题目内容
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。
What happens when human beings are deprived of sleep for long periods of time? To answer this question, a New Yorker, Peter Tripp, offered to stay awake 200 hours. ___66___.
After three days of staying awake, he began to show signs of mental breakdown. He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept 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.
___67___. 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 illness.” ___68___.
Barely able to stand, Tripp was helped across the street to a room in a hotel.
___69___. The doctors predicted he would sleep for twenty or thirty hours. “Peter Tripp will sleep the deepest sleep in history.” Said the doctors. Tripp slept all night for nine hours and eleven minutes. When he awoke, his first words were, “I feel fine.” ___70___.
A. He was nearly mad!
B. After a medical check, his greatly surprised watchers said that he was sound and well.
C. On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor’s jacket looked like crawling worms.
D. He was awake.
E. On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor’s jacket looked like crawling worms.
F. There, after being awake for 201 hours and thirteen minutes, he fell asleep
G. During that time Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his progress.
GCAFB
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
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。
In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. 71 According to the report,the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a pleasant one. 72 The population could be as large as 6300 million,almost 2150 million more than in 1985.More people would move into cities ,especially cities in developing countries.Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would each have 15 million by then.
73 Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,but most of the increase would be in countries that already produce enough food for their people. 74 Poor farming ways are destroying large areas of crop land,changing farms into deserts.More farmland is lost as cities become larger and more houses are built.Air pollution will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil.Many of the world's forests could disappear as more and more trees are cut down.Energy will continue to be a serious problem. 75 They only workde out the situation that exists today.By changing the situation,by settling the problems,the picture can be changed.There is still time for the nations of the world to work out a plan of action.But they warned that waiting too long to make de cisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.
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A.Food production will increase,but not enough to feed all the people. |
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B.The report was a result of a three - year study. |
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C.Later on,more reports came out one by one. |
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D.The world will be more crowded because the population will continue to grow. |
E.Experts believe enough food will be produced in developing countries very soon.
F.The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010 may be wrong.
G.Little increase is expected in South Asia,Africa and the Middle East.