【正文】 60。 D. He is an adventurous thinker.37. Caspar succeeded in applying to Oxford because ________. A. he used in the exam the techniques provided by his father B. he read the book Teach Your Child How to think before the exam C. he was careful and often overworked D. all of his school teachers thought he had a chance38. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that Edward _________. A. was prompted to study lateral thinking because his son was slightly dyslexic B. once taught businessmen how to think before he wrote for parents and children C. was likely to improve children39。s logic with his book D. gave a description of lateral thinking several years after his son was born39. According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements expresses Edward de Bone39。s view? A. We often think ineffectively because we take too limited a view. B. Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence. C. Everybody knows that children aren39。t very logical. D. h is an uphill battle trying to teach children to think.40. Lateral thinking refers to the following EXCEPT _______. A. seeing the implications of what you are saying B. exploring the alternatives for what you are saying C. improving one39。s logic in thinkingD. improving one39。s perception in thinkingPassage Two For millions of years before die appearance of die electric light, shift work, allnight cable TV and die Internet, earth39。s creatures evolved on a planet with predictable and reassuring 24hour rhythms. Our biological clocks are set for this daily cycle. Simply, our bodies want to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Most women and men need between eight and eight and a half hours of sleep a night to function properly throughout their lives. (Contrary to popular belief, humans don’t need less sleep as they age.) But on average, Americans sleep only about seven and a half hour per night, a marked drop from the nine hours they averaged in 1910. What39。s worse, nearly one third of all Americans get less than six hours of sleep on a typical work night. For most people, that39。s not nearly enough. Finding ways to get more and better sleep can be a challenge. Scientists have identified more than 80 different sleep disorders. Some sleeping disorders are genetic. But many problems are caused by staying up late and by traveling frequently between time zone or by working nights. Dr. James F. Jones at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver says that sleep disorders are often diagnosed as other disforts. About one third of the patients referred to him with possible chronic fatigue syndrome actually have treatable sleep disorders. “Before we do anything else, we look at their sleep,” Jones says. Sleep experts say that most people would benefit from a good look at their sleep patterns. My motto (座右銘) is 39。Sleep defensively39。, says Mary Carskadon of Brown University. She says people need to carve out sufficient time to sleep, even if it means giving up other things. Sleep routines l/ire going to bed and getting up at the same time every day are important. Prebedtime activities also make a difference. As with Eisner, who used to suffer from sleeplessness, a few life style changes—avoiding stimulants and late meals, exercising hours before bedtime, relaxing with a hot bath—yield better sleep.41. What is TRUE of human sleep? A. On average, people in the U. S. today sleep less per night than they used to. B. For most people, less than six hoers of sleep on a typical work night is enough, C. Most people need less sleep when they grow older. D. Most people need seven and a half hems of sleep every night42. For our bodies to function properly, we should _______. A. adjust our activities to the new inventions B. be able to predict the rhythms of our biological clocks C. sleep for at least eight hours per night D. believe that we need less sleep as we age43. According to the author, many sleeping disorders are caused by _______. A. improper sleep patterns B. chronic fatigue syndrome C. other diseases D. prebedtime exercises 44. Which of the following measures can help you sleep better? A. Having late meals. B. Traveling between time zones C. Staying up late. D. Taking a hot bath.45. Sleep defensively means that ~ A. people should sacrifice other things to getting enough sleep if necessaryB. people should give up going to bed and getting up at the same time every day. C. people should go to a doctor and have their problems diagnosed D. people should exercise immediately before going to bed every nightPassage ThreeThe media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People39。s Park that were occurring on campus. Same of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to pare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities.Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people39。s lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone munications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on live action such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities.In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict (裁定) in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury (陪審團) was able to acquit (宣布無罪) the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday