“If you consider getting older with needing less sleep, it’s not true!” says Robert Oexman. Besides sickness, medicine and pain, Dr. Oexman looks at his patients’ nighttime habits, which cause the most sleep problems. So, how are you destroying your sleep?
Watch TV until you fall asleep
It has nothing to do with what you watch. It’s because you face TV’s bright light. So even if you nod off in front of the TV, for example, you possibly can’t stay asleep for long.
So an hour before bedtime, treat yourself like a baby: a warm bath. But no reading or writing on your computer before bed or in the middle of the night.
Exercise too close to bedtime
Remember how poorly you sleep when you have a fever, never really feeling rested? Well, heavy exercise too close to bedtime has the same effect—it raises your body temperature, so that your sleep is not at best until your body temperature drops to normal, which may take several hours.
So no exercise at least three hours before bedtime to make sure your body temperature is normal.
Eat fatty, heavy foods too close to bedtime
If you’ve ever tried to go to sleep after eating a fatty meal, you’ve probably found the discomfort of stomach and you are less likely to fall asleep.
So try to eat your last meal of the day at least 2-3 hours before bedtime. Should you feel hungry before bed? So have a bowl of cereal or a small boiled potato. Or maybe have a serving of jasmine rice.
Title: Help with sleep1.___________ | ||
Bad2.________ | Results | Solutions |
Watching TV until you fall asleep | It’s 3._______ that you can’t stay asleep for a long time. | Take a warm bath. Don’t read or write before bed or at midnight. |
Exercising too close to bedtime | It takes you several hours to sleep well. | 4._____ do exercise at least three hours before bedtime. |
5._____ fatty, heavy foods too close to bedtime | You feel uncomfortable in your stomach. | Eat your last meal at least 2-3 hours before bedtime. Have something if you feel hungry. |
1.---- How is everything going with you?
---- It seems that I am ________________ (忙得多) than I used to be after I changed my job.
2.. ---- What do you think of our teacher’s advice on how to learning English well?
---- I think his advice _________________ (值得听从).
3.That performance was a great success and the audience _________________________ (情不自禁地鼓掌) their hands for a long time.
4. Work with your heart at your work and be polite to the people around you. I am sure your parents ____________________ (为你感到自豪) in the future.
5.Through many years of hard work, Jim’s dream of being an actor _________________ (实现了) now and he will appear more often in movies.
play the lead role; get angry; divide into; search for information; stay up late; suffer from; easy; donate; buy; wear; |
1. Who did the director think was the perfect girl _________________________ in the play?
2.I ___________________________ a terrible toothache when Mum came back from work.
3.If no one _______ clothes made of animal furs, then people won’t kill wild animals any more.
4. Lots of money _____________________ to the poor family since the news was broadcast through radio.
5.Can __________________ red also make it easier for you to take action?
6. He used to be patient enough to explain everything to us without ____________________.
7.The young woman often __________________ to write internet novels and this did harm to her health.
8. How many pieces ________ that cake _____________? We must make sure everyone can have one piece.
9. The computer system broke down suddenly while he ______________________ on the Internet.
10. You need to change your plan. A new road has been built between Niushan and Nanchen. So it’s much ______________ to get there now.
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One day a rich man invited his friends to a party and they drank a lot of wine. At last there was only a pot of wine left. Who could get it? They 1. t___________ of an idea and decided to have a match. The person who finished the painting of a snake2. f__________ could drink the wine, so they began drawing.
One of them drew quickly. After he finished, he saw others were still busy drawing. He said, “How 3. s_______ you are! I am the first to finish the painting. I still have enough time to draw something else.” So he added feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, 4.a__________ man also finished drawing. He took away the pot and said, “Who has ever seen a snake with feet? Snakes have no feet, so yours is not a snake. I am the 5. w__________, I will get the wine.”
1. The 22nd Winter Olympic Games was held from the seventh of February to the ______________ (二十三号) of February in Sochi, Russia.
2. How much time do the volunteers devote to (改善) the environment around the area?
3. The smart phone (invent) 14 years ago has greatly changed our everyday life.
4. ---- Look! An old lady is (躺) on the street over there.
---- We must do something to help her, but we have to take some photos first.
5.. Sam hardly has any good friends because he always (拒绝) to help other people.
Mark began to introduce the guest speaker to the listeners, but then stopped for a while. He had forgotten her name.
Barbara hid her valuable things when she went on vacation. When she came back, she couldn’t remember where she’d put them.
Perhaps you’ve had such experiences like these. Most people have. But most of them haven’t realized that they have a memory problem. Neither do they know a simple but important fact: Memory can be improved. If you just accept that, the following will show you how.
First, relax. If you are over worried about something, you’ll forget it. If you keep telling yourself that your memory is bad, your mind will come to believe it and you won’t remember things. When you forget something, don’t follow up with saying like “Oh, my god! I always forget things! ” Such words will have a bad result on you and your memory.
But relaxing isn’t enough. To improve your memory, you’ll need to take an active role. Like your body, your memory can be made strong through exercise. Look for chances to exercise your memory. For example, if you’re learning a language, try to actively remember a lot of new words.
If you don’t take notice of things actively, you won’t remember them. So, you can make pictures of what you see in your mind every day. For example, don’t just put your keys down! If you want to find them again, make a mind picture of the place where you’re putting them.
1.The first two paragraphs just tell us ________.
A. examples of memory problems
B. Barbara was a very rich person
C. language problems of two persons
D. Mark often forgot his friends’ names
2. When you forget things, you ________.
A. must be too careless
B. must accept the fact
C. should be confidence in your memory
D. can know your memory is bad
3.According to the article, ________ can make your memory better.
A. doing sports every day
B. talking to your friends
C. realizing your memory problems
D. making mind pictures of what you see
4. The purpose of the article is to help you________.
A. introduce the guest B. improve your memory
C. remember new words D. forget unhappy things
