59. Who are in favor of clothesline drying?

A. Housing businesses.　　　　　　　 　　　 　　B. Environmentalists.

C. Homeowners Associations.　　　　 　　 　　D. Reck’s dissatisfied neighbors.

58. Which of the following best describes Matt Reck?

A. He is a kind-hearted man.　　　　　　 B. He is an impolite man.

C. He is an experienced gardener.　　　　 D. He is a man of social responsibility.

57. One of the reasons why supporters of clothes dryers are trying to ban clothesline

drying is that ____.

A. clothes dryers are more efficient

B. clothesline drying reduces home value

C. clothes dryers are energy-saving　　

D. clothesline drying is not allowed in most U.S. states

51. What is the text mainly about?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

A. Adolescent health care.　　　

B. Problems in adolescent learning.　　　　　　

C.Adolescent sleep difficulties.　

D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.

答案　 48.B　 49.C　 50.D　 51.D

Passage 40

(08·浙江E篇)

A simple piece of clothesline hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors.

On one side stand those who see clothes dryers(干衣机) as a waste of energy and a major polluter of the environment. As a result, they are turning to clotheslines as part of the “what-I-can-do environmentalism(环境保护主义).”

On the other side are people who are against drying clothes outside, arguing that clotheslines are unpleasant to look at. They have persuaded Homeowners Associations (HOAs) across the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, because clothesline drying also tends to lower home value in the neighborhood. This has led to a Right-to-Dry Movement that is calling for laws to be passed to protect people’s right to use clotheslines.

So far, only three states have laws to protect clotheslines. Right-to-Dry supporters argue that there should be more.

Matt Reck, 37, is the kind of eco-conscious(有生态意识的) person who feeds his trees with bathwater and reuses water drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But on July 9, 2007, the HOA in Wake Forest, North Carolina, told him that a dissatisfied neighbor had telephoned them about his clothesline. The Recks paid no attention to the warning and still dried their clothes on a line in the yard. “Many people say they are environmentally friendly but they don’t take matters in their own hands,” says Reck. The local HOA has decided not to take any action, unless more neighbors come to them.

North Carolina lawmakers are saying that banning clotheslines is not the right thing to do. But HOAs and housing businesses believe that clothesline drying reminds people of poor neighborhoods. They worry that if buyers think their future neighbors can’t even afford dryers, housing prices will fall.

Environmentalists say such worries are not necessary, and in view of global warming, that idea needs to change. As they say, “The clothesline is beautiful. Hanging clothes outside should be encouraged. We all have to do at least something to slow down the process of global warming.”

50. What might be a reason for the hard transfer from middle school to high school?

A. Adolescents depend more on their parents.

B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.

C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.

D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.

49. The underlined phrase “nod off” Paragraph 1 most probably means “ _______”.

A. turn around　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. agree with others　

C. fall asleep　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. refuse to work

48. Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because ________.

A. it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime

B. it is biologically difficult for students to rise early

C. students work so late at night that they can’t get up early

D. students are so lazy that they don’t like to go to school early

47. How many of them mentioned that they would miss food or drink?

A. One.　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 B. Two.　　　 　　　　　　 C. Three.　　　 　　　　　 D. Four.

答案　 45.B　 46.C　 47.C

Passage 39

(08·浙江C篇)

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren’t used to the early hour.

“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problems of adolescent　 (青春期的) sleep at Brown’s School of Medicine.

Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time on adolescents. And, at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.

Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, not less, as commonly thought.

Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it’s not just a matter of choice-their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.

All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school-which may start one hour earlier in the morning-all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when it comes to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying,“I need a timeout.”

46. Which of the following people would feel most uncomfortable without the news

media?

A. Steve.　　 　　　　　　　 B. Jaime.　　 　　　　　　 C. Roger.　　　 　　　　　 D. Tomas.

45. Who would miss his or her family most?

A. Jaime.　　　 　　　　　　　　 B. Jayne.　　　 　　　　　 C. Miko.　　　　　 　　 D. Paola.