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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脑汁，有的人终于找到了自己独特的入眠方法，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 Americans 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 lay on his side（侧卧）across the end of the bed!根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
(1)Most Americans usually sleep for about _______ hours a night.
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A ．3 |
B ．5～6 |
C ．10 |
D ．7～8 |
(2)As people grow older, they need _______ at night.
[
]A
．less sleeping timeB
．more sleeping timeC
．the same amount of sleeping timeD
．a fixed time to sleep(3)If there are 100 million people in the US having a problem with sleep, what's the population of it? About ________.
[
]|
A ．200 million |
B ．300 million |
C ．600 million |
D ．900 million |
(4)Franklin tried to go to sleep by________.
[
]A
．moving from one to another of his 413 bedsB
．moving from one to another of his 4 bedsC
．inventing a bed for himselfD
．lying on his side across the end of the bed(5)It's not mentioned in the passage, but we _________ know that Mark Twain was _______.
[
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A ．a Frenchman |
B ．an Englishman |
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C ．an American |
D ．a German |
解析：
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(1) 由第一段中“Most Americans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night.”可知。(2) 由第一段中“After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.”可知。(3) 由第二段中“About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep.”可知。草药(4) 由“… had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep.”可知。 |
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Long long ago people made fires from lightening
（闪电）. But they had to keep the fire burning, for they couldn't start it again if there was no lightening. Later, they found out hitting two pieces of stone together could make a spark （火花）. The spark could fire dry leaves. In this way they could make the fire again if it went out. Then people also learned to make a fire by mbbing（摩擦）. They made a hole on a piece of wood and put a smaller stick into the hole. They turned the stick again and again. After a few minutes they got a fire.Years went by, people learned other ways to make a fire. Sometimes they used the heat from the sun. They held a piece of glass in the right way and made a piece of paper on fire.
About two centuries ago, people began to make matches. Matches brought people a quick and easy way to make fires. Today matches are still being used, but people have more new ways to make fires. One of them is to use an electric fire starter. Of course an electric fire starter is much more expensive than a box of matches. But it is very useful.
(1)From the text we know that a spark can _______.
[
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A ．fire any leaves |
B ．burn anything |
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C ．burn dry leaves |
D ．keep fire burning |
(2)We can also get a fire by _______.
[
]A
．making a hole on a big piece of woodB
．putting a smaller stick into the holeC
．turning the stick hard for a whileD
．all above together(3)Matches have been used _______.
[
]A
．for about two thousand yearsB
．for about two hundred yearsC
．since people began to use fire for cookingD
．since people used the heat from the sun(4)From the text, we know that ________.
[
]A
．electric fire starters are widely usedB
．people haven't used matches since they had electric fire startersC
．today there are only two ways to make fireD
．some forest fires happen from lightening(5)Which of the following is the right order of the ways to make fires that people got to know?
[
]a. with a match
b. from the sun
c. from lightening
d. by rubbing
e. with an electric fire starter
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A ．a,b,c,d,e |
B ．b,c,a,e,d |
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C ．c,d,b,a,e |
D ．d,a,c,b,e |