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Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my ? ? was more manageable , I ? ?? ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. ? ?? it was years ago and times have changed. ? ? I live with mother on a country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to make up for my disability pension (残疾抚恤金). ? ? I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited(限制) in my choices. I decided that I would consider ? ? to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was ? ? when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of ? ? to get started. And often you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can ? ? use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my ? ? , he gave me a long thoughtful . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”
He led me ? ? the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand ? ? on his treasure(财宝) and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your pick and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”
I could have cried. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose ? that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.
His still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.
1.A. loneliness ????????????? B. sadness ? C. tiredness D. sickness
2.A. set ????????????? ??? B. enjoyed??? ????????????? C. kept ????????????? ??? D. shared
3.A. Gladly ????????????? B. Finally ?? C. Unfortunately D. Surprisingly
4.A. Now B. Then?? ????? C. Sometime ????????????? D. Meanwhile
5.A. If ????????????? B. As ????????????? ??? C. Though ????????????? D. Before
6.A. reaching out B. living up ????????????? C. getting on????????????? ??? D. going back
7.A. recognized B. interviewed ????????????? C. found ????????????? ??? D. invited
8.A. money ????????????? B. time ? ????????????? C. energy ????????????? D. knowledge
9.A. actually ????????????? B. hardly ????????????? C. nearly ????????????? D. mainly
10.A. job B. family C. idea ????????????? D. offer
11.A. face ????????????? B. view ????????????? C. look ????????????? D. sight
12.A. over ????????????? B. along ????????????? C. towards ????????????? D. through
13.A. unhappily B. lovingly ????????????? ??? C. pitifully ????????????? D. gratefully
14.A. more ????????????? B. the ones ???? C. few ????????????? D. the rest
15.A. courage B happiness C. kindness ????????????? D. trust
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However, there are occasional(偶尔的)misunderstandings(误会). A smart English woman said to a smart American woman on a California beach. English woman: It’s the first time I’ve bathed for years. American woman (amazed): Is that so? I can’t believe it! English woman: It’s true. You see, the water at home’s always so cold. American woman : But…But surely you have hot water in England? English woman (laughs): Of course, but not in the sea! There can be similar misunderstandings over the word “pants”, though most English people know that Americans call trousers “pants”. American girl: I never wear pants. They don’t suit me. English girl: Really? Couldn’t that be a bit embarrassing(难堪的)? American girl: Embarrassing? Why? English girl: Well—that short skirt you’re wearing…American girl: Oh, my! But I wear panties(短衬裤)! In British English, “pants” are undergarments. However, young people in Britain do sometimes say “pants” for “trousers”.
1 All the English is based on__________.
A. British English B. American English
C. Canadian English D. Australian English
2 Which of the following sentences is not true?
A. Americans can read English literature easily.
B. British readers can read all the American literature with no difficulty, either.
C. Some of the English words we are learning now are from the USA.
D. There are some times misunderstandings between Americans and Englishmen.
3 Pants in American English mean _________in British English.
A. panties B. undergarments
C. underwear D. trousers
4 From the passage we know that “to bathe” in American English means ________ and means_______ in British English.
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Even though global warming may have made the weather more mild, many animals are still hibernating（冬眠）. It’s too bad that humans can’t hibernate. In fact we almost did.
Apparently, at times in the past, farmers in France liked a semi-state of human hibernation. So writes Graham Robb, a British scholar who has studied the sleeping habits of the French farmers. As soon as the weather turned cold, people all over the France shut themselves away and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing at all for months.
In line with this, Jeff Warren, a producer at CBC Radio’s The Current, tells us that the way we sleep has changed since the invention of lighting.
When historians began studying texts of the Middle Ages, they noticed something referred to as “first sleep”, which was not clarified, though. Now scientists are telling us our ancestors most likely slept in separate periods. The business of eight hours’ continuous sleep is a modern invention.
In the past, without the artificial light, humans went to sleep when it became dark and then woke themselves up around midnight. The late night period was known as “The Watch”. It was when people actually kept watch against wild animals, although many of them simply moved around or visited family and neighbors.
According to some sleep researchers, a short of insomnia（失眠）at midnight is not a disorder. It is normal. Humans can experience another state of consciousness（清醒状态）around their sleeping, which happens in the brief period before we fall asleep or wake ourselves in the morning. This period can be a creative time for some people.
Playing with your sleep rhythms（节奏）can be dangerous, as worry may set in. Medical science doesn’t help much in this case. It offers us medicines for a full night’s continuous sleep, which sounds natural; however, according to Warren’s theory, it is really the opposite of what we need.
【小题1】The late night was called “The Watch” because it was a time for people ______.
| A．to set time to catch animals |
| B．to remind others of the time |
| C．to guard against possible dangers |
| D．to wake up their family and neighbors |
| A．sleep in the way animals do |
| B．follow their natural sleep rhythms |
| C．keep to the eight-hour sleeping way |
| D．ask doctors for help if they can’t sleep |
| A．To throw new light on human sleep. |
| B．To encourage people to sleep less. |
| C．To give some suggestions on insomnia. |
| D．To find out people’s hibernating history. |