1、1. (8分)根据短文理解,选择正确答案。During the day, you spend a lot of time running, jumping, laughing, eating, and talking. You use up a lot of energy(能量), and by the end of the day youre tired. Sleep gives your body a chance to rest.But your brain (大脑) and body are not completely at rest during sleep. While you
2、sleep, your mind may think of the things that happened during the day. It keeps the important things in mind as memories(记忆). It also thinks about things you were worrying about, and you may wake up with answers to some of your problems.You also grow while you sleep. The thing called human growth ho
3、rmone (荷尔蒙) in the body helps you grow during sleep. This growth hormone also helps the body to repair itself.Sleep helps your body to conserve energy too. You use up a lot of energy during your daily activities. But when you sleep, your body temperature falls, and your metabolism (新陈代谢) slows down.
4、 You are still using some energy, but much less than when you are awake and active.Have you ever stayed up past your bedtime? Did you have difficulty getting up the next morning? Maybe you had problems seeing clearly or you cannot think clearly. That was your bodys way of saying, I need sleep! A lac
5、k ( 缺乏) of sleep can stop your body and mind from working correctly.(1)What does human growth hormone do while people sleep? A . It helps people rest well.B . It helps repair the body.C . It helps answer problems.D . It helps slow the body down.(2)According to the passage, which of the following tel
6、ls you need sleep?A . You use up a lot of energy.B . You enjoy daily activities.C . Your body temperature falls.D . You dont want to get up.(3)What does the underlined word conserve mean?A . provideB . moveC . saveD . spend(4)What is this passage mainly about?A . Sleep is very important.B . The brai
7、n needs enough sleep.C . Good ways to sleep well.D . People use energy when sleeping2. (8分) To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades, and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very different.Firstly, there are no lessons. All the chi
8、ldren, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only “staff members (职员)”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old. Go explore your environment.You cant stop th
9、em!” says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all taste for learning.”At Sudbury Valley School, you will allow children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on computers, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run arou
10、nd. Two boys spent three years just fishing!The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the
11、school budget(预算), and even which staff they want and do not want any more.When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all time have successful careers toda
12、y. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.(1)What does the school believe?A . Teachers cannot teach children well.B . Children learn best when they do what they want to do.C . Learning is for adults children should only play.D . Children should only learn about one thing at
13、a time.(2)What does Daniel Greenberg say about three-year-olds?A . They love learning.B . They are very naughty.C . They want to be outside all the time.D . They are too young to learn anything.(3)What happens to the children after they leave this school?A . They do the same things as children from
14、other schools.B . They have problems getting into college or getting a job.C . They usually do very unusual jobs.D . They are not successful in their business.(4)What is the main topic of the article?A . Childrens hobbiesB . Education in the USC . A school without rulesD . An unusual school3. (8分) W
15、hat do you usually do in your free time? Play sports? Watch TV? How about reading books? You must know the Chinese saying: Read thousands of books; travel thousands of miles” Books are important in our life. Reading books is good for us. It can help us know and understand the world better. It can help us get a lot of knowledge(知识). It brings us a new and different world that we have never been before. Almost all the great men like reading, l
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