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  Ways to Fall Asleep

  为了尽快进入甜蜜的梦乡,历史上许多名人绞尽了脑汁,有的人终于找到了自己独特的人眠方法,可有的人还是好梦难圆。你想探个究竟吗?

  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 ___________.

  A. a Frenchman  B. an Englishman

  C. an American   D. a German

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     Have you ever heard of a girl of 15, who set up a company of her own? Wendy Wong is the girl. She
started the business two years ago. She has already    1    several successful computer games. They are
so    2    that over half a million games are sold every year. Now all of her family work in her business,
and she is    3    at school.
     She gets up early in the morning, and then talks with her family about the    4    over breakfast. Every
day during weekdays, she goes to school in her own car with a    5  , for she is not old enough.
     She enjoys her school, but some of the work is too easy for her to feel    6   . She usually gets "A"
grades in all her    7   . So the other students often ask her for    8   . She finished her homework in half
an hour after her driver takes her home. After dinner, she goes to her office and    9    working on her
computer writing games until 2 a.m.
     She does not usually need so much   10     as other children.
(     )1. A. worked  
(     )2. A. afraid  
(     )3. A. still  
(     )4. A. lessons
(     )5. A. doctor  
(     )6. A. interested
(     )7. A. subjects
(     )8. A. money  
(     )9. A. goes on
(     )10. A. food  
B. played      
B. popula      
B. hardly      
B. friends    
B. teacher    
B. interesting
B. family    
B. help      
B. finds out  
B. sleep      
C. written    
C. expensive  
C. often      
C. exams      
C. driver    
C. uninterested
C. friends    
C. grades    
C. stops      
C. fruit      
D. bought        
D. surprised    
D. sometimes    
D. business      
D. visitor      
D. uninteresting
D. home          
D. results      
D. hurries      
D. pleasure      

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