Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.

But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong. The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.

There are two main schools of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.

My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.

However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.

1.Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?

A. Because he / she found that the productivity was higher.

B. Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise.

C. Because he / she wanted to test which school is better.

D. Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time.

2.The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.

A. going to bed after midnight

B. asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits

C. getting up early occasionally

D. pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping

3.According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ___________.

A. People who stays up late until the next morning

B. People who feel sleepy in the morning

C. People who get up early in the morning

D. People whose productivity is the highest in the morning

4.The passage is mainly about ________.

A. main schools of thought on sleep patterns

B. how to have a good sleep

C. wrong strategies for getting up early

D. how to become an early riser

完形填空,阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was a special morning and the children, mainly boys with various learning difficulties, refused to settle for the start of the lesson. ________ an inexperienced teacher, I tried every possible means to get them to be ________ , but in vain. My ________ was rising and I could feel my heart ________ wildly. I began to wonder whether this was the ________ of my job as a music teacher. I thought ----teaching was not for me. Then an idea occurred to me. Hoping that no one would notice that I was ________ at that time, I threw my voice as ________ as it would reach: "Put your heads on the desks and close your ________ ! We are going on a journey."

________ , the children fell silent. "Now what should I do?" I thought to myself. Reaching over to my collection of CDs, I blindly ________ , put it in the ________ and played it.

Obediently (顺从地), my class lay their heads on their desk, closed their eyes and ________ . When the music started, the room was ________ with the most beautiful tones and musical colors I could have ever imagined. All the children were ________ . When the music finished, I asked them all to raise their ________ slowly so that we could ________ our musical journey.

At this point, ________ all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to ________ . The music allowed me to learn that teaching is about sharing and respect, tears and smiles, the knowing and the _________ and most of all, an understanding of each other. This was the power that ________ in the classroom could have.

1.A.For B.With C.As D.Without

2.A.safe B.quiet C.kind D.glad

3.A.panic B.shame C.joy D.delight

4.A.hitting B.slapping C.jumping D.beating

5.A.aim B.end C.plan D.rule

6.A.hopeful B.confident C.nervous D.happy

7.A.near B.far C.nearer D.farther

8.A.mouths B.eyes C.books D.doors

9.A.Importantly B.Amazingly C.Obviously D.Frequently

10.A.passed one on B.gave one back C.turned one in D.took one out

11.A.CD player B.tape recorder C.television set D.notebook computer

12.A.slept B.nodded C.waited D.clapped

13.A.full B.filled C.satisfied D.greeted

14.A.talking B.dancing C.listening D.discussing

15.A.legs B.arms C.shoulders D.heads

16.A.share B.scream C.whisper D.yell

17.A.although B.when C.but D.where

18.A.understand B.imagine C.play D.teach

19.A.unspoken B.unknown C.unprepared D.unforgotten

20.A.games B.music C.tears D.Knowledge

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项.

1. Instead, they learn at home. They are taught by adults, more often ,their parents are their teachers. Educational companies, libraries and the Internet provide many families with teaching material.

2. Some choose it because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. They say home offers a better place for learning. Some parents believe home-schooling avoids problems of traditional schools. These include classes that have too many students. Critics, however, say children need to attend school with other children.

3. Some states(州)do not require much preparation made by parents or testing of children. Other states have more requirements for home-schooling. Home-schooling in the United States began when the country was established. In farm areas, people often lived far from a school. Widespread home-schooling took place until about the middle of the 19th century. Then, in 1852, the state of Massachusetts passed the first law requiring children to attend school.

Over the years, the American public education system strengthened and grew. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, some Americans believed that traditional education was not helping their children. 4.

Home-schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says many kinds of people have joined the movement. 5. They represent many races, religions and political beliefs. Ms. Dobson says the number of home-schooled children has increased by an estimated fifteen to twenty percent each year during the last fifteen years.

A. Parents choose home-schooling for several reasons.

B. Home-schooling is not accepted by all the people.

C. More than one million children in the United States do not go to school.

D. So a number of parents began home-schooling.

E. All fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling.

F. She says these include rich people and poor people.

G. They are mainly rich people.

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