【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 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。t do well without more. But the survey found that, on weekdays, only 21% of Americans actually get a full eight hours of sleep, and another 21% get less than six hours. 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。re likely to have better skin, better memories, better judgment, and, oh, yes, longer lives. “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. 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。t function as well during the day. 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。t be in top physical shape unless we also get plenty of sleep.”（1）The underlined part in Paragraph 1 means . A.waking up the sleepersB.drawing people39。s attentionC.serving as a morning callD.declaring the special day（2）From Paragraph 3 we can infer that . A.being healthier is one of the advantages for usB.sleeping has nothing to do with one39。s expectationsC.enough sleep is the guarantee of the appealing thingsD.spending more time in sleeping is a waste of time（3）What Jennifer Vriend said in the last paragraph implies that . A.people care little about sleepingB.sleeping is an image problemC.lazy people tend to sleep longD.sleeping is only part of our life（4）What is the purpose of the passage? A.To talk about people39。s sleeping problems.B.To provide an investigation result of sleeping.C.To stress the function of sleeping at night.D.To arouse the awareness of enough sleep.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，充足的睡眠對(duì)我們非常重要,為了引起人們的足夠重視,3月21日被宣布為世界睡眠日。 （1）考查詞義猜測(cè)。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(duì)睡眠的重視。由此可知,a wakeup call含有警鐘的意思。與B項(xiàng)表述的意思相近,故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。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C。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“We put so much emphasis on diet, nutrition and exercise. Sleep is in the back seat.”可知,人們注重飲食、營(yíng)養(yǎng)和鍛煉,不很重視睡眠。故選A。 （4）考查推理判斷。這篇文章旨在讓人們意識(shí)到充足睡眠的重要性,呼吁人們關(guān)注睡眠問題。故選D。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及詞義猜測(cè)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。5．閱讀理解 It39。s not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we39。re doing. I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said I39。ll pencil it in my diary, and my friend said You can ink it in, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one! Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we39。d fax it immediately. Then along came , and we were soon all ing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily s. Email reminds me, of course, of my puter and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my puter I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I39。ll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don39。t bookmark。 I favorite—ing from favorite pages, so the verb es from an adjective not a noun. Now my children bought me a mobile phone, known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message for them on their phone. Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven39。t heard that verb yet, but I39。m sure I will soon. Perhaps I39。ll start using it myself!（1）I39。ll pencil it in my diary in the second paragraph probably means . was a firm arrangement prefers a pencil to a pen arrangement should be written as a diary was an uncertain arrangement（2）A website address can be easily found if it has been______. （3）Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet? （4）The best title for this passage is____. and Language. of the English language Technology and New words Verbs from Nouns【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，通過多個(gè)例子告訴我們很多名詞都已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)換成了動(dòng)詞。說明詞匯是并不斷的在變化。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!”用鉛筆寫意為著不是最終的決定，只是臨時(shí)的決定，故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的“I favorite—ing from ‘favorite pages’, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun.”我把這些網(wǎng)站設(shè)置成我最喜歡的網(wǎng)站，通過這種方法可以讓我很快就找到這些網(wǎng)站。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“and we were soon all ing each other madly. ”；第四段中的“I favorite—ing from ‘favorite pages’, so the verb