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Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behavior agree that there is virtually an epidemic of sleepiness in the nation. “I can’t think of a single study that hasn’t found Americans getting less sleep than they ought to.” says Dr. David.
The beginning of our sleep deficit crisis can be _1_ to the invention of the light bulb a century ago. From diary entries and other personal _2_ from the 18th and 19th centuries, sleep scientists have reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9.5 hours a night. By the 1950s and 1960s, that sleep schedule had been reduced _3_ to between 7.5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock. “People cheat on their sleep, and they don’t even _4_ they’re doing it,” says Dr. David. “They think they’re okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5，8 or even more to feel ideally _5_.”
Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep, researchers say, is the _6_ of the day. Whenever pressures from work, family, friends and community mount, many people consider sleep the least _7_ item on the agenda. “In our society, you’re considered dynamic if you say you only need 5.5 hours’ sleep. If you say you’ve got to get 8.5 hours, people think you lack _8_ and ambition.”
To assess the _9_ of sleep deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them. “We’ve found that if you’re sleep-deprived, performance _10_,” says Dr. David. “Short-term memory is impaired, as are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate.”
A) consequences B) complexity C) ingenious D) dramatically
E) suffers F) tracked G) realize H) expensive
I) slightly J) traced K) detaches L) vigorous
M) inspiration N) accounts O) drive
答案：
1.[J]can be表明此處需填入名詞、形容詞或分詞作表語，且能與介詞to搭配。由句子主語The beginning of our sleep deficit crisis(初現(xiàn)睡眠不足)和賓語the invention of the light bulb a century ago(一世紀前發(fā)明了電燈)，可知此處在探尋睡眠不足的原因。traced“追溯……的發(fā)展”可與to搭配，符合上下文語境。tracked表示“追蹤，跟蹤”時,是及物動詞，故排除。
2.[N]此處需填人personal所修飾的名詞，與句中的diary entries(日記)并列，因此應(yīng)該也是復(fù)數(shù)形式。Personal accounts指“個人敘述”，符合此處語境。
3.[D]此處需填入副詞，修飾謂語動詞reduced。根據(jù)空格后between 7.5 and 8 hours,可知相比之前的9.5 hours,睡眠時間減少了很多，故選用dramatically“顯著地”。
4.[G]空格前出現(xiàn)否定助動詞don’t,故此處需填入動詞原形。上文說人們偷走了(cheat on)睡眠時間，空格前的even “甚至”表示遞進關(guān)系，realize “意識到”符合句意，表示他們甚至都沒有意識到這一點。
5.[L]此處需填入名詞、形容詞或分詞，作feel的表語。本句意為:他們認為睡6.5小時也沒有問題(okay),而實際上他們需要睡7.5或8個小時，甚至更多才能感覺……。由前后兩個時間的對比和空格前的ideally(理想地)可知，vigorous“精力充沛的”符合句意。
6.[B] the…of結(jié)構(gòu)表明此處需填入名詞。由下文“來自工作、家庭、朋友及社會的壓力”，可知填人的名詞表消極含義，故complexily“錯綜復(fù)雜”符合句意，表示睡眠被無情奪走的原因是每天各種錯綜復(fù)雜的事務(wù)。
7.[H]此處需填入名詞、形容詞或分詞，修飾item(項目)。上文提到人們的睡眠時間越來越少，由此可知很多人不重視睡眠時間。空格前的least表示否定,故填入expensive“昂貴的;浪費的”。
8.[O]此處需填入與ambition(抱負)并列的抽象名詞，作lack的賓語。drive作名詞時意為“干勁”，符合此處語境，表示“如果你說要睡8.5小時，人們就會覺得你缺少干勁和抱負”。
9.[A] the... of結(jié)構(gòu)表明此處需填入名詞。由后文We’ve found that...可知，研究專家做試驗的目的是為了知道睡眠不足的后果，consequences指不太好的后果，故為正確答案。
10.[E]此處需填入謂語動詞，由主語performance可知是第三人稱單數(shù)形式。根據(jù)后文提到的Short-term memory is impaired(短期記憶受損)等，可知在sleep-deprived(睡眠不足)的情況下，行為應(yīng)該會受到不良影響，故 suffers“受損害”符合語境。'
The White House
The white house has been the home of every united states president except george washington. Abigail adams was the first“ first lady”to move into the pennsylvania avenue mansion. she used to hang her family’s laundry in the unfinished east room . The white house was burned by the british during the war of 1812. Soon after, the house was rebuilt and painted white, and it has been known as the white house ever since.
The white house is both a public house and a private home. Its character changes with each new president. Gas lighting was installed in 1848, but bathrooms were not added until thirty years later. By 1950 , the building was no longer safe to live in . The truman family moved out while repairs were made. Jacqueline kennedy developed the plan to decorate the white house as it is today.
The 132 -room mansion is furnished with antiques, portraits of the presidents, and other art work.The president’s oval office and staff offices are on the ground floor. The state reception rooms are on the first floor. The second and third floors are where the president and his family live.
The job of president is very demanding. Every minute of every day is planned. The president may start with a breakfast meeting with his cabinet, move on to the east room for a press conference, meet with a foreign ambassador in the blue room, then end the day at a dinner in the state dining room.
The president and his family share their home with the public every morning. long lines stretch for blocks.They wait for a chance to see the nation’s most popular house, and possibly a glimpse of the president.
閱讀自測
Ⅰ.fill in the blanks with proper prepositions:
1. he was known_______ a great novelist.
2. my mother is known_______ her cooking.
3. he’s known_______ everyone as a good actor.
�、�. answer the following questions:
1. what happened to the white house during the war of 1812 ?
2. how is the white house furnished?
參考答案
�、�. 1.as 2 . for 3. to
Ⅱ. 1.it was burned by the british. 2. it’s furnished with antiques, portraits of the presidents, and other artwork.
The tree of language
A world with out language it may be that when the world was young, no one knew how to talk. people had to learn to speak just like babies do. When no one knew how to tell, how did anyone learn? that is a mystery that remains unsolved even today.
The stories behind words lunch lunch perhaps comes from an old spanish word lonje , a slab of1 ham. we may get our word from a lump of bread, but whether lunch comes from ham or bread, it meant a hunk of something to eat.
Atlas an atlas is a strong man, and also a book of maps. The story of this word begins a long time ago in greece. The ancient greeks believed that their gods had once been a race of giants2 called titans. the titans fought with another group of gods called olympians, and the olympians won. atlas was a titan. He was punished for fighting be having to stand at the western end of the world, holding the sky on his head and hands, so that it would not fall on the world and smash everything.
After the ancient greek religion died out, the idea of atlas changed. from holding up the sky with his head and hands, he came to be thought of as holding the world on his shoulders. Mercator3, a map maker of the sixteenth century, used a picture of atlas on the cover of a book of maps, so a book of maps came to be called an atlas.
The word has still another meaning. the top bone of the neck is called atlas because it supports the head.
Good-bye or good-by good-bye is a blessing; originally it was god be with ye, and in the course of time it became one word. many of our greetings are good wishes, but we say them with so little thought that we forget this. When we say good morning, good evening, good night, and so on, what we are really saying is,“ i hope you will have a good morning ( or evening, or night) . ”
Daisy the daisy has a little golden eye , like a tiny sun . Perhaps this is the reason the english people named it day’s eye, or perhaps they chose the name because the english daisy closes at night. The english loved their daisies, which were pink and red, as well as 028 white. Six hundred years or so ago, the english poet chaucer4 said:
the daisy, or else the eye of the day, //the queen, and prettiest flower of all
閱讀自測
�、�.according to the passage , find the correct meanings of the words under lined :
1.with an atlas, tom can find the place he wants to go easily.
a.a strong man
b.the top bone of the neck
c.a book of maps
d.a name of god
2. when you say good-bye to your friend, what do you really mean?
a. never see him / her again
b. a good wish to express that god be with him / her
c. good luck
d.break up with him / her
3. after a long vacation, he looks as fresh as a daisy like before.
a. look like the flower
b.a kind of drink
c. a first-class man
d.vigorous and lively
�、�. question :
after reading this passage, what can you infer from the stories of the words?
參考答案
Ⅰ. 1. c 2 . b 3 . d
�、�. ( 略)
Rather than using custom machine tools to build early models of new parts, Ford is now using 3-D printing technology to design and test its engineers’ latest ideas. The new method allows product developers to have a _1_ in their hands in as little as a week after they create a new design-compared with having to wait three to four months _2_.
“We’re building more and more parts every day using this _3_,”says Harold Sears,a technical expert in rapid manufacturing at Ford’s design facility in Dearborn, Mich. Ford’s new hybrid transmission was developed on a 3-D printer that costs about $300,000 and which can turn a pile of aluminum powder into a working prototype in a day or two.
While low-cost 3-D printing by consumers and small businesses looks like a market now ready for takeoff, large businesses have already _4_ advanced versions of the technology. The result has been a _5_ improvement in the product-development process across a wide range of industries, including the _6_ of cars, consumer electronics, safety equipment and medical devices.
The process has done more than just save time and money. Engineers say rapid prototyping using 3-D printing is producing more _7_, higher-quality products—from custom-fitted bicycle helmets to better-sounding ear buds and loudspeakers.
Instead of waiting for tools and parts to come back from outside machine shops or injection, molding houses, product developers on tight _8_ now get more hands-on time to test their models. 3-D printers allow them to test and _9_ more versions of their prototypes—in some cases tripling the number of duplicates of a new product that can be _10_ before being produced on a large scale.
A)previously B) thereafter C) process D) elastic
E) deadlines F) manufacturing G) significant H) innovative
I)ignited J) embraced K) lubricate L) prototype
M) refined N) update O) mechanisms
答案：
1.[L]冠詞a提示空格處應(yīng)填入名詞。該段概括介紹了 3-D打印這一新技術(shù),首句指出運用新技術(shù)建造初期模型，第2句則補充說明該技術(shù)的優(yōu)勢。根據(jù)上下文和空格后的in their hands可推知，空格所需名詞應(yīng)與early models 同義，故選用 prototype
2.[A]此處需填人副詞，修飾have to wait...。根據(jù)本句內(nèi)容可知，有了 3-D打印技術(shù)之后，等待模具的時間大大縮短，而不像“以前”要等3、4個月，可見此處應(yīng)選用previously。
3.[C] this提示此處應(yīng)填入名詞，且該名詞在上文有具體所指。上文提到的主要內(nèi)容是3-D打印這一“新技術(shù)”,此處的名詞應(yīng)該帶有“技術(shù)”、“方法”等類似的意思,據(jù)此在名詞庫中選用process。
4.[J]解答本題需先弄清advanced的詞性。這里advanced是形容詞“先進的”,用于修飾名詞versions。因此空格處應(yīng)填入過去分詞與have already連用，充當(dāng)句子謂語。詞庫中embraced“采用”符合語境,說明一些大企 業(yè)使用了這種技術(shù)。
5.[G] a... improvement提示空格處應(yīng)填人名詞、形容詞或分詞作定語。根據(jù)后面提到的這一技術(shù)在各行業(yè)的應(yīng)用，可知其影響重大，應(yīng)選用包含積極意義的詞匯。不定完詞a提示不能選用innovative,詞庫中 significant符合句意。
6.[F]定冠詞the提示此處應(yīng)填入名詞。前面講到福特汽車采用3-D打印技術(shù)制造最初模型，可知該技術(shù)可運用于汽車制造，詞庫中manufacturing符合句意。
7.[H] more...和higher-quality并列作定語修飾products。本段仍然是講3-D技術(shù)的優(yōu)點，故推斷空格是一個褒義詞,innovative符合句意。
8.[E]空格應(yīng)填入名詞，與on tight...構(gòu)成介詞短語，作后置定語修飾前面的product developers�？崭袂暗膖ight“緊的”與后面的more hands-on time前后形成對比，由此可見3-D技術(shù)出現(xiàn)之前產(chǎn)品研發(fā)人員的時間緊迫，deadlines填入文中構(gòu)成短語on tight deadlines，表示“時間緊迫，限期很短”，符合上下文語境。
9.[N]空格前的and表明空格應(yīng)該是和test并列的動詞原形。根據(jù)其后所接的賓語more versions of their prototypes,選用update，意為“研發(fā)人員可以利用3-D打印技術(shù)不斷測試和更新模具”。
10.[M]此處應(yīng)填入名詞、形容詞或動詞的分詞形式。3-D打印技術(shù)主要應(yīng)用于產(chǎn)品的研發(fā)、調(diào)整階段，因此產(chǎn)品在正式投人生產(chǎn)前還可以修改。填入空格的詞應(yīng)包含“修改，調(diào)整”之意，動詞refined“精煉;使完善”符合句意。
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