Question

【題目】 With around 100 students scheduled to be in that 9:00 am Monday morning lecture, it is no surprise that almost 20 people actually make it to the class and only 10 of them are still awake after the first 15 minutes; it is not even a surprise that most of them are still in their pajama’s(睡衣). Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.

All human beings possess a body clock. Along with other alerting systems, this governs the sleep/wake cycle and is therefore one of the main processes which govern sleep behaviour. Typically, the preferred sleep/wake cycle is delayed in adolescents, which leads to many students not feeling sleepy until much later in the evenings. This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the “night owl” schedule of sleep.

This is opposed to the “early bird” schedule, and is a kind of disorder where the individual tends to stay up much past midnight. Such a person has great difficulty in waking up in the mornings. Research suggests that night owls feel most alert and function best in the evenings and at night. Research findings have shown that about 20 percent of people can be classified as “night owls” and only 10 percent can be classified as “early birds” ------ the other 70 percent are in the middle. Although this is clearly not true for all students, for the ones who are true night owls, this gives them an excellent excuse for missing their lectures which unfortunately fall before midday.

【1】What does the author stress in Paragraph 1?

A.Many students are absent from class.

B.Students are very tired on Monday mornings.

C.Students do not adjust their sleep patterns well.

D.Students are not well prepared for class on Mondays.

【2】Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?

A.Most students prefer to get up late in the morning.

B.Students don’t sleep well because of alerting systems.

C.One’s body clock governs the sleep/wake cycle independently.

D.Adolescents’ delayed sleep/wake cycle isn’t the preferred pattern.

【3】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “classified”?

A.CriticizedB.GroupedC.OrganizedD.Named

【4】What does the text mainly talk about?

A.Functions of the body clock.

B.The “night owl” phenomenon.

C.Human beings’ sleep behaviour.

D.The school schedule of “early birds”.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【4】B

【解析】

本文是說明文。在文中作者通過介紹周一早上上課中學(xué)生遲到和準(zhǔn)時(shí)到的情況，提出了學(xué)生不擅長調(diào)整自己的生物鐘而去適應(yīng)白天的學(xué)業(yè)安排。然后在文中分析了目前青少年睡眠存在的問題，提出了兩種不同的睡眠模式，即“early bird”（早起型） 和“night owl”（夜貓子型），并主要介紹了晚上不困，白天困的“night owl”現(xiàn)象。

【1】推理判斷題。在文章首段作者首先通過數(shù)字說明許多學(xué)生早晨不能準(zhǔn)時(shí)起床的一種情況，然后用一句話Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.來解釋這種現(xiàn)象的原因，提出文章中心，然后圍繞此中心展開行文，故答案選C。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段Typically , the preferred sleep / wake cycle is delayed in adolescents …可知學(xué)生們對他們自己的睡眠模式不熟悉，沒有能夠恰當(dāng)?shù)厝フ{(diào)整適應(yīng)自己的生物鐘，因而造成了睡眠問題，故答案選D。

【3】詞義猜測題。A批評；B分類；C 組織；D命名。根據(jù)上文第三段末句This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the "night owl" schedule of和第四段首句This is opposed to the "early bird" schedule,可知睡眠模式有兩種，即"night owl"和"early bird"，而此處把20%歸到night owls類，由此判斷該詞意思為“分類”，選B。

【4】主旨大意題。本文以學(xué)生星期一早上上課時(shí)很多學(xué)生難以將他們的睡眠周期調(diào)整到正常為引子，解釋了“night owl”這一睡眠周期現(xiàn)象現(xiàn)象進(jìn)行分析并介紹造成這種情況的原因，所以答案選B。A選項(xiàng)內(nèi)容“人體生物鐘的功能”，C選項(xiàng)“人體的睡眠行為”都比較片面，不能反映文章中心；而D選項(xiàng)“早起者的學(xué)校時(shí)間安排”在文中沒有涉及。