【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 eight hours or more every night. The general sleeping rule is that the younger you are. The longer sleep you need. But regardless of（不管）age, some people need to sleep more while for some a few hours is enough. The problem with sleep is that more and more people in the world are not sleeping enough. According to the World Health Organization over half the people in the world may be sleepdeprived. Having less sleep not only makes people feel tired but also causes accidents. In the United States alone, sleepy drivers cause at least 100,000 traffic accidents a year. Also sleep problems can cause medical problems such as high blood pressure（血壓）. Why are so many people sleepdeprived? Part of the reasons may be cultural. In the American culture, people put a higher value on work than on sleep. In fact, people who sleep a lot are usually seen as lazy. Also, you can sometimes hear some people say proudly that they don39。t have much time to sleep. They only sleep four or five hours a night. It seems that the less you sleep, the more work you39。ll do. How do we teach these people to learn the value of sleep? Perhaps they may listen to the advice of Dr. James Maas. an expert（專家） in sleep. He says, Sleep is like a credit （信用卡） card. When you sleep less. You are only borrowing time. You always have to pay it back. The more hours you don39。t sleep, the more hours you should t sleep to pay back the hours on your 39。sleep credit card.39。 For those who value work more than sleep, they should listen to what a famous person once said. Don39。t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the night. That is a foolish（愚蠢的） idea which is held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to do more.（1）According to the writer, the easiest and cheapest way to improve health is to . A.eat healthy food every dayB.take exercise as much as possibleC.get medical help whenever necessaryD.sleep eight hours or more every night（2）What does sleepdeprived mean in Paragraph 2? A.Having a good sleep.B.Excited about sleep.C.Having less sleep.D.Interested in sleep.（3）According to Dr. James Maas. What is sleep like? A.An hour.B.A report.C.A credit card.D.A piece of paper.（4）What do the words of the famous person mean in Paragraph 5? A.Sleeping during the night is foolish.B.Sleeping during the night is helpful.C.People have no courage.D.People always do less work.（5）What is the best title of the passage39。? A.The Value of SleepB.The Value of StudyC.The Ways of Eating LessD.The Ways of Making Money【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）C（4）B（5）A 【解析】【分析】文章大意：世界上越來越多的人睡眠不足。睡眠不足不僅使人感到疲勞，而且還會(huì)造成事故，也可能導(dǎo)致醫(yī)療問題，這必須引起人們的重視。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的語句But the easiest and cheapest way to improve your health is just to sleep eight hours or more every night.理解可知，改善健康的最簡單和最便宜的方法就是睡眠時(shí)間每晚至少8個(gè)小時(shí)。故選D。 （2）詞義推斷題。根據(jù)文中的語句According to the World Health Organization over half the people in the world may be ，世界上一半以上的人可能睡眠不足。sleepdeprived表示睡眠不足，故選C。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的語句Perhaps they may listen to the advice of Dr. James Maas. an expert（專家） in sleep. He says, Sleep is like a credit （信用卡） card. 可知，睡眠就像信用卡，故選C。 （4）理解歸納題。通讀第五段內(nèi)容可知，此段主要說明了睡眠的重要性，故選B。 （5）理解歸納題。通讀全文可知，本文主要介紹了睡眠的價(jià)值，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評】考查閱讀理解。本文考查細(xì)節(jié)題和主旨題等常考題型，細(xì)節(jié)題要注意從文中抓住關(guān)鍵詞尋找答案；主旨題需要通讀全文，了解大意之后找出主題句。6．閱讀理解 Hundreds of foreigners got together in a small neighborhood in Qingdao on the afternoon of April 20 because of the Neighbor Day, an 18day event celebrated across Qingdao. They learned the arts of Chinese handwriting, dumpling making, paper cutting, and discovered the culture of Chinese family trees. The festival started 12 years ago after a 10yearold girl called Sun Ruihan was refused when paying a New Year39。s visit to her neighbor. Upset by this incident, she wrote to the Shibei district government of Qingdao, suggesting that they should introduce a Neighbor Day to encourage greater spirit. As the birthplace of the festival, Shibei hosted the opening ceremony of this year39。s Neighbor Day on April 19. With the theme of ▲ , people from across the city got together to share their homemade food and discuss the family stories. They also set up a mobile neighbors39。 library to share books. Sarah from the United States said she had a great time with her neighbors as she experienced the art of Chinese paper cutting for the first time. Masha from Russia, who is studying Chinese at the Ocean University of China, described the event as a great chance to make friends with her Chinese neighbors and learn about the local culture with them. She tried her best at Chinese handwriting and also had great fun learning how to make dumplings. I love eating dumplings but I never knew how to make them before, she said. Now I can e to my neighbors39。 homes and learn in their kitchens. Neighbor Day grew from the needs of the people. With the big support from the government, it has bee another culture symbol of Qingdao.（1）Neighbor Day in Qingdao is a festival to . A.wele foreigners to QingdaoB.learn different western culturesC.make friends with neighborsD.help neighbors out of trouble（2）The underlined word incident in Paragraph 2 probably means in Chinese. A.事件