题目内容
One afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married. Max walked into the dining room, where I was looking through my old photos.
These months I was learning to let Max come _________on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was_________, we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.
“Who' s that?” he pointed to one photo.
“My mom. I suppose she is your___________Sylvia.”
“Cool. Who is that to me?”
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.”
“Hmm. Too bad he had to die.”
Death is always a painful___________especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of___________relatives.
He began to finger through the photos. "Who is that to me?
Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his_______question. But I said, “I’m your___________mom. I' m sorry that your first mom died.”
“What should I call you?” he asked.
Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.
“You can call me Mom or Betsy. _________feels OK for you.”
I waited, expecting a pronouncement of my new_________.
“Sweet,” he said, walking out of the room.
For a couple of days afterward, Max __________a new title for me. "Can we go bowling?” “Can I watch TV?” he'd ask, and then__________the questions by mouthing the word Mom. Mom was always____________.
One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don't call you Mom.”
“I noticed that too.”
“__________ I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it's maybe__________ if you’ re just Betsy.”
Tears(眼泪) were filling my eyes.
“Hey, Betsy?”
“Yeah,” I said, taking pleasure in the new ____________of my old name.
1.A. down B. near C. close D. back
2.A. kind B. patient C. Helpful D. confident
3.A. grandmother B. mother C. aunt D. cousin
4.A. subject B. speech C. message D. sign
5.A. dead B. boring C. unknown D. strict
6.A. simple B. proper C. stupid D. funny
7.A. natural B. past C. only D. second
8.A. Whoever B. Whatever C. That D. Anybody
9.A. position B. name C. title D. call
10.A. worked out B. turned out C. carried out D. tried out
11.A. answer B. follow C. confirm D. raise
12.A. alive B. wise C. silent D. lost
13.A. Until B. before C. When D. Unless
14.A. politer B. safer C. sadder D. riskier
15.A. pronunciation B. announcement C. voice D. sound
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Beyond its influence on health, not getting enough sleep can lead to car accidents or other mistakes. Here are what sleep researchers have found about how to sleep.
How much sleep do we actually need?
It is known that all of us naturally need no less than eight hours of sleep per night. When we sleep below six hours per 24. we're at an increased risk of health problems. Some of us think we can make up any of those hours lost during the week on the weekends. Sadly there is no storage system for sleep in the brain.
Can we train ourselves to need less sleep?
As a study in 1964, a 17-year-old boy named Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours. How many people could do anything close to that without dying?
When you are reading this, you might say you usually get six hours of sleep and feel just fine. Sleep experts often compare people without enough sleep to drunk drivers: They don’t get behind the wheel thinking they're probably going to kill someone.
Can we drink coffee instead of sleeping?
Coffee can keep us awake. Remember, too much coffee may throw off our sleep and energy cycles. So limit coffee and avoid caffeine for four to six hours before bedtime.
Does a sense of purpose connect to sleep quality?
A new research suggests a kind of strong connection between purpose in life and sleep. People who have a greater sense of purpose usually have better physical and mental health, which in turn explains their higher-quality sleep. Perhaps developing a sense of purpose in life could be as useful at improving sleep as the healthy habits above.
How to sleep | ||
Introduction | Not getting enough sleep can influence our health and1.many mistakes. | |
Findings from2. researchers | How much sleep do we actually need? | ●Eight hours of sleep a night is 3.for all of us. ●Sleeping less than six hours a day can4. the risk of health problems. ●It is 5.to make up the lost sleeping hours during the workweek. |
Can we train ourselves to need less sleep? | ●People without enough sleep would insist that they were 6., but weren't doing well at all. | |
Can we drink coffee instead of sleeping? | ●Using coffee instead of sleeping might lead to sleep 7.. ●Drink proper amount of coffee at proper8.. | |
Does a sense of purpose connect to sleep quality? | ●A sense of purpose in life is closely9.with sleep quality. ●People with a greater sense of purpose may sleep 10. |