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【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

It’s surprising how we spend our lives. Reach your 78th birthday and according to some back-of-the-envelope 1 (calculate) , and you will have spent nine of those years 2 (watch) television, four years driving a car, 92 days on the toilet, and so on.

But when 3 comes to time-consuming activities, there’s one that sits head and shoulders above them all.4 (live) to 78, and you may have spent around 25 years asleep. In an effort 5 (regain) some of that time it’s reasonable to ask: how long can we stay 6 (wake) – and what are the consequences of going without sleep?

Any healthy individual 7 (plan) to find out through personal experimentation will find it tough going. If we ignore all these side effects and stay up 8 days on end, our minds become insane(精神错乱的). We get moody, paranoid(偏执狂的), and see things that 9 (be) really there. When a shadowy apparition(幽灵) appears on the roadway, so the advice goes, it’s time to pull the lorry over. “People start to hallucinate(幻觉) and go 10 bit crazy,” says Atul Malhotra, the Director of Sleep Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

【答案】

1calculations

2watching

3it

4Live

5to regain

6awake

7planning

8for

9aren’t

10a

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文,介绍了当一个人活到78岁的时候,他将花25年的时间用来睡觉,有人不禁会想如果我们不把这么多的时间“浪费”在睡觉上会怎样,答案是连续几天不睡觉我们就会变得喜怒无常、偏执多疑,甚至会产生幻觉。

1考查名词的数。句意:到你78岁生日的时候,根据一些粗略的计算,你将会花上9年的时间看电视,4年的时间开车,92天的时间上厕所,等等。作介词短语according to的宾语用名词,calculation表示“计算结果”时是可数名词,some修饰可数名词复数,故填calculations

2考查非谓语动词。句意同上,spend time doing表示“花时间做某事,故填watching

3考查代词。句意:但说到耗时的活动,有一项比所有的都重要。when it comes to….表示“当提到”,故填it

4考查祈使句。句意:活到78岁,你可能已经用了25年的时间来睡觉。此处为“祈使句+and+陈述句”结构,表示做到了祈使句表示的事情,就会有后面陈述句表示的结果,故填Live

5考查非谓语动词。句意:为了重新获得一些时间,我们有理由问:我们能保持清醒多久?不睡觉会有什么后果?in an effort to do sth.表示“为了做某事、努力做某事”,故填to regain

6考查形容词。句意同上,stay是系动词,后面跟形容词作表语,故填awake

7考查非谓语动词。句意:任何想要通过个人实验来找到答案的健康人都会发现这很难。Any healthy individualplan之间是逻辑上的主谓关系,表示主动,用现在分词作后置定语,故填planning

8考查介词。句意:如果我们忽视这些副作用,连续几天熬夜,我们就会精神错乱。根据空后的“days”可知此处与之构成介宾短语作时间状语,for days表示“数日”,故填for

9考查时态和主谓一致。句意:我们变得喜怒无常、偏执多疑,看到的东西其实并不存在。此处为定语从句,that 指代先行词things,谓语动词用复数形式,陈述的是客观事实,用一般现在时,根据“We get moody, paranoid”可知此处表示否定,故填aren’t

10考查固定短语。句意:人们开始产生幻觉,变得有些疯狂”,阿图尔·马尔霍特拉说。a bit表示“一点”,修饰后面的形容词crazy,故填a

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