On Sleep
Baekeland and Hartmann report that the "short sleepers" had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 or so, the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other ac-tivities. These men tended to view their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome inter-ruptions in their daily routines.
In general, these "short sleepers" appeared ambitious, active, energetic, cheerful, con-formist(不动摇) in their opinions, and very sure about their career choices. They often held sev-eral jobs at once, or workers full or part-time while going to school. And many of them had a strong urge to appear "normal" or "acceptable" to their friends and associates.
When asked to recall their dreams, the "short sleepers" did poorly. More than this, they seemed to prefer not remembering. In similar fashion, their usual way of dealing with psychologi-cal problems was to deny that the problem existed, and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble would go away.
The sleep patterns of the "short sleepers" were similar to, but less extreme than, sleep pat-terns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic (疯人).
The "long sleepers" were quite different indeed. Baekeland and Hartmann report that these young men had been lengthy sleeps since childhood. They seemed to enjoy their sleep, protected it, and were quite concerned when they were occasionally deprived of their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to recall their dreams much better than did the "short sleepers. "
Many of the "long sleepers" were shy, anxious, introverted (内向), inhibited (压抑),passive, mildly depressed, and unsure of themselves (particularly in social situations). Several openly states that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.
According to the report, __________. 查看材料
A.many short sleepers need less sleep by nature
B.many short sleepers are obliged to reduce their nightly sleep time because they are busy with their work
C.long sleepers sleep a longer period of time during the day
D.many long sleepers preserve their sleeping habit formed during their childhood
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A: I sleep late on Sundays. B: So()I.
A . have
B . do
C . am
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sleep()和wait()有什么区别?
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public class TestOne { public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception { Thread.sleep(3000); System.out.println(”sleep”); } } What is the result?()
A . Compilation fails.
B . An exception is thrown at runtime.
C . The code executes normally and prints “sleep”.
D . The code executes normally, but nothing is printed.
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You can sleep on the couch in the lounge _ you can go to a nearly hotel.
A . or
B . then
C . and
D . but
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Based on the result of the UK Sleep Council’s survey,what would happen if companies allow workers to follow their natural sleeping habits?
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Priestley proves the thesis statement of his famous essay “On Getting Off to Sleep” with one example: his ______ in sleep.
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Who is the author of “On Getting Off to Sleep”?
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a) Working wives sleep (on average) ___________________________ than working husbands.Housewives, on the other hand, sleep only about ___________________________ than theirworking husbands.
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What does the phrase \sleep late\ mean?
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Techniques for ________ sleep wouldinvolve learning to control both mind and bodyso that sleep can occur.
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Not all men follow the sleep cycle.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
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What most commonly occurs in REM sleep?
A.Lucid dreams.
B.Nightmares.
C.Daymares.
D.Indistinct dreams.
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People who cant get to sleep are advised to sleep at______.
A.any time in a day as long as one wishes
B.the time when one plans to sleep
C.a very early time at night
D.a very late time at night
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让进程暂停执行,可使用函数()A.sleep
B.pause
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The evolution theory explains the differences in sleep among animals.英译汉The evolution theory explains the differences in sleep among animals.英译汉
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UI测试中sleep语句可用于()。
A.重置测试
B.开机
C.关机
D.等待若干时间再继续执行
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The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".()
是
否
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There's no right amount of sleep for everyone,and generally sleep requirements decrease with age.
A.每个人都没有恰当的睡眠量,一般来说,睡眠需求会随着年龄增长而减少。
B.每个人所需的睡眠时间不尽相同,一般是随着年龄的增长而减少。
C.睡眠不足者需求的睡眠量一般都随着年龄而减少。
D.一个人没有固定的睡眠时间,一般会缩短寿命。
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Mobile Phones:Are They about to Transform. Our Lives? We love them so much that some of us sleep with them under the pillow,yet we are increasingly concerned that we cannot escape their electronic reach.We use them to convey our most intimate secrets,yet we worry that they are a threat to our privacy.We rely on them more than the lnternet to cope with modern life,yet many of us don’t believe advertisements saying we need more advanced services.
Sweeping aside the doubts that many people feel about the benefits of new third generation phones and fears over the health effects of phone masts(天线竿),a recent report clains that the long-term effects of new mobile technologies will be entirely positive so long as the public can be convinced to make use of them.Research about users of mobile phones reveals that the mobile has already moved beyond being a mere practical communications tool to become the backbone (支柱)of modern social life,from love affairs to friendship to work.One female teacher,32,told the researchers:“I love my phone.It’s my friend.”
The close relationship between user and phone is most pronounced among teenagers,the report says,who regard their mobiles as an expression of their identity.This is partly because mobiles are seen as being beyond the control of parents.But the researchers suggest that another reason may be that mobiles,especially taxt messaging,are seen as a way of overcoming shyness.“Texting is often used for apologies,to excuse lateness or to communicate other things that make us uncomfortable,”the report says,The impact of phones,however,has been local rather than global,supporting existing friendships and networks,rather than opening users to a new broader community.Even the language of texting in one area can be incomprehensible to anybody from another area.
Among the most important benefits of using mobile phones,the report claims,will be a vastly improved mobile infrastructure(基础设施),providing gains throughout the economy,and the provision of a more sophisticated location-based services for users.The report calls on govemment to put more effort into the delivery of services by bobile phone,with suggestions including public transport and traffic information and doctors’ text messages to remind patients of appointments.“I love that idea,”one user said in an interview.“It would mean I wouldn’t have to write a hundred messages to myself.”
There are many other possibilities.At a recent trade fair in Sweden,a mobile navigation product was launched.When the user enters a destination,a route is automatically downloaded to their mobile and presented by voice,pictures and maps as they drive.In future,these devices will also be able to plan around congestion(交通堵塞)and road works in real time.Third generation phones will also allow for remote monitoring of patients by doctors.In Britain scientists are developing a asthma(哮喘)management solution,using mobiles to detect early signs of an attack.
第11题:What does the writer suggest in the first paragraph about our attitudes to mobile phones?
A.We can’t live without them.
B.We are worried about using them so much.
C.We have contradictory feelings about them.
D.We need them more than anything else to deal with modem life.
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On April the 18th, 1960, it was a few minutes after 5 o'clock in the morning. Most people in San Francisco were a-sleep, but the rattling of the milkmen's carts and bottles meant that the city was waking to another busy day.
At that moment the land suddenly moved. The vibration was so strong that great buildings fell down, including the new seven-million-dollar City Hall, which the community had good reason to be proud of. Main water pipes burst. Cooking stoves overturned and electric wires flashed. The fires which started caused damage in large areas of the city.
What had happened.'? The rocks had broken apart along nearly three hundred miles of a crack in the earth of California, a feature of the physical map of that region known as a "fault".
The damage was greatest in San Francisco which was near the center of the fault. Many buildings were destroyed by fire or by the earthquake itself, and hundreds of people were killed. Many people also died from diseases which broke out in the dirty camps later occupied by homeless people. The fires got out of control and, before they died out, four square mi-les of the city were burnt out.
The loss of property was serious. The loss from fire alone amounted to 400,000,000 dollars, more than nine-tenths of the total damage. In those days this was an enormous sum.
The effects of the earthquake were widespread. Rivers and streams began to run in new directions and their flow pat-terns were changed. Trees six feet in diameter were uprooted within half a mile of the central break. An area of wet fields on the side of a hill actually moved half a mile downwards. A road which crossed the fault burst apart and a gap of 21 feet remained between the broken ends.
The California earthquake is remembered because it was so sudden and because it occurred in a city, where the dam-age and destruction were plainly visible and where many people were killed simultaneously. Actually, deaths on American roads from car accidents are now greater in almost any week of the year, but we are so accustomed to road accidents that we do not pay much attention to them.
Scientists and engineers studied the effects of the San Francisco earthquake. The city was rebuilt, and new features were introduced to strengthen buildings and maintain a constant water supply in the event of. another earthquake. The water mains were fitted with control values which would enable water to travel by different routes round broken places. Large underground tanks were constructed to supply water if normal supplies could not be tapped. Special measures were taken to prevent fires, which often do more damage than earthquakes themselves.
The San Francisco earthquake provided scientists with valuable information, since the effects of the break were visible and reports of the incident were an important contribution to the world's store of knowledge about earthquakes.
The main cause of the great loss of property 'after the San Francisco earthquake in 1960 is______.
A.falling buildings
B.broken pipes
C.fires
D.floods
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What occurred before Baju went to sleep?
A.He felt uncomfortable to lie on the mat and complained.
B.He wanted his mother to move as close to him as possible.
C.He learned a lot about the legendary hero Devaka.
D.His father returned soon.
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听力原文: Each night we alternate between two kinds of sleep: active sleep and passive sleep. The passive sleep gives our body the rest that is needed, and prepares us for active sleep, in which dreaming takes place. And we arc beginning to understand the importance of the dream period in our sleep cycles.
In passive sleep the body is at rest. We move very little. And the brain becomes very inactive, ff a person continues to sleep, she or he enters anew period, a more active period. The body goes through several changes: the brain temperature rises, blood in the brain increases, the body becomes very still and the brain goes into active state. And as the brain goes active, the eyes begin to move rapidly. And that is the sign of another change---the person is dreaming. Throughout the night, people alternate between passive and active sleep. Doctors have studied the sleep cycle and have found that everyone dreams---in fact, that everyone needs to dream in order to stay healthy. It appears we need both kind of sleep. We need passive sleep in order to rest our bodies. We need active sleep in order to dream. And dreaming helps us to rest our minds,
What does not happen in the brain in the active sleep?
A.The brain becomes very active.
B.The brain becomes very inactive.
C.The brain temperature rises.
D.The brain blood rises.
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There must be few questions on which responsible opinion is so utterly divided as on that of how much sleep we ought to have. There are some who think we can leave the body to regulate these matters for itself. "The answer is easy," says Dr. A. Burton. "With the tight amount of sleep you should wake up fresh and alert five minutes before the alarm tings." If he is right many people must be under sleeping, including myself. But we must remember that some people have a greater inertia than others. This is not meant rudely. They switch on Slowly, and they are reluctant to switch off. They are alert at bedtime and sleepy when it is time to get up, and this may have nothing to do with how fatigued their bodies are, or how much sleep they must take to lose their fatigue.
Other people feel sure that the present trend is towards too little sleep. To quote one medical opinion, "Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep. Like advancing colonists, we do seem to be grasping ever more of the land of sleep for our waking needs, pushing the boundary back and reaching, apparently, for a point in our evolution where we will sleep no more. This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing. What could be disastrous, however, is that we should press too quickly towards this goal, sacrificing sleep only to gain more time in which to jeopardize our civilization by actions and decisions made weak by fatigue.
Then, to complete the picture, there are those who believe that most people are persuaded to sleep too much. Dr. H. Roberts, writing in Every Man in Health, asserts it may safely be stated also. It would be a pity to retard our development by holding back those people who are gifted enough to work and play well with less than the average amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm. If one of the trends of evolution is that more of the life span is to be spent in gainful waking activity, then surely these people are in the van of this advance.
The author seems to indicate that ______.
A.there are many controversial issues like the right amount of sleep
B.among many issues the right amount of sleep is the least controversial
C.people are now moving towards solving many controversial issues
D.the right amount of sleep is a topic of much controversy among doctors
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Be quiet! Your dad ()(sleep).