It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.

  Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised . Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact , he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

  The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.

 

46. The main idea of this passage is that_____

A.    large numbers of people do not need sleep

B.    a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep

C.  everyone needs some sleep to stay alive

D.   people can live longer by trying not to sleep

47. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____

A.  to cure him of his sleeplessness

B.  to find that his sleeplessness was not really true

C.   to find out why some old people did not need any sleep

D.    to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

48. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al herpin_____

A.    needed some kind of sleep

B.  was too old to need any sleep

C.  needed no sleep at all

D.  often sleep in a chair

49. One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was _____

A.   his mother’s injury before he was born

B.    that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit

C.     his magnificent physical condition

D.    that he hadn’t got a bed

50. Al Herpin’s condition could be regarded as ______

A    a common one

B.  one that could be cured

C. very healthy

D.  a rare one

Is there anything more important than health? I don’t think so. “Health is the greatest wealth.” wise people say. You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill. If you have a headache, toothache, backache, earache or bad pain in the stomach, if you complain of a bad cough, if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold, or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure, I think you should go to the doctor.                      

The doctor will examine your throat, feel your pulse, test your blood pressure, take your temperature, sound your heart and lungs, test your eyes, check your teeth or have your chest X-rayed. After that he will advise some treatment, or some medicine. The only thing you have to do is to follow his advice. Speaking about doctor’s advice, I can’t help telling you a funny story. An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. He told the doctor about his weakness, memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs. The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease. He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine very day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor advised him to

follow the rule: “Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again, he shouldn’t smoke more than one cigarette a day. A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office. He looked cheerful and happy. He thanked the doctor and said that he had never felt a healthier man.“ But you know, doctor,” he said, “it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”


41. The writer thinks that_____.
 A. health is more important than wealth       
 B. work is as important as studies
 C. medicine is more important than pleasure
 D. nothing is more important than money
42. The doctor usually tells his patient what to do______.
 A. without examining the patient                 B. after he has examined the patient
 C. if the patient doesn’t take medicine      D. unless the patient feels pain
43. The underlined part means “    ”.
 A. he was feeling better than ever          B. he wasn’t a healthy man
 C. he was feeling worse than before        D. he will be well again
44. From the last sentence of the passage, we learn the man_______ before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day.
 A. was a heavy smoker                  B. didn’t smoke so much
 C. didn’t smoke                          D. began to learn to smoke
45. Which of the following is NOT true?
 A. The doctor usually tests his/her blood pressure when a person is ill.
 B. The man told the doctor he couldn’t remember things.
 C. The man thanked the doctor.
 D. The man didn’t follow the doctor’s advice.                       

      There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But  21  a few of them are very  22 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a  2 3   language. Many millions are  2 4   to do so.     Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different   25  . Have you ever   26   ads( 广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your   27  back..." "Easy and funny! Our records and tapes    28   you master your English in a month.   29    the first day your   30  will be excellent. Just send ... "  Of course, it never   31   quite like this.

     The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should   32   that we all learned our own language well when we were  13   . If we could learn English in the same  way, it would not seem so difficult.   34    what a small child  does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 35   in it all  the time. Just imagine how much  36   that gets!

     So it is   37  to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English   38   upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and   39   much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will   40  . But they cannot do the student's work for him.

 

21. A. not  

B. quite 

C. only

D. very

22. A. difficult 

B. important 

C. necessary

D. easy

23. A. native 

B. foreign 

C. useful  

D. mother

24. A. learning

B. enjoying

C. trying  

D. liking

25. A. questions

B. problems

C. ideas

D. answers

26. A. found

B. watched

C. noticed

D. known

27. A. knowledge

B. time  

C. money

D. English

28. A. make  

B. help 

C. let

D. allow

29. A. From  

B. On

C. Since

D. After

30. A. spelling

B. grammar

C. English

D. pronunciation

31. A. happened

B. looked 

C. seemed

D. felt

32. A. know

B. remember

C. understand 

D. think

33. A. students

B. children

C. babies  

D. grown-ups

34. A. Imagine

B. Mind

C. Do 

D. Think of

35. A. using

B. thinking  

C. trying  

D. practicing

36. A. time

B. money  

C. language

D. practice

37. A. hard  

B. easy

C. funny

D. silly

38. A. depends

B. tries  

C. has

D. takes

39. A. uses

B. takes  

C. gets 

D. costs

40. A. do

B. work

C. help

D. master

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