4、What happens when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time? To answer this question, a New Yorker, Peter Tripp, offered to stay awake 200 hours. During that time Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his progress.
After three days of staying awake, he began to show signs of his mental breakdown. He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept（哭泣） at things that were not sad. Complaining of pressure caused by a hat on his head, he tried repeatedly to take it off. Tripp, of course, was not wearing a hat.
On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor's jacket looked like crawling worms. Then he imagined he was in another city; he tried to run away from the building, insisting it was on fire; and he thought the 200-hour mark had been passed but that the doctors were still trying to keep the experiment going. After 200 hours without sleep, Tripp, said the doctors, was “suffering from mental illness.” He was nearly mad.
Hardly able to stand, Tripp was helped across the street to a room in a hotel. There, after being awake for 201 hours and thirteen minutes, he fell asleep. The doctors predicted（预言） he would sleep for twenty or thirty hours. “Peter Tripp will sleep the deepest sleep in history”, said the doctors. Tripp slept all right----for nine hours and eleven minutes. When he awoke, his first words were: “I feel fine.” After a medical check, his greatly surprised watchers said that he was sound and well.
1．The best title for this passage is _______.
A．Sleeplessness
B．Danger to Health
C．Test of Strength to Health of Body and Mind
D．A Man Who Didn't Sleep for Over 200 Hours
2．What is the main idea of the passage?
A．There is little danger when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time.
B．Going without sleep for a long period will cause bad effects.
C．After 200 hours without sleep Tripp was suffering from “mental illness”.
D．The doctors predicted Tripp would sleep for twenty or thirty hours.
3．Tripp started to show signs of his mental breakdown ______.
A．when his third day of staying awake came to an end
B．when he was not allowed to sleep for 5 days
C．at the end of the experiment
D．after 201 hours and 13 minutes without sleep
4．The doctors were greatly surprised because Tripp ______.
A．could not fall asleep B．slept the deepest in history
C．slept for thirty hours D．slept for a relatively short time
5．From the passage we can draw the conclusion that long periods of sleeplessness ______.
A．may produce lasting harm to the brain
B．may produce a loss of cheerfulness forever
C．may not produce lasting damage
D．may produce some serious after-effects
3、根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes. 1 He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write.
2 It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn’t do that. 3
Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a way to move it away.” But few men believed him. 4 Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there.
To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn’t know which spirit had moved it away. 5
“How could he? ”The rich farmer called out. “He’s only fifteen! He couldn’t move it at all!”
“He dug a big hole beside the stone”, said the old woman, “And then he could easily pull it into the hole!”
Looking at each other, the farmers couldn’t say a word.
A．There seemed to be nothing strange in the village.
B．The old woman said Richard had done it all.
C．There was a narrow path between two mountains.
D．But the boy didn’t lose heart.
E．Some farmers even laughed at the boy.
F．The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day.
G．They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I’m middle school student of sixteen. I have a weight problem. Some boys often made fun of me and are unfriendly with me. They call me “Meat ball”, it makes me feel unhappily .I’m now worried about my weight. Although I am a bit fat, I feel quite well . I enjoy my meals .I love eating meat very much. But I like sweet foods, too. Now I am getting fatter and fatter. In the past two months, I have put on 5 kilos. I’ve got worrying about this, but I don’t know that how to lose weight quickly. Who can tell me the right way of lose weight? If you give me some advice, I’ll be grateful.
yours,
Li Ming
1、《学英语》报拟在某期头版介绍英国语言专家 W · J · Waston, 请你就下面的简历写一篇介绍性的短文（词数 100 左右）
姓名： W · J · Waston 性别：男 国籍：英国
出生年月： 1967 年 6 月 职业：英语教师
工作单位：第一中学
简历： 1989 年大学毕业， 1992 年携妻子来到中国。
主要事迹：
1．热爱教育事业，工作认真负责，乐于帮助学生。
2．教学方法多样，课堂生动有趣，深受学生欢迎。
3．经常为中学生作如何学好英语的报告。
4．任本报顾问，提出了许多良好的建议。
生词：毕业 graduate ；顾问 adviser ；建议 advice
26、从下列各题的四个选项中，找出与所给单词的划线部分读音完全相同的选项。
1．surface
A．face B．base C．necklace D．mistake
2．strong
A．longer B．single C．singer D．younger
3．Monday
A．stay B．holiday C．days D．sway
4．courage
A．cousin B．count C．youth D．cough
5．pleasure
A．expression B．musician C．ocean D．conclusion
25、Mick’s new DVD player is only 20 cm 15 cm and weighs 2 kilos.
A．with ,in B．by, about C．with, for D．between, over
24、—How much do the pencils cost?
—Three pounds pencils.
A．by two dozen of B．for two dozen of
C．by two dozen D．for two dozen
23、
You’re out to dinner. The food is delicious and the service is fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip. Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think.
Tipping, psychologists (心理学家) have found, is not just about service. Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors（因素） from the waiter’s choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill’s total. Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night.
“Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker,” wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor. “These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimics them.”
So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups. He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, “Coming up!” Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers. Rick van Baaren then compared their take-home. The results were clear — it pays to mimic your customer. The copycat waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.
Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill. After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cab drivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers’ bills went up. In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (达到稳定水平) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.
“That’s also a point of tipping,” Green says. “You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you. If they weren’t there, you’d never get any service. So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there.”
1．How many factors affecting the customers’ tipping are mentioned in the passage?
A．2. B．1. C．3. D．4.
2．These studies show that _________.
A．tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiter’s factors
B．people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them
C．the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as the other group
D．mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad
3．According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages?
4．We know from the passage that the writer seems to __________.
A．oppose Mr Green’s idea about tipping
B．think part of Mr Green’s explanation is reasonable
C．give his generous tip to waiters very often
D．support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping
22、— Have you been to the Great Wall?
— Perhaps not in my memory. _______, it might have been during my early childhood.
A．If any B．If ever C．If once D．If not
21、A person who has_______ final say in an international company is usually _______ influential one.
A．a; the B．the; an C．the; the D．a; an
