It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin. Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true ? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Al Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day. They never saw Herpin sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason ? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.
1.The main idea of this passage is that _______.
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A．a person was found who actually didn't need any sleep |
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B．large numbers of people do not need sleep |
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C．everyone needs some sleep to stay alive |
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D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep |
2. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting to _______.
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A．cure him of his sleeplessness |
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B．find a way to free people from the need of sleeping |
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C．find that his sleeplessness was not really true |
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D．find out why some old people didn't need any asleep |
3.After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al Herpin _______.
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A．was too old to need any sleep |
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B．needed no sleep at all |
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C．often slept in a chair |
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D．needed some kind of sleep |
4.One reason that might explain Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.
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A．that he hadn't got a bed |
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B．that he had gradually got tired of the sleeping habit |
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C．his mother's injury before he was born |
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D．his magnificent physical condition |
On the first day of the new term, I met my new headmaster at the school gate. “Follow me, please!” he said. He had a quiet, kind voice. He took me into my new classroom and left. In front of me, thirty pairs of eyes looked at me. I knew he had told the students that I was blind. I could almost feel the question behind their eyes: Blind? I felt the answer too: If she’s blind, this should be good! I heard quiet voices in a corner of the classroom. For a moment, I felt afraid. I knew at once that I had to be strong.
“Class,” I said as loudly as I could. “I may be blind. But I am not foolish. Take those naughty smiles off your faces, and stop talking, please!” Of course, I could not see their faces; I just guessed that some of them were smiling. The class were quiet. They were very surprised. I knew that I had done the right thing.
As the days went by, the students had more surprises. I could smell when the children were eating sweets. I could easily hear combs going through hair, students passing messages, and so on. Once I found a girl passing a message to a friend. I took the message to the teachers’ room. A teacher read it to me. On one side it said, “Do you think she can see?” on the other it said, “I think so. She always knows what we’re doing.”
Soon the students stopped being naughty, and started to work hard. Before long, they brought in photos of their families for me to look at; I knew then they were my friends. I also knew they had forgotten that I could not see.
1.In Paragraph(段) 1 the writer said she must be strong because .
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A．she was too weak |
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B．the students laughed at her |
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C．the headmaster left her alone |
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D．she felt the students were not friendly to her |
2.The students were surprised for the first time because .
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A．the teacher seemed to know everything |
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B．the teacher caught them smiling |
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C．the teacher caught them talking |
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D．the teacher was not foolish |
3.In the new teacher’s class the students often .
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A．exchanged sweets |
B．combed their hair |
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C．wrote letters |
D．read letters |
4.The students brought their photos for the writer to look at .
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A．to interest her |
B．to cure her illness |
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C．to make friends with her |
D．to show their friendliness |
Two men, both seriously ill, were in the same hospital room. One man was allowed to _16_ up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was _17_ the room’s only window. The other man on the other side of the room had to _18_ all his time lying on his back in bed.
Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up he _19_ pass the time by describing to his _20 all the things he could see outside the window. “The window overlooks a _21_ with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans play on the water _22_ children sail their model boats. Young lovers walk _23_ among flowers of every colour. Grand old trees grace(装扮) the landscape, and a fine _24_ of the city skyline can be seen in the distance.” As the man by the window _25_ all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and _26_ the scene.
Days and weeks passed. On morning, the day nurse came only to find the man by the window had died _27_ in his sleep. When the man’s body was _28_, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the _29_. The nurse agreed and after making sure he was _30_, she left. Slowly and painfully, the man raised himself _31_ to take his first look at the _32_ world outside by himself. But to his _33_, he found it faced nothing _34_ a blank wall.
In fact, the man by the window was _35_ and could not even see the wall. He just wanted to encourage his roommate.
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As is known to all,the water in the sea______much salt.
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B．contains |
C．includes |
D．covers |
Joan’s mother thought it would be good for her character to from home and earn some money on her own.
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A．run away |
B．take away |
C．keep away |
D．get away |
It’s the second time that I in Beijing. What great changes! It’s years since I
here last time.
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A．went; had left |
B．had been; left |
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D．have; have left |
