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Tricks to Learn from Super Sleepers

Do you want to sleep soundly each night and wake up energized the next day?

Exercise early.

Morning fitness class(健身班) or gym time before work? Go ahead, give it a try. 1.________ While experts aren’t exactly sure why, it could have something to do with morning exercise’s ability to help regulate the secretion(分泌物) of certain hormones(荷尔蒙) involved in blood pressure management, which may lead to better sleep.

Eat light at night.

Desiring a midnight snack? If your stomach starts rumbling(发出咕噜声) before bed, try reaching for good-for-you foods that actually promote sleep, like walnuts, tart cherries, or Greek yogurt instead. 2._________ Eating too much of anything within a few hours of going to bed could suppress(抑制) your body’s ability to produce sleep-promoting melatonin.

Power down at night.

Smart phones, tablets, and laptops let you do everything from shopping to watching movies to working in bed. What they don’t let you do? Fall asleep. 3._________ . In addition to reducing your blue light exposure, you’ll probably feel less stressed, which in itself can help you sleep better.

Keep their rooms cool

4._________ But being too warm can make it harder to have quality sleep, say experts at the National Sleep Foundation. Instead, they recommend keeping your bedroom at around 20℃,which research suggests is the most suitable temperature for great sleep.

5._________

Consistency(一致性) is key to healthy sleep. Though for some it’s usual to stay up late, then get up early for work and sleep late on the weekends, doing so can cause damage to your body’s internal clock. Over time, that can make it harder to fall asleep, not to mention making it more unpleasant to wake up in the morning.

A. The idea of a comfortable bedroom and piles of soft, fuzzy(毛茸茸的)blankets is very appealing.

B. Find ways to deal with stress.

C. Go to bed at the same time every night.

D. However, try not to overeat even it is the healthy food.

E. You don’t have to give up alcohol altogether in the name of better sleep.

F. Exercising in the morning could lead to better sleep than afternoon or evening sweat sessions.

G. Put your devices away at night—ideally, two to three hours before you plan to go to sleep.

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Once upon, there were two traveling angels(天使) who stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was impolite and _________ to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead, the angels were given a space in the _________ underground room. As they _________ their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the _________ and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel _________ , "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very _________ , but very kind farmer and his wife. _________ sharing the little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed _________ they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in _________ . Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay _________ in the field.

The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this_________ ? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had _________, yet you watched over his house," she accused. "The second family had little but was_________ to share everything, and you did not help.".

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we _________ in the underground room, I noticed there was gold _________ in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to _________ his good fortune, I asked God if I could_________ the wall so he couldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow _________ . You see, things aren't always what they seem. "

Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don’t _________ the way they should. You need to _________ that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it /until sometime later.

1.A. decided B. preferred C. agreed D. refused

2.A. cool B. cold C. warm D. comfortable

3.A. made B. set C. fixed D. decorated

4.A. ground B. ceiling C. wall D. window

5.A. cried B. spoke C. sang D. replied

6.A. rich B. poor C. lucky D. fortunate

7.A. Before B. Since C. After D. When

8.A. where B. what C. why D. which

9.A. sweat B. tears C. power D. danger

10.A. happy B. disappointed C. alive D. dead

11.A. appear B. happen C. run D. operate

12.A. something B. nothing C. none D. everything

13.A. willing B. unhappy C. exciting D. surprising

14.A. parked B. camped C. stayed D. remained

15.A. stored B. stolen C. robbed D. picked

16.A. divide B. show C. share D. separate

17.A. damage B. erase C. ruin D. seal(封上)

18.A. instead B. beyond C. away D. aside

19.A. turn in B. turn out C. turn to D. turn off

20.A. hope B. wish C. trust D. suppose

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It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps is our first activity of the day. This means 1. (回到)the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits 2. (在…荫凉下)the trees while the family begins to wake up and 3. (离开). Then we follow as they 4. (漫步走进)the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening 5. (让一切变得值得). We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.

Born in 1930,Yuan Longping 6. (毕业于) Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. 7. (自从那时), finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Yuan Longping 8. (寻找) a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce about fifty-six million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in the world. Yuan Longping is now circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. 9. (多亏) his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to 10. (使世界消除饥饿). Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice before.

Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.

Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.

Some places on the earth don't get much rain. But they still don't become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don't let the sun make the earth even drier. Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become desert more easily.

1.Deserts _______.

A. never have any plants or animals in them

B. can all be turned into good land before long

C. are becoming smaller and smaller

D. get very little rain

2.Small green plants are very important to dry places because ______.

A. they don't let the sun make the earth even drier

B. they don't let the wind blow the soil away

C. they hold water

D. All of the above.

3.Land is becoming desert little by little because ______.

A. plants can't grow there

B. there is not enough rain

C. people haven't done what scientists wish them to do

D. scientists know little about the deserts

4.Which is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Scientists know how to change desert into good land.

B. Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good land.

C. If scientists can bring water to desert, people can live and grow food there.

D. More and more places are becoming deserts all the time.

Scientists used to explore探测on the surface of the ocean. Now they are exploring below the surface, too. They want to know about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean.

In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3 000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935 August Piccard dived 10330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35 800 feet. All these early dives were deep. But the divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below surface. Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau, a Frenchman, was able to keep men down to a depth of 90 feet for a week.

Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment,men can stay below the surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then,in 1964,he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea. This was the first undersea station to operate without help from the surface.

Many countries are now studying undersea living. The former Soviet Union has an undersea laboratory in the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In 1970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral,vegetable,and animal wealth there to provide food for the entire world.

1.In order to______ ,scientists are exploring below the surface of the ocean.

A. know about the ocean water deep in the ocean

B. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surface

C. know about the plant and animal life deep in the ocean

D. both A and C

2.Who made the deepest dive______

A. William Beebe.

B. August Piccard.

C. Jean Piccard.

D. Cousteau.

3.Which of the following statements is true____

A. The early divers could not stay down for very long.

B. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea laboratory.

C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use of the resources in the ocean.

D. None of the above is true.

An 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a crow(乌鸦) landed on their window.

The father asked his son, “What is that?”

The son replied, “That is a crow.”

After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is that?”

The son said, “Father, I told you just now. It is a crow.”

After a little while, the father asked his son the same question for the third time, “What is this?”

This time his son shouted at his father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you already. ‘IT IS A CROW.’ Are you not able to understand this?”

A minute later the father went to his room and came back with a diary, which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page, he asked his son to read that page:

Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow suddenly landed on the window edge. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied him 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question. I did not at all feel angry, but instead felt affection for my son.

If you parents reach old age, do not look at them as a burden, but speak to them gently, and be kind to them. From today say this aloud, “I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered me with love. I will take care of my old parents in the BEST way no matter how they behave.”

1.The writer mainly intends to ______.

A. tell us the function of a diary

B. call on us to love our parents

C. teach us what a crow is

D. introduce a pair of son and father

2.According to the passage, the son felt _____ when his father kept asking the same question.

A. puzzled B. angry C. grateful D. surprised

3.We can know that the father wrote this diary at the age of ______.

A. eighty B. forty-give

C. thirty-eight D. thirty-five

4.The old man brought out the diary, which he had kept since his son was born, because ___.

A. he forgot what had happened

B. he would like his son to read it

C. it could remind himself of the past

D. he wanted to find what a crow was in his diary

At no time in history has there been such a mass movement of people from the countryside to the city as is happening now. By the year 2030, it’s estimated that more than two thirds of the world’s population will be living in cities, twice as many as today. This means that the problems faced by cities today—overcrowding, poor housing, unemployment, poverty and lack of food and water—will be twice as bad unless we find solutions soon.

Another serious issue is how to provide good transportation for their citizens. Many of the world’s major cities are already struggling with out-of-date transport infrastructures(基本设施).How can they deal with the additional demands?

London is a good example. Its enlargement was made possible by the invention of the steam engine, which powered the world’s first underground railway. But its transport system are now hopelessly out-of-date and need urgent modernization. London’s future success depends very much on developing better public transport.

Over a million people travel into central London every day from outside the city. They together with the people who live in London, want a public transport system that is efficient, safe and environmentally friendly. What they often get, however, falls far short of that ideal. Passengers complain about cost and pollution, while businesses worry about the problems their staff have in getting to work on time. Yes, the proportion of London households that own a car grew from just over ten percent in the early 1950s to over sixty percent today.

As the city has become increasingly crowded and polluted, there has been a growing realization that action must be taken soon.

1.It is believed that____.

A. overpopulation causes the problem in cities

B. two thirds of the world’s population are living in cities today

C. it isn’t difficult to solve the problem faced by cities today

D. with fewer people we would be free from problems

2.The underlined word “they” in the fourth paragraph refers to _______.

A. the citizens in the city of London

B.those who come to London from other places

C. passengers who make complaints about the cost

D. businesses who are anxious about their staff getting to work late

3.The underlined words “environmentally friendly” is closest in meaning to ________.

A. pleasant and nonpolluting B. cheap and punctual

C. quick and straight D. fair and convenient

4. The following paragraph of this text would most probably deal with___

A. train and air travel

B. traffic jams in London

C. possible solution to London’s transportation problems

D. car ownership that continues to grow.

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