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根据下列句子及所给汉语注释,在句子右边的横线上,写出空缺处各单词的正确形式.(每空只写一词)
⑴Don't _____(浪费) your money on silly things
⑵The wind turned my_____(伞)inside out.
⑶I_____(认出) Mike the moment I saw him .
⑷ Do you know the_____(平均) monthly rainfall in this area?
⑸ Sleep is_____(必要) to health
⑹ This bus can carry 60_____(乘客).81.
⑺Fitty years ago, Chairman Mao_____(宣告) the founding of the People's Republic of China.
⑻ what is the best-known chain of fast-food(餐馆) in the world?
⑼ They lived in London until quite_____(最近)
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Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television? How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes, we never fond it difficult to occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy civilized pleasures. For instance, we used to have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we used to go outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting events. We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally. All that belongs to the past. Now all our free time is regulated by the goggle box. We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme. We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do – anything, providing it doesn’t interfere with the programme. The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.
Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly(电视). Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost. The telly is a universal pacifier. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set. It doesn’t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence – so long as they are quiet.
There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world. Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work. That is why most of the programmes are so bad: it is impossible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well. When millions watch the same programmes, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities. We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken word.
Television encourages passive enjoyment. We become content with second-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working. Little by little, television cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy, we choose to spend a fine day in semi-darkness, glued to our sets, rather than go out into the world itself. Television may be s splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilization. In quiet, natural surroundings, we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly
- 1.
What is the biggest harm of TV?
- A.It deprives people of communication with the real world
- B.People become lazy
- C.People become dependent on second-hand experience
- D.TV consumes a large part of one’s life
- A.
- 2.
In what way can people forget TV?
- A.Far away from civilization
- B.To a mountain
- C.By the sea
- D.
- E.n quiet natural surroundings
- A.
- 3.
What does a mother usually do to keep her children quiet?
- A.Let them watch the set
- B.Put them in the living room
- C.Let them watch the rubbish
- D.Let them alone
- A.
- 4.
What does the first sentence in the first paragraph mean?
- A.We found it difficult to occupy our spare time
- B.We become addicted to TV
- C.What we used to do is different from now
- D.We used to enjoy civilized pleasures
- A.
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It’s nearly noon on a Saturday and you can’t believe it: your teenager is still in bed, sleeping away. But before you wake him up---mumbling to yourself that you can’t believe what a lazybones he is---you should know that he probably needs all the zzzs he can get.
As much as nine hours of sleep a night, in fact. Furthermore, teens’ circadian rhythms (i.e., processes that occur once a day) mean that young people would rather stay up past midnight and rise after 9 a.m. The result? Many teens stay up late, drag themselves out of bed early for school and try to make up the sleep debt on the weekends---or in class!
“There’s a biological reason why teens stay up late and want to sleep late,” says Dr. Stan Kutcher, the Sun Life Chair of Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “Their natural sleep-wake cycle changes as part of the maturation process. And because of changes in their social activities, recovering from sleep debt is more problematic.”
Teens need extra sleep for several reasons. First, their brains are changing. “The brain is reorganizing itself, laying down new pathways. What we’re seeing is a relationship between brain redevelopment and an increased need for sleep,” says Kutcher. As well, growth hormones are released during sleep, so adequate sleep is crucial for adolescents’ physical development. In addition, everything adolescents have learned in school that day is being processed and locked into long-term memory during sleep. Sufficient sleep also plays a key role in overall physical health. The immune system, for example, needs deep sleep to become and remain robust(healthy).
Staying up late on school nights means that, on average, teens get between six and a half and seven hours of sleep a night---about two hours less than they need. As a result, many either doze off in class or have trouble concentrating. Some of the behavioural problems and irritability in teens can be linked directly to sleep deprivation(损失), Kutcher says.
Then there’s the breakfast issue. Dr. Carlyle Smith, a sleep researcher and a psychology professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., adds that many teens simply cannot tolerate food when they first wake up, so skipping breakfast becomes another factor in reduced alertness in class. The most obvious solution to the teen sleep problem is to have school start later in the day, but initiatives(积极性) toward this across the country have gone nowhere, Smith says, mainly because of costs and resistance from school boards and teachers.
So for now, just sympathize with your teens. Encourage them to go to bed, if not early, then at least at a regular time, so they won’t develop insomnia from erratic(不稳定的) schedules. Warn them not to have too many caffeinated drinks before bed. And don’t let sleeping away the weekend become an issue to fight over. Schedule family activities to take place later in the day on weekends and let them sleep in. “If you want your kids to grow and remember stuff, let them sleep,” says Smith. “It’s not laziness. Their brains are working really, really hard.”
1.The word “zzzs” (Paragraph 1) most probably means __________.
A.food B.sleep C.energy D.blame
2.What causes teenagers to be less sleepy late at night and more sleepy early in the morning?
A.Caffeinated drinks.
B.Too much family activities.
C.Circadian rhythms.
D.Too much homework.
3.How many reason why teens need extra sleep are mentioned in Paragraph 4?
A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.
4.One of the reasons why many teenagers fail to have better performances in class is that __________.
A.teenagers go to bed early and sleep late
B.teenagers stay up late and get up late
C.teenagers participate in too many social activities at night
D.teenagers skip breakfast because of sleeping in
5.The author wrote this article to __________.
A.advise parents to let sleeping teenagers lie
B.explain why teenagers often sleep late
C.state schools should start late in the day
D.warn teenagers not to drink coffee before bed
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Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you are awake because you can control your behavior, but when you are asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to displease people. So you never express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and you aren’t quite sure of yourself.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but you don’t raise your hope too much. You usually live for today not tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up, you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive. You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well—balanced personality. You know your strengths and weakness. You’re usually careful. You believe in yourself. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get sad. You always say what you think even if it makes people rather angry.
1.According to the passage, a person, who is not willing to change his mind and hard to deal with, probably sleeps ___.
A.on his side |
B.on his back |
C.curled up |
D.on his stomach |
2.If a person prefers to sleep curled up rather than on his back, he may be well content to ____.
A.do things personally. |
B.stay alone |
C.keep things secret |
D.trust others easily |
3. Which of the following people, in the author’s opinion, most likely have personalities opposite to each other ?
A.The people sleeping on their stomach and those sleeping on his backs. |
B.The people sleeping on their sides and those sleeping curled up. |
C.The people sleeping on their backs and those sleeping on their sides. |
D.The people sleeping curled up and those sleeping on their stomach. |
4. What the author mainly intends to tell us is that _______.
A.one’s sleeping position has something to do with (与……联系)one’s character. |
B.everyone has got both real and secret personalities. |
C.the position in which one goes to sleep is the most important one. |
D.when awake, one does not show one’s secret personality. |
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