Sleep is something we all do. But some people need to sleep more than others. Babies sleep most of the time. Children in school sleep about ten to twelve hours a night. Most grown-ups sleep only seven or eight hours. 1.
All parts of our bodies have to rest after they work. Our arms need a rest after we lift heavy things. When we run fast, our legs work hard. They get tired. We have to rest them. Our brains work hard, too. 2.72 We can sit quite still and rest our arms and legs. But our brains aren’t resting. They go right on thinking as long as we are awake.
Our brains slow down a bit when we sleep and dream. 3. Instead of thinking wide-awake thought, our brains make up dreams. Some dreams are very pleasing. Some are not. Most of the time we forget them when we wake up.
Scientists have tried to find out what would happen if people were not allowed to sleep. They asked some people not to go to bed. The people stayed up all night and all the next day. They stayed up the next night, too and the day after. They played games. But they made mistakes. They forgot things. 4. . The people grew rude and mean. They became angry with their friends. Finally they were too tired to stand up. The moment they sat down, they fell asleep.
Scientists found that if people are not allowed to sleep, they act in an unusual way.
5. But we do know that we need it to stay well.
So tonight have a good sleep. Lie down under the covers. Shut your eyes. Let your thoughts travel about. Soon you’ll stop thinking. You’ll be asleep.
A. But even as we sleep our brains are doing some work.
B. It was hard for their tired brains to work.
C. When we are awake, they help us pay attention to the world around us.
D. No one knows quite surely why sleep is so good for us.
E. Good sleep helps to improve one’s memory.
F. But babies, children and grown-ups ----all of us need to have our sleep.
Years after throwing a bottle-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man’s childhood message was found and returned to his mother.
Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old boy, Joshua Baker, wrote the message, folded and put it in an empty container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February in a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned after a serving in the Middle East as a US marine. “I think he was just letting us know he was OK and keep doing what we are doing.” Holbrook said.
The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th anniversary of its being thrown into the lake. It was found by one of Baker’s closest friends, Steve Lieder, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when Lieder looked down and saw the bottle. He broke it open and found the note inside.
“My name is Joshua Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/98.” They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.
She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why he didn’t put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current.
“I still remember the day he wrote it, ” Holbrook said. “I couldn’t understand why he threw I in the lake. No one would never see it again. Now I know.”
1.What was Joshua Baker when he died in motor vehicle accident in California?
A. An official B. A soldier C. A worker D. A teacher
2. Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage?
A. The man threw the bottle into the lake without any purpose.
B. The man didn’t put the bottle into the nearby river because it had a strong current.
C. Not until recently did his mother understand why he put the bottle into the lake.
D. The man made the bottle-up note so as to let his parents know he was OK.
3.The best title for this passage would be___.
A. A man’s Bottle Message Found After His Death
B. A Ridiculous and Unbelievable Bottle Message
C. A Strange Bottle-up Note Appearing In a Lake
D. An Important Childhood Message 11 Years After His Death
A patient came to see me about the stress in her life. She described all the things she had to do －one was to make her bed－from the moment she woke up until she flew out of the door for work. I suggested she experiment by not making her bed for two weeks. She was shocked, probably thinking I’d been raised by wolves in a forest. However, she went along with my idea.
Two weeks later she went into my office beaming. She had left her bed unmade for the first time in 42 years－and nothing bad had happened. “And you know what?” she said. “I don’t dry my dishes anymore, either.”
This woman had made two major breakthroughs (突破). One was discovering that she had choices in her life that she had never seen before. The other was giving herself permission to be less that perfect. This story shows an important principle (原理) about managing time: No one can do it all. Each of us has to make choices and accept trade – offs. The problem is, many people choose in ways that put themselves and their health last. They take better care of their houses and cars than they do of themselves. They put everyone else’s needs ahead of their own.
So what is the solution? There’s an easy way. Decide what you want in your life, and put that first. On a daily basis, that should include regular meals, enough sleep and time with your family. Exercise, leisure, friendships and hobbies should also be regular aspects of life. The point is to do something for yourself every day. The choice is yours: whatever makes you feel good about yourself and your life. Take a nap. Take a walk. Take time to play the piano. Stop bringing your briefcase home from the office. Stop keeping your house as clean as your mother kept hers. Fill more of your time with want – to – dos instead of have – to – dos.
1.What is the solution to the problem of managing time?
A．Doing more exercises every day. B．Taking time to visit friends regularly.
C．Stopping making bed occasionally. D．Doing what you want to do first.
2.What does the word “beaming” in Line 1, Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Worrying B．Smiling C．Depressed D．Luckily
3.What is the major problem of most people managing time?
A．Most people do not take care of their health.
B．Most people put others’ needs ahead of their own.
C．Most people cannot keep balance on managing time.
D．Most people do not take time to relax themselves.
4.What is the author’s attitude toward people’s problems in the passage?
A．Matter – of – fact. B．Negative. C．Indifferent. D．Worried.
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BEIJING, Feb 13 — Never has China's economic growth attracted so much global attention. The shock waves from the financial crisis (危机) that started in the United States have spread across the entire world, sending developed nations, including Japan and those of Europe, into serious recession(衰退). The world is now holding out hope that China, with its massive potential, will serve as the engine to fuel global economic growth.
But China's real economic growth slowed sharply to 6.8 percent in the October-December quarter. For China, this rate of economic expansion must be as disappointing as negative growth is for Japan. Beijing has set an official goal of achieving a minimum annual growth rate of 8 percent -- a pace it regards as important to ensuring job security.
The Chinese government is apparently confident the nation will achieve the minimum growth target of 8 percent in 2009. At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the Chinese economy began to show signs of recovery late last year.
Last week, however, the International Monetary Fund predicted that China's economic growth in 2009 will be 6.7 percent. China's economic outlook is likely to keep both hope and anxiety for the time being.
China's impressive economic growth has been fueled by swelling exports and massive investment (投资)in equipment to produce goods for overseas. But the US, Japanese and European economies, which have absorbed the bulk(数量) of China's exports, are expected to shrink simultaneous（同时）in 2009, for the first time since the end of World War II. For the first time since it started serious efforts to turn itself into a market economy in the 1990s, China is facing the challenge of maintaining healthy economic growth without depending on external demand.
Expansion of domestic (国内的) demand holds a key to China's success in tackling this challenge. Consumer spending accounts for only 35 percent of China's gross (总的)) domestic product. The ratio(比率) is considerably lower than the 70 percent for the United States and the nearly 60 percent for Japan. That is because the middle class - the group that should lead consumer spending - is still relatively small in China, where the benefits of the nation's strong economic growth in recent years have mostly eluded rural villages and low-income earners.
1.According to the report, in the last quarter of 2008, China's real economic growth was at least ______less than planned annual growth rate.
A. 6.7% . B.6.8% C.1.3% D. 1.2%
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The financial crisis has had bad effects on many countries including China.
B. China's economic growth has been depending on exports.
C. If China intends to keep the same economic growth, it must increase goods for overseas.
D. Consumer spending in China is much lower than that of the US.
3.The underlined word in the last paragraph probably means____.
A. benefited B. avoided C. influenced D. missed
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A. Economic change, the only hope for china.
B. China has attracted much global attention.
C. China, the engine to fuel global economic growth.
D. The financial crisis has influenced China's economy.
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Temperature is part of my married romance. Coming to New York from Baltimore--where there is just one small snowstorm each year---I was 36 by a fireplace in my new home, with fires 37 all day, just as what ancient people did at a wedding.
My husband, Peter, comes from northern Ontario, where winter 38 from September to May and cold wind is 39. “When Canadians have 30 below, they 40 it.” He says. “Cold wind is for crybabies.”
So to marry this man I had to learn to 41 for serious cold. To get me from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to Albany’s frozen Hudson, Peter piled me 42 jackets and sweaters, scarves and gloves, even a hat with earflaps. The gift of Sorel boots—comfortably warm at Canada’s 30 below, was a 43 we were getting serious
That first winter together, living in upstate New York, I thought I’d 44. My boots were good below freezing, but my fingers could 45 tie them. Physical adaptation is real, but it came slowly. And there is also emotional 46 to cold. Some days I tell myself that I have enough beach memories to stick to on 47 days and other days I am reminded that living cold does indeed build 48.
49, having a warm house is important. After my first marriage ended, for years I 50 went on a second date with a man whose response to my “I’m cold.” was, “Put on a sweater.” Now I’m married to a man who 51 that cold hands do not mean a warm heart, and that a big oil bill is better than roses. But surprisingly, I’ve grown, too. I am 52, in this new life and climate, to go and look for that cost-saving sweater.
The word comfortable did not 53 refer to being contented. Its Latin root, comfortare, means to strengthen. The Holy Spirit is Comforter: not to make us comfortable, but to make us 54. We 55 not be warm but we are indeed comforted.
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1.A. set down |
B. set about |
C. set up |
D. set out |
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2.A. lighting |
B. burning |
C. going |
D. flashing |
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3.A. appears |
B. starts |
C. keeps |
D. runs |
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4.A. something |
B. everything |
C. nothing |
D. none |
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5.A. suggest |
B. mean |
C. overlook |
D. enjoy |
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6.A. wear |
B. stand |
C. dress |
D. ride |
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7. A. under |
B. over |
C. inside |
D. with |
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8.A. remark |
B. sign |
C. warning |
D. show |
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9.A. sleep |
B. forget |
C. die |
D. continue |
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10.A. hardly |
B. easily |
C. tightly |
D. loosely |
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11.A. health |
B. reaction |
C. feelings |
D. adaptation |
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12.A. rainy |
B. freezing |
C. sunny |
D. happy |
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13.A. character |
B. love |
C. hope |
D. hardship |
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14.A. Meanwhile |
B. However |
C. Therefore |
D. Besides |
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15. A. merely |
B. ever |
C. never |
D. just |
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16.A. wonders |
B. knows |
C. states |
D. decides |
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17.A. unable |
B. accustomed |
C. interested |
D. willing |
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18.A. originally |
B. exactly |
C. actually |
D. namely |
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19.A. wild |
B. cold |
C. strong |
D. warm |
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20.A. will |
B. must |
C. can |
D. may |
