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ep every night. For students who are 10 to 17 years old, a healthy amount is about eight to nine hours every night. But many students don’t get enough sleep because of early school start time and heavy homework. About 80 percent of middle school students don’t get enough sleep, the China Youth and Children Research Center reported. For some students, they want to sleep early, but they keep worrying about their schoolwork and can’t fall asleep quickly. For others, they may even have insomnia, and usually they have to ask the doctors for help. These sleeping problems greatly *affect people’s life. Some doctors found out that *lack of sleep for teenagers lead to poor grades. Students without enough sleep cannot pay attention in class or do well in sports. Also, they often bee anxious easily. Luckily, with good sleep habits, it is easier to fall asleep. Some of these good habits include *avoiding drinks that make people excited late in the day, going to sleep at the same time every night, and sleeping in a fortable place that is dark, quiet, and neither too warm nor too cold. More tips to get a good night’s sleep:178。 but they soon found others.At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea.He put up a large notice (布告) made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glasshouses.On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE.After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble。 but this had not done any good.He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden。浙江臨海市2016中考英語(yǔ)閱讀理解二輪訓(xùn)練(一)及答案【牛刀小試】【能力選練】 A(來(lái)自2016中考英語(yǔ)模擬)閱讀下面短文或圖表,并選擇正確答案。There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life.He spent all his free time in one of his four glasshouses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for petitions (比賽).He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup (銀杯) for the Rose of the Year.Mr. Flowers’ glasshouses were very near to a middle school.Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引誘) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers’ glasshouses.So did his best to be in or near his glasshouses at the beginning and end of the school day.But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times.Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful.He had been to school to report to the headmaster。 but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away.He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw。 the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glasshouses.31.It was Mr. Flo