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Everyone knows we can’t live a happy life without good health. As for students, we can’t study well if we don’t have enough sleep. Sleep is important to everyone as well as students. However, 1. start before 8:00am, which means that most students have to wake up at about 6:30am. This makes 2. almost impossible for teenagers to sleep for nine hours that the National Sleep Foundation(NSF, 国家爱睡眠基金会) suggested. Students’ health condition and their grades would 3. if teenagers could sleep for as long as the suggested number of hours.

4. to the NSF, it is normal for teenagers to go to bed late. Only about 15% of teenagers fall asleep 5. 10:45pm, about 5%go to bed about 10:45, and about 80% go to bed after 11:00pm. Many teenagers have sleeping problems.

What’s more, doctors say that lack(缺少) of sleep is the top health problem. If it is true, why can’t something be 6. to help students get more sleep? Studies show that teenagers who sleep for nine and a half hours are late for class less often and have 7. health problems.

Another benefit(益处) of starting classes later is that students’ grades would improve. Enough sleep helps students pay more attention to 8. their teachers say. And then they can have more chances to get better grades.

It is really important for teenagers to get enough sleep so that they may stay healthy and get good grades. To let students make it, classes do need to begin later.

Some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. But that’s not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. “I spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day,” said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing.“I’m interested in things happening at school.” School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There’s also world news: from international (国际的)problems to pop stars.

Read the newspaper carefully, and we’ll find different kinds of article on the pages:

News stories---these stories are about events(事件). Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers’ ideas.

Opinion writing---opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn’t just facts. Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth(真相). This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to“Speak Out”on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.

Advertisement---Don’t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products(产品)! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!

1.The underlined sentence “You just need to make clear what you are looking at.” means that the readers“____”.

A. should understand interesting news stories

B. should know which kind of things to read

C. need to read the school news first

D. must know the contents(内容)of all the news

2.Writers use some facts in opinion writings because they want us ____ them.

A. to understand B. to remember

C. to agree with D. to speak out

3.We can not find the facts of an event____.

A. in advertisements B. in the school news

C. in opinion writing D. on the front page

4.In the writer’s opinion, we’d better be ____advertisements in newspapers.

A. interested in B. against

C. worried about D. careful of

5.This passage mainly discusses how____.

A. reporters write different kinds of news

B. teenagers get interested in newspapers

C. readers can read newspapers in better ways

D. readers can deal with(应付)different kinds of news in newspapers

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