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My seat is very close to the screen. And the screen is too bright for me to sleep. Could you dim the screen ? 我的座位离屏幕很近。屏幕的光太亮了，影响我睡觉。您可以关掉屏幕吗？
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The doctor told Penny that too much ________ to the sun is bad for the skin.
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The Internet is a powerful tool, but make sure that you use it wisely for all the good value it offers and that you won’t let too much of a good thing become something bad. ( )
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John has been a smoker for 20 years and does not believe that smoking is bad for him. He often says “My grandfather smoked all his life and died when he was 92”. What sort of cognitive bias is this an example of?
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Techniques for ________ sleep wouldinvolve learning to control both mind and bodyso that sleep can occur.
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What is the F&B Department responsible for?
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听力原文：A： The rain is going to continue till tomorrow. I wanted to take you to see the park. But it's too wet for that. And it's obvious that we cannot walk around the sights you suggested, Jack. Too bad!
B：Yes, it's a shame.
The man's purpose in visiting was to______.
A．take a course.
B．see the city.
C．go to the park.
D．take a rest.
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It is difficult to conceive how, even for those people well disposed to rule themselves, the attempt to achieve happiness should be rendered so______by one single curse, that of a bad form. of government.
A．laudatory
B．ineffectual
C．corrupt
D．disorganized
E．ill-tempered
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It is ______ bad for yours lf ______ for our daughter and me.
A．both...and...
B．not only...but also...
C．as...as...
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— Smoking is bad for your health— Yes, I knowBut I simply can' t______.
A．give it up
B．give it in
C．give it out
D．give it away
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Your body cannot make up for______ sleep or rest time because it is not physiologically possible.
A．losing
B．lose
C．losen
D．lost
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Vitamin B is essential for human body.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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It is _____ for Tom to get up so early today. He always sleeps till twelve o’clock. （
It is _____ for Tom to get up so early today. He always sleeps till twelve o’clock. (usual)
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Since pleasure is the first good and natural to us, for this very reason we do not choose every pleasure, but sometimes we pass over many pleasures, when greater discomfort accrues to us as the result of them; and similarly we think many pains better than pleasures, since a greater pleasure comes to us when we have endured pains for a long time. Every pleasure then because of its natural kinship to us is good, yet not every pleasure is to be chosen; even as every pain is also an evil, yet not all are always of a nature to be avoided. Yet by a scale of comparison and by the consideration of advantages and disadvantages we must form. our judgement on all these matters. For the good on certain occasions we treat as bad, and conversely the bad as good.
We must consider that of desires some are natural, others vain, and of the natural some are necessary and others merely natural; and of the necessary some are necessary for happiness, others for the repose of the body, and others for very life.
Unhappiness comes either through fear or through vain and unbridled desire; but if a man curbs these, he can win for himself' the blessedness of understanding. Of desires, all that do not lead to a sense of pain, if they are not satisfied, are not necessary, but involve a craving which is easily dispelled, when the object is hard to procure or they seem likely to produce harm. Wherever in the case of desires which are natural, but do not lead to a sense of pain, if they are not fulfilled, the effort is intense, such pleasures are due to idle imagination, and it is not owing to their own nature that they fail to be dispelled, but owing to the empty imaginings of the man.
The disturbance of the soul cannot be ended nor true joy created either by the possession of the greatest wealth or by honour and respect in the eyes of the mob or by anything else that is associated with causes of unlimited desires. We must not violate nature, but obey her; and we shah obey her if we fulfil the necessary desires and also the natural, if they bring no harm to us, but sternly reject the harmful. The man who follows nature and not vain opinions is independent in all things. For in reference to unlimited desires even the greatest wealth is not riches but poverty.
Insofar as you are in difficulties, it is because you forget nature; for you create for yourself unlimited fears and desires. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
What does "greater discomfort accrues to us" in Paragraph 1 mean here？
A．We get greater discomfort over a period of time.
B．We are tortured by greater discomfort.
C．Greater discomfort exists in our body.
D．Greater discomfort makes us miserable.
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There＇s no right amount of sleep for everyone，and generally sleep requirements decrease with age．
A．每个人都没有恰当的睡眠量，一般来说，睡眠需求会随着年龄增长而减少。
B．每个人所需的睡眠时间不尽相同，一般是随着年龄的增长而减少。
C．睡眠不足者需求的睡眠量一般都随着年龄而减少。
D．一个人没有固定的睡眠时间，一般会缩短寿命。
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The phrase "litmus test" is in bad odor for good reason: politicians should be judged on a variety of positions, not just one. But deep down, nearly every voter has at least one litmus test— an issue so personally important that a politician who fails the test is forever tainted, or at least excluded from consideration for the presidency.
I inherited my one litmus test from my father, Jim Alter, who flew 33 harrowing missions over Nazi Germany during World War 11. My father is not just a veteran who by all odds should not have survived. He is a true patriot. His litmus test is the proposal to amend the Constitution to ban flag burning, which will come up for a vote next week in the U. S. Senate. For dad—and me—any member of Congress who supports amending the Bill of Rights for the first time in the history of this country for a nonproblem like flag burning is showing serious disrespect for our Constitution and for the values for which brave Americans gave their lives. Such disrespect is a much more serious threat than the random idiots who once every decade or so try (often unsuccessfully) to burn a flag.
Our understandable outrage at flag burning shouldn't turn our brains to mush. "I feel the same sense of outrage, but I would not amend that great shield of democracy (the Constitution) to hammer a few miscreants," Colin Powell said when the issue last came up (his position has not changed). "The flag will be flying proudly long after they have slunk away." Powell argues that a constitutional ban on flag burning is a sign of weakness and fear.
John Glenn, another of the thousands of combat veterans against the amendment (they have banded together in a group called Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights), notes that "those 10 amendments we call the Bill of Rights have never been changed or altered by one iota, not by one word, not a single time in all of American history. There was not a single change during any of our foreign wars, and not during recessions or depressions or panics. Not a single change when we were going through times of great emotion and anger like the Vietnam era, when flag after flag was burned or desecrated. There is only one way to weaken our nation. The way to weaken our nation would be to erode the freedom that we all share."
Actually, even during the Vietnam War, flag burning was rare. By one count, there have been only 45 such incidents in 200 years, and fewer than half a dozen since it was outlawed in 1989. Should the Constitution be amended, however, the incidence of flag burning is expected to surge as a form. of civil disobedience. What began as a phony issue designed to prove patriotism (usually on the part of those who never served, the primary sponsors) could become a real concern.
The flag-burning amendment, which already passed the House, is apparently just short of the 67 needed in the Senate. With one or two absences, the amendment would be approved. It would then go to the states for ratification, where its chances for approval appear good.
Senators afraid of being seen as soft on flag burners should just adopt the Hillary Clinton dodge: support for a statute, but not an amendment. Another law is a dopey idea (an earlier one was struck down by the Supreme Court), but it's politically safe and better than perverting the Constitution.
To make matters worse, the amendment is vaguely worded, which led to fatuous debate in the Senate over whether a woman wearing a skimpy bathing suit patterned with stars and stripes was guilty of desecration. Bloggers wondered the same thing about President Bush's new habit of autographing flags when he shakes hands on rope lines. Unconstitutional？ With a war on and a hundred other pressing problems, it's nice to see our elected representatives focused on what really counts.
The usual litmus tests-abortion, gun control, Iraq-shouldn't be. Reasonable and sincere people can disagree, w
A．The effectiveness of litmus test is greatly undermined by its failure to judge politicians on a variety of positions.
B．It's unfair to exclude a politician who fails a certain litmus test from the presidency.
C．Current litmus tests like abortion or gun control are not reliable indicators of public opinions.
D．Some specific litmus tests on certain issues axe fundamental in shaping people' s judgment of politicians.
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It is sleeping late in the evening that______being late for work.
A．devotes to
B．sticks to
C．refers to
D．leads to
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Relaxed throat muscles block the airway of a sleeping person and leads to his/her snoring.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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听力原文： Each night we alternate between two kinds of sleep: active sleep and passive sleep. The passive sleep gives our body the rest that is needed, and prepares us for active sleep, in which dreaming takes place. And we arc beginning to understand the importance of the dream period in our sleep cycles.
In passive sleep the body is at rest. We move very little. And the brain becomes very inactive, ff a person continues to sleep, she or he enters anew period, a more active period. The body goes through several changes: the brain temperature rises, blood in the brain increases, the body becomes very still and the brain goes into active state. And as the brain goes active, the eyes begin to move rapidly. And that is the sign of another change---the person is dreaming. Throughout the night, people alternate between passive and active sleep. Doctors have studied the sleep cycle and have found that everyone dreams---in fact, that everyone needs to dream in order to stay healthy. It appears we need both kind of sleep. We need passive sleep in order to rest our bodies. We need active sleep in order to dream. And dreaming helps us to rest our minds,
What does not happen in the brain in the active sleep？
A．The brain becomes very active.
B．The brain becomes very inactive.
C．The brain temperature rises.
D．The brain blood rises.
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There must be few questions on which responsible opinion is so utterly divided as on that of how much sleep we ought to have. There are some who think we can leave the body to regulate these matters for itself. "The answer is easy," says Dr. A. Burton. "With the tight amount of sleep you should wake up fresh and alert five minutes before the alarm tings." If he is right many people must be under sleeping, including myself. But we must remember that some people have a greater inertia than others. This is not meant rudely. They switch on Slowly, and they are reluctant to switch off. They are alert at bedtime and sleepy when it is time to get up, and this may have nothing to do with how fatigued their bodies are, or how much sleep they must take to lose their fatigue.
Other people feel sure that the present trend is towards too little sleep. To quote one medical opinion, "Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep. Like advancing colonists, we do seem to be grasping ever more of the land of sleep for our waking needs, pushing the boundary back and reaching, apparently, for a point in our evolution where we will sleep no more. This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing. What could be disastrous, however, is that we should press too quickly towards this goal, sacrificing sleep only to gain more time in which to jeopardize our civilization by actions and decisions made weak by fatigue.
Then, to complete the picture, there are those who believe that most people are persuaded to sleep too much. Dr. H. Roberts, writing in Every Man in Health, asserts it may safely be stated also. It would be a pity to retard our development by holding back those people who are gifted enough to work and play well with less than the average amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm. If one of the trends of evolution is that more of the life span is to be spent in gainful waking activity, then surely these people are in the van of this advance.
The author seems to indicate that ______.
A．there are many controversial issues like the right amount of sleep
B．among many issues the right amount of sleep is the least controversial
C．people are now moving towards solving many controversial issues
D．the right amount of sleep is a topic of much controversy among doctors
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Some people claim that television is good for children because it gets children cleverer by watching it，while others think that television is bad for children．Write an article to express your point of view on this topic．
You should write no less than 250 words．Write your article on ANSWER SHEET 2．
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The incident occurred during the Toronto Zoo’s 28th annual Christmas Treats Walk, where admission is free in return for donation of food that does not easily go bad.Thousands of people attend each Boxing Day to see the animals fed by their handlers.
We know from the passage that____.
A、the tiger escape lasted a whole day
B、the zoo workers planned to shoot the tiger dead
C、the tiger wasn’t kept securely enough from the public
D、the incident took place on the zoo’s anniversary day
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You have been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give you a blood transfusion because you lost a great deal of blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for you. If the blood is too different from your own, the transfusion could kill you. There are four basic types of blood: A, B, AB, and O. A simple test can indicate a person's blood type, which, like hair color and height, is inherited from parents. Because of substances contained in each type, the four groups must be transfused carefully. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can give to any other group; hence, it is often called the universal donor. For the opposite reason, AB is sometimes called the universal recipient. However, because so many reactions can occur in transfusions, patients usually receive only salt or plasma (liquid) until their
1、A good title for this passage is ________.
A、Getting Blood and Plasma
B、Special Blood Types
C、Human Blood Types
D、The Blood Bank of a Hospital
2、The word "hence" in line 10 means _________
A、always
B、 often
C、 therefore
D、 seldom
3、In a blood transfusion, it is easiest to find the acceptable type of blood for a person with the blood type of ________
A、A
B、 B
C、 AB
D、 O
4、The purpose of using salt and plasma before a blood transfusion is to allow time ______.
A、to test the reactions to the transfusion
B、for matching the blood to be transfused with the patient's blood
C、 for the blood to be delivered from the blood bank
D、 to select a new type of blood for the patient
5、Most Europeans have blood type _________
A、A
B、B
C、O
D、A or O
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If it is not dark enough, or too noisy, this may cause difficulty in sleeping. Eating shortly before going to bed may also be responsible for insomnia
