) ___________ | (90) _________ happiness affecting a person more. |
Ⅲ 阅读(共两节。满分40分)
第一节 阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分, 满分30分)
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as Mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk”, he said, “is for Elizabeth” 。
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me, she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional”. But she lived “on the surface”.
As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.
My hope turned to disappointment, the little interest, finally, peace — it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
Now the present of her desk told me, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside — a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my desk, in any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
31. The writer began to love her mother’s desk _______.
A. after Mother died B. before she became a writer
C. when she was a child D. when Mother gave it to her
32. The passage shows about _______.
A. Mother wrote her daughter in careful words
B. Mother cared much about her daughter in words
C. Mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done
D. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter
33. The word “gulf” in the 4th paragraph means _______.
A. part of the sea going far in land
B. free talks between mother and daughter
C. different ideas between the mother and daughter
D. deep understanding between the old and the young
34. What did Mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgiveness?
A. She had never received the letter.
B. She read the letter again and again till she died.
C. For years, she often talked about the letter.
D. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in her life.
35. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. My letter to Mother B. Mother and children
C. My Mother’s Desk D. Talks between Mother and Me
第二节信息匹配(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读下列应用文:
A
Self
It is a handbook devoted to women"s overall physical and mental health. Every issue (每期) has many usable articles, in which wearable clothes are mixed and matched on non-models and the "Eat-right Road Map", with tips on how to eat properly.
B
English Learning
This book is written for the students who are learning English as a foreign language or a second language. The writer - Phillips says it will be of great help to whoever reads it carefully.
C
Wired
This magazine is designed for leaders in the field of information engineering including top managers and professionals (专业人员) in the computer, business, design and education industries. It often carries articles on how technology changes people"s lives.
D
Instyle
It is a guide to the lives and lifestyles of the world"s famous people. The magazine covers the choices people make about their homes, their clothes and their free time activities. With photos and articles, it opens the door to these people"s homes, families, parties and weddings, offering ideas about beauty, fitness and in general, lifestyles.
E
History
The book tells us something about the history of English-speaking peoples. It says something until the time when the New World was discovered by Christopher Columbus.
F
Discover
It"s a book devoted to the wonders of modern science, written for the educated readers. It tells many of the same stories professionals read in "Scientific American".
请阅读以下购书者的信息,为他们匹配合适的图书。
46. Mrs. Green is a housewife and she tries her best to keep pace with the fashion.
47. Mr. Will is the head of a big IT company and he hopes to gain as much information about his own field as he can.
48. Henry is a French student who considers English a headache but wants to make progress in it.
49. David is a freshman (新生) in Oxford University and he is crazy about the mysteries of nature.
50. Professor King is teaching at a university. He is interested in the English history more than anything else.
购书者 图书
46. Mrs. Green
A.Self 47. Mr. Will | B.English Learning 48. Henry | C.Wired 49. David | D.Instyle |
F. Discover
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