Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep or sleep restfully. It is a problem to nearly everyone at some time. A person may be awake for an hour in the middle of the night and then, next morning, feel that he hardly sleep all night. Normally, worry about not getting enough sleep is the worst aspect of most insomnia. If insomnia happens again and again, however, it is important to find its causes and try to correct them, with the help of a doctor if necessary.

       Any of a large number of simple factors may make it difficult for someone to fall asleep or remain asleep. His mattress （床墊） may be too soft or too hard. If there are too many blankets on a hot night, he may be too warm; if the bedclothes are too light he may feel cold during the night. If it is not dark enough, or too noisy, this may cause difficulty in sleeping. Eating shortly before going to bed also be responsible for insomnia. Stimulating drinks, such as tea or coffee, can also keep people awake.

       Inability to fall asleep is sometimes a symptom（癥狀） of emotional or mental disorders. Insomnia may also be caused by pain and, very rarely, it can be a symptom of a physical disease.

       The cause of insomnia may be easy to correct. The sufferer should check the mattress, bedclothes and bedroom temperature, and make any necessary changes. An eye mask keeps out the light and ear-plugs shut out sound. He should relax for an hour or two before bedtime, perhaps by reading a book; watching TV or taking a warm bath. If he wakes during the night he should try turning on the light and reading for a while. Taking warm milk and a biscuit or two may be helpful. Above all, he should try not to worry about sleeplessness when someone is tired enough he nearly always falls asleep.

       If necessary, a doctor may prescribe （開處方） tranquillizers （鎮(zhèn)靜劑） or sleeping pills. Take only the dosage he prescribes; any more is dangerous.

1．According to the writer, insomnia is _________.

       A．a(chǎn) rare problem                        B．a(chǎn) sign of illness

       C．a(chǎn) common complaint                   D．a(chǎn) modern disease

2．People who have difficulty sleeping should sleep in_________.

       A．a(chǎn) light room                          B．a(chǎn) dark room

       C．a(chǎn) cold room                          D．a(chǎn) warm room

3．Insomnia needn’t be taken seriously because__________.

       A．people can catch on sleep during the day 

       B．many people sleep far too much

       C．it can easily be cured by doctors

       D．it is cured naturally by tiredness

4．The main cure for insomnia is_________.

       A．not to read too much at night                B．not to eat too much for supper

       C．not to watch too much television        D．not to get too anxious about sleeping

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A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven’t seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.
His father’s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from insomnia (失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watching his father’s condition, became annoyed and told his father to keep silent and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.
After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious (失去知覺(jué)). My friend was very sorry for speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his father’s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.
Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days, hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as long as we (or they) live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to us, they are always at our side.
Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent （天真無(wú)邪的）word of “no” come out from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children. There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that we most complain about, but never have them.
Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is dwelling.
【小題1】Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer’s friend?

A．SadB．SorryC．RegretfulD．Pitiful
【小題2】What does the underlined word “rectify” mean in Para. 3?
A．put…rightB．recite…by heart
C．realizeD．recognize
【小題3】What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?
A．Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old.
B．Be good to your parents when you still have the chance.
C．You will regret in your life if you don’t show your kindness to your parents.
D．It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents.

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A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven’t seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.　　
His father’s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from insomnia (失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watching his father’s condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silent and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.　　
After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious (失去知覺(jué)). My friend was very sorry for speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his father’s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.　　
Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days, hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as long as we (or they) live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to us, they are always at our side.
Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent word of “no” come out from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children. There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that we most complain about, but never have them.
Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is dwelling.
【小題1】Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer’s friend?

A．SadB．SorryC．RegretfulD．Pitiful
【小題2】What does the underlined word “rectify” mean in Para. 3?
A．put…rightB．recite…by heart C．realizeD．recognize
【小題3】What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?
A．Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old.
B．Be good to your parents when you still have the chance.
C．You will regret in your life if you don’t show your kindness to your parents.
D．It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents.

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“There’s a biological reason why teens stay up late and want to sleep late,” says Dr. Stan Kutcher, the Sun Life Chair of Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “Their natural sleep-wake cycle changes as part of the maturation process. And because of changes in their social activities, recovering from sleep debt is more problematic.”
Teens need extra sleep for several reasons. First, their brains are changing. “The brain is reorganizing itself, laying down new pathways. What we’re seeing is a relationship between brain redevelopment and an increased need for sleep,” says Kutcher. As well, growth hormones are released during sleep, so adequate sleep is crucial for adolescents’ physical development. In addition, everything adolescents have learned in school that day is being processed and locked into long-term memory during sleep. Sufficient sleep also plays a key role in overall physical health. The immune system, for example, needs deep sleep to become and remain robust(healthy).
Staying up late on school nights means that, on average, teens get between six and a half and seven hours of sleep a night---about two hours less than they need. As a result, many either doze off in class or have trouble concentrating. Some of the behavioural problems and irritability in teens can be linked directly to sleep deprivation(損失), Kutcher says.
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【小題1】The word “zzzs” (Paragraph 1) most probably means __________.

A．foodB．sleepC．energyD．blame
【小題2】What causes teenagers to be less sleepy late at night and more sleepy early in the morning?
A．Caffeinated drinks.
B．Too much family activities.
C．Circadian rhythms.
D．Too much homework.
【小題3】How many reason why teens need extra sleep are mentioned in Paragraph 4?
A．Three.B．Four.C．Five.D．Six.
【小題4】One of the reasons why many teenagers fail to have better performances in class is that __________.
A．teenagers go to bed early and sleep late
B．teenagers stay up late and get up late
C．teenagers participate in too many social activities at night
D．teenagers skip breakfast because of sleeping in
【小題5】The author wrote this article to __________.
A．a(chǎn)dvise parents to let sleeping teenagers lie
B．explain why teenagers often sleep late
C．state schools should start late in the day
D．warn teenagers not to drink coffee before bed

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1.                A．built           B．formed         C．repaired  D．damaged

 

2.                A．difficult         B．easy           C．foolish   D．shy

 

3.                A．long           B．often           C．much D．soon

 

4.                A．unusual        B．harmful         C．worthless D．unkind

 

5.                A．hardly          B．even           C．only D．such

 

6.                A．sense          B．brain           C．weight   D．feeling

 

7.                A．a(chǎn)pologized      B．explained       C．offered   D．expressed

 

8.                A．strange         B．fatal           C．various   D．dangerous

 

9.                A．sign           B．injury          C．cause    D．symptom

 

10.               A．Whenever      B．Unless         C．Suppose   D．Although

 

11.               A．neglected       B．a(chǎn)ccepted       C．seized D．wasted

 

12.               A．mad           B．lost            C．a(chǎn)broad    D．dead

 

13.               A．order          B．excuse         C．a(chǎn)greement D．a(chǎn)pology

 

14.               A．note           B．card           C．check D．photo

 

15.               A．should         B．did            C．had  D．was

 

 

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It’s nearly noon on a Saturday and you can’t believe it: your teenager is still in bed, sleeping away. But before you wake him up---mumbling to yourself that you can’t believe what a lazybones he is---you should know that he probably needs all the zzzs he can get.

As much as nine hours of sleep a night, in fact. Furthermore, teens’ circadian rhythms (i.e., processes that occur once a day) mean that young people would rather stay up past midnight and rise after 9 a.m. The result? Many teens stay up late, drag themselves out of bed early for school and try to make up the sleep debt on the weekends---or in class!

“There’s a biological reason why teens stay up late and want to sleep late,” says Dr. Stan Kutcher, the Sun Life Chair of Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “Their natural sleep-wake cycle changes as part of the maturation process. And because of changes in their social activities, recovering from sleep debt is more problematic.”

Teens need extra sleep for several reasons. First, their brains are changing. “The brain is reorganizing itself, laying down new pathways. What we’re seeing is a relationship between brain redevelopment and an increased need for sleep,” says Kutcher. As well, growth hormones are released during sleep, so adequate sleep is crucial for adolescents’ physical development. In addition, everything adolescents have learned in school that day is being processed and locked into long-term memory during sleep. Sufficient sleep also plays a key role in overall physical health. The immune system, for example, needs deep sleep to become and remain robust(healthy).

Staying up late on school nights means that, on average, teens get between six and a half and seven hours of sleep a night---about two hours less than they need. As a result, many either doze off in class or have trouble concentrating. Some of the behavioural problems and irritability in teens can be linked directly to sleep deprivation(損失), Kutcher says.

Then there’s the breakfast issue. Dr. Carlyle Smith, a sleep researcher and a psychology professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., adds that many teens simply cannot tolerate food when they first wake up, so skipping breakfast becomes another factor in reduced alertness in class. The most obvious solution to the teen sleep problem is to have school start later in the day, but initiatives(積極性) toward this across the country have gone nowhere, Smith says, mainly because of costs and resistance from school boards and teachers.

So for now, just sympathize with your teens. Encourage them to go to bed, if not early, then at least at a regular time, so they won’t develop insomnia from erratic(不穩(wěn)定的) schedules. Warn them not to have too many caffeinated drinks before bed. And don’t let sleeping away the weekend become an issue to fight over. Schedule family activities to take place later in the day on weekends and let them sleep in. “If you want your kids to grow and remember stuff, let them sleep,” says Smith. “It’s not laziness. Their brains are working really, really hard.”

1.The word “zzzs” (Paragraph 1) most probably means __________.

A．food             B．sleep             C．energy           D．blame

2.What causes teenagers to be less sleepy late at night and more sleepy early in the morning?

A．Caffeinated drinks.

B．Too much family activities.

C．Circadian rhythms.

D．Too much homework.

3.How many reason why teens need extra sleep are mentioned in Paragraph 4?

A．Three.            B．Four.             C．Five.             D．Six.

4.One of the reasons why many teenagers fail to have better performances in class is that __________.

A．teenagers go to bed early and sleep late

B．teenagers stay up late and get up late

C．teenagers participate in too many social activities at night

D．teenagers skip breakfast because of sleeping in

5.The author wrote this article to __________.

A．a(chǎn)dvise parents to let sleeping teenagers lie

B．explain why teenagers often sleep late

C．state schools should start late in the day

D．warn teenagers not to drink coffee before bed

 

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