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No one knows why we sleep, but it’s certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days—they think less clearly, and they fall asleep during the working hours; some may have hallucinations(幻觉).
There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grown-ups sleep about 7 and a half hours each night and probably more than 60 per cent get between seven and eight hours. But perhaps eight per cent are quite happy with 5 hours or less, and four per cent or so find that they want ten hours or more. If you feel all right, you’re probably getting enough sleep. The important thing is not to worry how much other people get—their needs may be different. Exercise doesn’t seem to increase the need for sleep—office workers, for example, sleep for about as long as people doing physically active work.
Children sleep more than grown-ups—perhaps 14 to 18 hours soon after birth, going down to grown-up levels by early teenage. Sleep patterns also tend(倾向) to be different in the elderly, who may sleep less at night than they did when younger, find sleep getting more broken, and often make it a rule to sleep during the daytime.
小题1:According to the passage, some people are unable to think clearly because ___________ .
A.they have hallucinations
B.they feel sleepy during the working hours
C.they don’t have enough sleep
D.they are certain to be kept from going to bed
小题2:Which of the following is TRUE?
A.All grown-ups must have at least eight-hour sleep.
B.Most of grown-ups sleep for seven or eight hours.
C.Quite a few people need only 5 hours or less for them to sleep.
D.No grown-ups sleep more than ten hours.
小题3:Whether you have got enough sleep is judged by__________.
A.how many hours you have slept
B.how many hours you need to sleep
C.whether you do exercise and physical work
D.whether you feel fresh and energetic
小题4:According to the passage, a boy of 14 years old sleeps__________.
A.as long hours as a grown-up
B.much longer hours than a grown-up
C.for 14 hours each night
D.for less than 8 hours per night

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A 
解析

试题分析:睡眠对我们是非常重要的,睡眠不足会带来很多的问题,文章就不同的年龄阶段的睡眠时间和模式进行说明。
小题1:细节题:从文章第一段的句子:People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days—they think less clearly, and they fall asleep during the working hours; some may have hallucinations(幻觉).可知一些人不能清楚的思考是因为没有足够的睡眠,选C
小题2:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grown-ups sleep about 7 and a half hours each night and probably more than 60 per cent get between seven and eight hours.可知大部分成年人的睡眠是7到8小时,选B
小题3:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:If you feel all right, you’re probably getting enough sleep.可知是否有足够的睡眠是通过是否恢复体力,精力充沛判断的,选D
小题4:细节题:从文章第三段的句子:Children sleep more than grown-ups—perhaps 14 to 18 hours soon after birth, going down to grown-up levels by early teenage.可知一个14岁的男孩睡的时间和成年人一样长。选A  
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A woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctic, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes(冰川). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.
The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb it in any way. Many New Zealanders came to Peka Peka Beach to look at the elegant penguin. They were careful to keep their dogs away from it so it wouldn’t be frightened.
The public nicknamed the animal Happy Feet. Researchers started to notice that Happy Feet didn’t seem well. It turns out that he had been eating the sand from the beach, likely thinking it was snow.
The public raised more than 11,000 pounds for an operation to get the sand out of his stomach. The operation was a success, and Happy Feet was taken to a zoo in Wellington, NZ. A group of experts met to decide how to help Happy Feet return to the wild.
Last Sunday, they put him on a boat called the Tangaroa, in a specially built ice-filled box and took him out into the Southern Ocean, southeast of New Zealand. There, they released him into the ocean, which is his natural habitat. He took one last look at his human helpers and then dived into the ocean.
“Emperor penguins spend their first five years at sea,” said Peter Simpson of New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”
Happy Feet was fitted with a satellite transmitter(发射机)so they can monitor his progress using the Internet. So far, the trackers shows that he swam northeast for a little while before getting his bearings and heading south.
小题1:Where is the young penguin supposed to appear?
A.On the sunny beach.B.Near the Antarctic.
C.Inside the hole in the ice.D.In the depths of the ocean.
小题2:The public collected some money to______.
A.build a home for the penguin
B.get the sand out of the penguin’s belly
C.do some research on the penguin
D.return the penguin to his habitat
小题3:What does Peter Simpson mean by saying “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”?
A.The penguin needs no protection from human.
B.Human beings can do noting to help penguins.
C.No one knows what will happen to the penguins.
D.Whether the penguin can survive depends on himself.

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"Efficiency is the by-product of comfort," says Dr. Erwin Tichauer of New York University. To prove this____, Dr. Tichauer uses his capability to find_____ways to do things. _____, he felt that the traditional kind of pliers(钳子)______a better design. The usual____limited hand movement and used unnecessary force because it bent the_____. So he designed a pair of pliers to allow the wrist to remain in a comfortable position.
To improve the design of______and then make work easier, Dr. Tichauer____the old tools. He asks such questions as: why ____a stepladder have four legs____three are more stable? Why dose a screwdriver (螺丝刀) have to be made with straight handles? After testing his____, he has invented a new tool that causes less muscle injury and is more efficient. 
Tichauer is not interested in getting ____ from his inventions. In fact, he says, "We _____ people to steal from us. At New York University, we do not patent(注册专利)knowledge or invention."__ __companies have adopted some of his inventions.
As a biochemist, as well as inventor, Dr Techauer____the effect of stress on areas of the body. Even easy______work may put heavy stress on small areas of body and____causes a serious disease. Thus his studies of workers in factories who use the____tool all day long are extremely____in learning about the damage on human body? Dr. Techauer knows that he can not redesign the ____ so he redesigns the tool!
小题1:
A.argument B.impression C.statement D.expectation
小题2:
A.unusual B.easier C.new D.correct
小题3:
A.Especially B.What"s more C.Meanwhile D.For example
小题4:
A.followed B.showed C.needed D.proved
小题5:
A.design B.habits C.materials D.work
小题6:
A.body B.finger C.hand D.wrist
小题7:
A.pliers B.a tool C.a stepladder D.screwdrivers
小题8:
A.tests B.uses C.fixes D.destroys
小题9:
A.could B.will C.would D.must
小题10:
A.if B.because C.when D.once
小题11:
A.inventions B.theories C.tools D.questions
小题12:
A.recognized B.famous C.excited D.rich
小题13:
A.encourage B.prevent C.warn D.forgive
小题14:
A.Modern B.Research C.Commercial D.Industrial
小题15:
A.teaches B.studies C.produces D.discovers
小题16:
A.physical B.daily C.office D.research
小题17:
A.in time B.in addition C.immediately D.commonly
小题18:
A.wrong B.old C.same D.heavy
小题19:
A.suitable B.valuable C.logicalD.practical
小题20:
A.work B.study C.labor D.body

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Brenda Linson never goes anywhere without an empty spectacles case. It is as vital to her as her purse. Yet, she doesn’t wear glasses. The reason she cannot do without it is that she cannot read and she cannot write. If ever she gets into any situation where she might be expected to do either of these things, she fishes around in her bag for the spectacles case, finds it’s empty, and asks the person concerned to do the reading for her. Until a few months ago hardly anybody knew about her problem. Her husband didn’t know and her children didn’t know. The children still don’t.
She had many tactics for hiding her difficult—for example, never lingering near a phone at work, in case she had to answer it and might be required to write something down.
It has never occurred to the children that their mother cannot read. She doesn’t read them stories, but then their father doesn’t either, so they find nothing surprising in the fact. Similarly they just accept that Dad is the one who writes the sick notes and reads the school reports. Now that the elder boy Tom is quite a proficient reader, Brenda can skillfully get him to read any notes brought home from school simply by asking,“What’s that all about, then?”
Brenda’s husband never guessed the truth in ten years of marriage. For one thing, he insists on handling all domestic correspondence and bills himself. A salesman for a large company, he travels a great deal and so is not around so much to spot the truth. While he’s away Brenda cores with any situations by explaining that she cannot do anything until she’s discussed it with her husband.
Brenda was very successful in her job until recently. For the last five years she had worked as waitress at an expensive restaurant, and had eventually been promoted to head waitress. She kept the thing a secret there too, and got over the practical difficulties somehow.
小题1: Brenda’s children have never found out about her problem as__________.
A.she isn’t often at home.
B.they are too young to guess the truth.
C.they find it normal to ask their father for everything.
D.they think it natural that short-sighted people like their mother don’t do much reading or writing.
小题2:What most probably made Brenda try hard to hide her difficulty?
A. Her desire to be successful in her job.          
B. Her fear of losing face.
C. Her deceitful nature.                        
D. Both A and B.
小题3:Of the following suggested titles, which is the most appropriate?
A.Brenda and Her Family
B.A Woman Who Doesn’t Wear Glasses
C.A Woman with an Empty Spectacles Case
D.The Miserable Life of a Waitress

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It all began with a stop at a red light.
Kevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006 . While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.
“Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.”Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered (纠缠)her parents about inequity, insisting that she wanted to do something.
“What do you want to do?” her mom responded. “Sell our house?”
Warning! Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager. Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home.
Eventually, that’s what the family did. The project —crazy, impetuous (鲁莽的) and utterly inspiring — is written down in detail in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: “The Power of Half.” It’s a book that, frankly, I’d be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street.
At a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference — for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. In a column a week ago, it described neurological evidence from brain scans that unselfishness lights up parts of the brain normally associated with more primary satisfaction. The Salwens’ experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.
Mr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.
小题1:The best title for the passage should be “______”.
A.The Less, the Better
B.An Expected Satisfaction
C.Something We Can Live Without
D.Somewhat Crazy but Inspiring
小题2:What does the underlined word “inequity” most probably mean in Paragraph 3?
A.Unfairness.B.Satisfaction.
C.Personal attitude.D.Reasonable statement.
小题3: What does the underlined sentence “Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager.” means? ______
A.Never give a quick answer to an idealistic teenager.
B.Unless a child is realistic, never give an answer immediately.
C.Give an answer if the child is reasonable.
D.Don’t respond to a child"s demands firmly without consideration.
小题4: What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.The Salwens regretted selling their house.
B.The relationship between the family members of the Salwens is much closer.
C.Small houses can bring happiness.
D.The Salwens intend to buy another big house.
小题5:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Mercedes Coupe is only an ordinary car which is quite cheap.
B.Unselfishness has nothing to do with people’s primary satisfaction.
C.Hannah asked her parents to do something charitable and they sold their house.
D.The writer’s children asked him to sell their house.

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I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent  fate in court.
It happened in February about twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the time.
One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall.
It was about half past eleven when it happened. I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me. I thought he was going to ask me the time. Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me. At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.
“But what for?” I asked.
“Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence.” he said.
“What offence?” I asked.
“Theft.” he said.
“Theft of what?” I asked.
“Milk bottles,” he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!
“Oh,” I said.
It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps.
Then I made my big mistake. At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as part of the sixties’ “youth counterculture”. As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, “How long have you been following me?” in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage. I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable (品行不端的)character.
A few minutes later a police car arrived.
“Get in the back,” they said. “Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don’t move them.”
They got in on either side of me. It wasn’t funny any more.
At the police station they questioned me for several hours. I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation. When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I’d been looking for a job. “Aha,” I could see them thinking, “unemployed”.
Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates’ Court the following Monday. Then they let me go.
I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good lawyer. We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness. But he was never called on to give evidence. My “trial” didn’t get that far. The magistrate (法官) dismissed the case after fifteen minutes. I was free. The poor police had never stood a chance. The lawyer even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police.
And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the “right” accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good lawyer. Given the obscure nature of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my lawyer’s case quite obviously revolved (回转) around the fact that I had a “brilliant academic record”.
Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. “You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,” he said to me reproachfully (责备地).
What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged and said something like, “Look here, do you know who you’re talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record. How dare you arrest me!” Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way.
小题1:Judging from the first paragraph, the writer’s attitude towards his story is _______.
A.angryB.sad
C.amusedD.more than just one of the above
小题2:The first man who came up to him was ______.
A.a uniformed policemanB.a policeman in plainclothes
C.not a policemanD.a good joker
小题3:The court never asked the author’s English teacher to give evidence because _______.
A.the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only
B.the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court
C.the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage
D.he was found to be unqualified as a character witness
小题4:The author believes that he would most probably have been declared guilty if _______.
A.the magistrate had been less gentle
B.he had really been out of work
C.he had been born in a lower— class family
D.both B and C
小题5: In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if ______.
A.he had protested strongly at the time
B.he had begged to be allowed to go home
C.he hadn’t wandered aimlessly
D.he had tried to look cool
小题6:We can see from the passage that the author ______.
A.has broken the law only once
B.has never broken the law
C.has broken the law on more than one occasion
D.once broke the law without knowing it

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