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 (效率) 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 (流派) 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.According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.

A.people who stay up until the next morning

B.people who get up early in the morning

C.people who feel sleepy in the morning

D.people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning

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

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

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

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

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

3.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

4.What’s the author’s sleep pattern?

A.Going to bed early and getting up early.

B.Going to bed late and getting up late.

C.Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time.

D.Going to bed early and getting up late.

5.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

 

第二节:短文改错(共10小题;每小题1. 5分,满分15分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。如有错误(每行只有一个错误),如无错误,在答题卡相应的位置上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正;

此行多一个词:把多余的词写在答题卡相应的位置上,用斜线(﹨)划掉。

此行缺一个词:在答题卡相应的位置上写出该加的词,并附带前(后)词。

此行错一个词:在答题卡相应的位置上写出该错词和改正后的词。

注意:原行没有错的不用改。

A 60-year-old Australia woman jumped onto the back                        76. ___________

of a 4-metre crocodile stop it from killing a 34-year-old                  77. ___________

man. The crocodile grabbed one man as he was sleeping                   78. ___________

in a tent at a beaches campsite in Australia. The crocodile                79. ___________

entered the tent around 4 a. m. Monday and dragged                       80. ___________

the man outside. The woman, that was camping nearby, saw             81. ___________

what was happening and jumping onto the crocodile. The crocodile 82. ___________

then let the man go and turned on the woman, pulling him                      83. ___________

towards the water. Luckily a third person shot                                 84. ___________

the crocodile death just in time, saving the woman.                          85. ___________

 

For a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.”
Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. I’m not alone in my opinion.
First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding(追击)ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.
Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts” Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.
And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn’t just the first week: it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn’t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?
I don’t jog any more, and I don’t think I ever will. I’m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I’m getting exercise, and I’m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I’ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

  1. 1.

    From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer’s neighborhood ______.

    1. A.
      jogging became very popular
    2. B.
      people jogged only during the daytime
    3. C.
      Alex organized an army of joggers
    4. D.
      jogging provided a chance to get together
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.

    1. A.
      heart attacks
    2. B.
      Back problems
    3. C.
      famous joggers
    4. D.
      physical weaknesses
  3. 3.

    What was the writer’s attitude towards jogging in the beginning?

    1. A.
      He felt it was worth a try.
    2. B.
      He was very fond of it.
    3. C.
      He was strongly against it.
    4. D.
      He thought it must be painful.
  4. 4.

    Why did the writer give up jogging two months later?

    1. A.
      He disliked doing exercise outside.
    2. B.
      He found it neither healthy nor interesting.
    3. C.
      He was afraid of having a heart attack.
    4. D.
      He was worried about being left alone.
  5. 5.

    From the writer’s experience, we can conclude that______.

    1. A.
      not everyone enjoys jogging
    2. B.
      he is the only person who hates jogging
    3. C.
      nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit
    4. D.
      jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport.

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