Question

If you are a sleep deprived(被剝奪) teacher, you may not be aware of the term woodpeckering(啄木鳥式點(diǎn)頭), but you’ve probably done it. It happens the day following a bad night’s sleep. You’re sitting in a long meeting and you can barely keep your eyes open, so you support your head up with your hand. Next thing you know, you are moving your sleeping head back to its upright position. Do this a few times and you are woodpeckering.

I thought I knew sleep deprivation when I did my medical internship(實(shí)習(xí)) in hospital. That year I frequently went 36 hours with no sleep. When I finished my stay in neurology(神經(jīng)內(nèi)科), I welcomed the promise of full nights of sleep ever after. It went pretty well for the next 10 years until I became a school teacher and experienced a whole new level of sleep deprivation.

Teachers’ working hours go far beyond the 8 am to 5 pm schedule of kids in school. There are hours spent at staff meetings, correcting homework, preparing for the next day- and then there is the worrying. What I did in a hospital emergency room required no more intensive mental energy than what is need to keep 30 kids attentive enough to learn what I was teacher.

Good teachers are like magicians keeping a dozen balls in the air to come at right time, with alarm set for 6 am to finish grading papers, memories of the day that’s gone- including the students who didn’t understand something, forgot their lunch or were embarrassed by wrong answers. All these will become sleep-resistant barriers. And also with some financial stress, you’ll have a cycle of insomnia(失眠) with unwelcome consequences.

With inadequate sleep comes irritability(易怒), forgetfulness, lower tolerance of even minor annoyances, and less efficient organization and planning. These are the very mental useless that teachers need to meet the challenges of the next day. In wanting to do a better job the next day, the brain keeps bringing up the worries that deny the rest it needs.

1.After a bad night’s sleep, usually the direct effect for the next day is to ______.

A. keep one’s eyes open all the time

B. move head back and forth

C. raise one’s head in upright position

D. keep nodding like a woodpecker

2.The writer’s new level of sleep deprivation began since he _____.

A. did his medical internship in hospital

B. began to teach in a school

C. left hospital ten years ago

D. went 36 hours with no sleep

3.From paragraph 3 we can infer that ____.

A. teachers’ work is comfortable

B. correcting homework needs less time

C. working in hospital is even tougher

D. teaching needs more mental energy

4.Good teachers’ sleep problems are mainly due to the _____.

A. common sleep-resistant barriers

B. embarrassment for wrong answers

C. diligence and devotion to teaching

D. misunderstanding of their students

5.What does the writer really want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. Unfavorable effects of inadequate sleep are various

B. Lay down worries and sleep well first for the next day.

C. Teachers should often practice mental muscles.

D. Better job has nothing to do with inadequate sleep.

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.D

4.C.

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：是一篇科普文章。該文講述了老師們?yōu)槭裁唇?jīng)常有睡眠問(wèn)題或失眠，主要是老師們對(duì)教育的奉獻(xiàn)以及所要面臨的各種壓力，使得他們忽略了應(yīng)該需要的睡眠。

1.】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段可知，前天晚上沒(méi)有睡好，第二天會(huì)像啄木鳥一樣來(lái)回點(diǎn)頭打瞌睡。答案為D。

2.】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段內(nèi)容可知，作者在成為學(xué)校老師時(shí)，睡眠質(zhì)量開(kāi)始下降。答案為B。

3.】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段內(nèi)容可知，教學(xué)需要緊張的腦力。答案為D。

4.】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。理解第四段可知，都在描述造成教師睡眠差的障礙是對(duì)教學(xué)的勤奮和奉獻(xiàn)。答案為C。

5.】推理判斷題。理解文章最后一段可知，想要第二天工作效率高，我們應(yīng)該放下思想包袱，睡個(gè)好覺(jué)。選B。

考點(diǎn)：科普類文章