Have you wondered what David Beekham will do when he stops playing?He already has a good plan for his life．The 31-year-old star opened his football school, David Beekham Academy(学校)in London．It’s the largest sporting facility(设施)of its kind in Europe and will provide football training for up to 15,000 children a year．
It has two full-size football field, classroom, a dining hall and medical facilities for boys and girls between the age of 8 and 15．
Beckham hopes the academy will produce future professional footballers, but he also says that it is just for fun and for the children to enjoy themselves．
However, Beckham still decides to continue playing at the highest level in the near future．
“ This school is for my future, for after I finish playing．I will come here as much as I can when I get a break, but the most important thing is my playing career,” he said．
“ I want to play as long as my legs can take me．I don’t want to stop playing, but if it comes to a point where I can’t do it at the top level any more, then I will stop．But for me, I want to keep playing for Real Madrid and keep playing for England as long as I can．”
(1)
Who can go to Beckham’s football school if possible．
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A．
Linda, 20, works in a children’s hospital．
B．
Carl, 6, likes playing football with other children
C．
Mike, 16, a football lover
D．
Julia, 10, shows an interest in sport
(2)
Beckham’s football school ________．
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A．
has 30 football stars
B．
can train more than ten thousand children a year
C．
has many football fields and other facilities
D．
Is sure to produce top footballers
(3)
The Underline ‘it’ means ________．
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A．
playing football’
B．
teaching in school
C．
taking part in the match
D．
walking with my legs
(4)
Which question isn’t mentioned in the passage?
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A．
How old is David Beckham
B．
Why did Beckham open the school
C．
How many children are there in his school now
D．
What’s the most important to Beckham
(5)
What purpose(目的)does Beckham open the football school?
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A．
the academy will produce future professional footballers
B．
After Beckham finish playing, he will come here to get a break．
C．
The academy is just for fun and for the children to enjoy themselves．
How much sleep do we need? The answers are different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠症).
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富兰克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (国王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(侧卧) across the end of the bed!
(1)
Most Americans usually sleep for about _________ hours a night.
A. 3 B. 5～6 C. 10 D. 7～8
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(2)
As people grow older,they need __________ at night.
A. less sleeping time
B. more sleeping time
C. the same amount of sleeping time
D. a fixed time to sleep
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(3)
If there are 100 million people in the US hav-ing a problem with sleep,what's the popula-tion of it? About _______.
A. 200 million B. 300 million C. 600 million D. 900 million
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(4)
Franklin tried to go to sleep by __________.
A. moving from one to another of his 413 beds B. moving from one to another of his 4 beds
C. inventing a bed for himself D. lying on his side across the end of the bed
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(5)
It's not mentioned in the passage,but we know that Mark Twain was ___________.
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