Not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep is not a disorder in itself but a sign of some other problems, often a physical one.

   If you have trouble sleeping, the American Sleep Disorders Association suggests that, for a week or two, you put down the time you go to bed, get up, exercise, and drink coffee, tea or wine.  The purpose is to find the habits that may affect your sleep.

   Then:

Don’t drink coffee in the six hours before going to bed.

Stop smoking and drinking at bedtime.

Don’t sleep during the day.

Go to bed at the same time every night.  Set your alarm clock for the same time every morning and get up at that time, whether or not you sleep well.

Use the bedroom only for sleep.  Read, watch TV, eat and talk elsewhere.

Take sleeping pills according to your doctor’s directions and don’t take them for longer than three weeks at a time.

If you haven’t fallen asleep within 15 minutes of going to bed, don’t turn over worrying about it.  Get up and read or watch TV until you are sleepy, then return to bed.

If you continue to have trouble sleeping, ask your doctor for help or go to a sleep-disorders center.

According to the passage, there is probably        if you are not able to fall 

asleep or stay asleep.

A. a bad way of sleeping      B. a disorder in sleep

a physical reason         D. a problem caused by the brain

If you have trouble sleeping, you should try to ______.

A. ask a doctor for help or go to a sleep-disorders center

put down the time you do things every day

C. do more physical exercise

D. find out the cause first

According to the passage, which of the following would be the best way to help you sleep well?

A. Taking some sleeping pills every day.

B. Reading books before you go to bed.

C. Setting your alarm clock at night.

D. Forming good living habits.

The author writes this article in order to ______.

A. tell us not being able to fall asleep is a serious disease

B. provide us with some suggestions on sleep problem

C. persuade us not to go to see the doctors when we are ill

D. help the American Sleep Disorders Association to find the causes of not being able to fall sleep

“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”
Annabel, my close friend, stunned（使…震惊）me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting（代替）. “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”
My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”
“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.
“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”
My jaw dropped，“What did you do?”
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.
【小题1】What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?

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阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从36--55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
Keeping a Diary in English
Our teacher asks us to keep a diary in English. I   36   doing so because I think keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways to   37   our English writing ability.
Compared with   38   forms of writing, it is shorter and   39   less time. It can help us to   40   the habit of thinking in English.  41   we persist in(坚持) this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English,   42   can use the important phrases and sentences we’ve   43   in or out of English classes to describe our   44  , and this way we can master and use freely   45   we’ve learned, which will do good  46  us in English learning. But   47   we certainly run up against many difficulties. In the first place, it often happens that we have   48   finding proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there   49   many idiomatic (惯用的) ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard   50   us to put them into English properly.
As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is that we   51   always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever   52   beats(难倒) us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then look it up in our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for   53  , if necessary.
In short, I believe that it is of   54   use to keep a diary in English for the development of our   55   skills.
36. A. imagine        B. can’t stand        C. enjoy         D. finish
37. A. get            B. gain          C. improve        D. prove
38. A. other          B. the other      C. another       D. others
39. A. spends         B. takes     C. pays                 D. spares
40. A. develop        B. make         C. give up                 D. pick
41. A. Before         B. After    C. If                     D. While
42. A. they           B. he             C. she                   D. we
43. A. learned        B. forgotten     C. thought               D. listened
44. A. eyes          B. books    C. texts                  D. feelings
45. A. that          B. which     C. what                  D. when
46. A. to            B. across          C. between             D. along
47. A. at a time      B. at one time           C. all the time             D. at times
48. A. trouble       B. difficulties       C. chance               D. choice
49. A. is            B. has         C. are                  D. have
50. A. of            B. for          C. at                     D. on
51. A. can           B. shall      C. may          D. should
52. A. nothing       B. something       C. somebody     D. anybody
53. A. money        B. dictionary      C. question               D. help
54. A. great          B. much   C. very          D. more
55. A. speaking        B. writing         C. listening       D. reading

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个可以填入空自处的最佳答案。

　　One day I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?”

　　As I was walking, I saw some kids running towards him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms．He looked up and I saw the terrible 1 in his eyes. My heart went out to him. So I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. We talked all the way 2 , and I carried some of his books. We hung out all weekend and the more I 3 to know Kyle, the more I liked him.

　　Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends. When we were seniors(高中毕业), we began to think about 4 . Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a 5 . He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

　　Kyle was valedictorian(毕业班发言代表) of our class. Graduation day, I could see that he was 6 about his speech. 7 , I smacked(拍打) his 'back and said, “Hey, big guy, you'll be great!” He looked at me and smiled.

　　“Thanks,” he said.

　　As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to 8 those who helped you make it through those tough years. Our parents, our teachers, maybe a coach 9 mostly our friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best 10 you can give him or her. I'm going to tell you a story.” I just looked at my friend with 11 as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do 12 later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked hard at me and gave me little smile. “Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.”

　　I saw his Mom and Dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile．Not until that moment I 13 its depth. With one small gesture you can change a person's 14 . As you can see, “Friends are angels who 15 us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

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