【正文】 ount only to 15. By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian friends in the most fundamental of math skills. But we don39。s book The Number Sense. As Dahaene explains: Chinese number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be spoken out in less than onequarter of a second (for instance, 4 is “si” and 7 “qi”). Their English pronunciations are longer. The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length.re almost certain to get it right every time. Why is that? Because we most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within a twosecond period. And unlike English, the Chinese language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds.3．閱讀理解 （4）考查推理判斷。故選C。由此可知,a wakeup call含有警鐘的意思。To stress the function of sleeping at night.D.sleeping is only part of our life（4）What is the purpose of the passage? A.lazy people tend to sleep longspending more time in sleeping is a waste of time（3）What Jennifer Vriend said in the last paragraph implies that being healthier is one of the advantages for usB.s attentionC.t be in top physical shape unless we also get plenty of sleep.”（1）The underlined part in Paragraph 1 means t function as well during the day. “When you lose even one hour of sleep for any reason, it influences your performance the next day,” says Dr. Alon Avidan, director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. To many of us, the thought of spending more time sleeping is, well, a big yawn. On the other hand, the thought of being smarter, thinner, healthier and more cheerful has a certain appeal. And those are just a few of the advantages that can be ours if we consistently get enough sleep, researchers say. Also on the plus side: We39。t get as much sleep as they should during the workweek. On average, adults are thought to need at least eight hours of sleep a night, although some can manage with less and some won39。 March 21 has been declared World Sleep Day, a time to recognize and celebrate the value of sleep. Many sleep experts hope it will be a wakeup call. 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，結(jié)合題目要求，從而選出正確答案。故選D。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。families with kids【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了幾個(gè)秋季的節(jié)日。visitors of all agesmodern artistsmovie loversThe duration of the festival.C.Seymour Apple Festival and Southside Fall Festival.C. The Southside Fall Festival is perfect for family celebrations, with an alcoholfree environment and free admission. Enjoy a colorful parade and float contest, delicious food vendors, live music, karaoke, and more.s lacking big fun. Perfect for all ages, this fall festival is celebrating its 70th year and will provide three full days of fun. This year39。 The popular Marionville Apple Festival is home to countless activities and events. The carnival, pony rides, and games will keep the kids busy, while adults will enjoy watching the pieeating contest and browsing dozens of craft vendor booths.t Want to Miss Fantastic Fall Festivals You Won39。 Seymour Apple Festival Humansville Fall Festivalt mean it39。 Fall Into Arts FestivalSouthside Fall Festival and Fall Into Arts Festival.B.Fun activities on Saturday.B. live performance.（3）Fall Into Arts Festival is specially weled by ________. A.B.C.D.故選B。s festival will feature live music from fantastic local musicians, which will definitely make it different from the ones in other years.”可知，今年的音樂節(jié)將以當(dāng)?shù)貎?yōu)秀音樂家的現(xiàn)場音樂為特色，使它有別于往年。故選D。 According to a poll (民意調(diào)查) by the National Sleep Foundation, nearly 4 in 5 Americans don39。 A study published last year found the same to be true even of children. When kids aged 8 to 12 slept for just one hour less for four nights, they didn39。 But sleeping has an image problem.“We see napping or sleeping as lazy,” says Jennifer Vriend, a clinical psychologist in Ottawa, Canada, and the leading author of the study with children.“We put so much emphasis on diet, nutrition and exercise. Sleep is in the back seat. In fact,”she adds,“no matter how much we work out, no matter how well we eat, we can39。drawing people39。. A.enough sleep is the guarantee of the appealing thingsD.sleeping is an image problemC.D.To provide an investigation result of sleeping.C.此處指,睡眠專家希望3月21日被宣布為世界睡眠日這件事會(huì)引起人們對睡眠的重視。根據(jù)第三段中的“On the other hand, the thought of being smarter, thinner, healthier and more cheerful has a certain appeal.”可知,充足的睡眠可以使我們更聰明、更苗條、更健康、更快樂等,這些都是有吸引力的事情。故選A。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及詞義猜測和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6. Read them loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering those perfectly. If you are Chinese, though, you39。 That example es from Stanislas Dahaene39。 It turns out that there is also a big difference in how numbernaming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen. The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an Englishspeaking sevenyearold to add thirtyseven plus twentytwo in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers (37+22). Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add threetensseven and twotenstwo, and then the necessary equation(等式) is right there, in the sentence. No number translation is necessary: it39。 When it es to mat