8．You're lost in the world of dreams and sleep．You roll over，smiling as you come across a swimming pool filled with chocolate．And then，your wonderful dream becomes a nightmare when someone is screaming，"Get up!"It's just what every teenager goes through each morning!
Now，there seems to be one school that finally understands that requiring teens to show up at 9am is not just cruel but also harmful to both the kids and the school．
The Monkseaton High School in North Tyneside，Britain，recently decided to experiment to see if there is any difference in student behavior if they just pushed back the start of their day by one hour，from 9am to 10am．And the results are surprising．
Since carrying out the later start，Monkseaton has seen a 28% drop in  truancy，even hardly any lateness，and best of all，higher test scores．One of the reasons is that the teenagers are much happier to have the extra hour of sleep，but there is also a scientific reason behind why they need the extra sleep．
The school's decision to push back the time was based on the research done by Oxford Professor Russell Foster，who pointed out that teenagers and adults have different sleep cycles，explaining why teenagers go to bed late and wake up late．
While adults are wide awake and ready at 8am，teenagers are not fully awake until 10am，sometimes even noon．Teachers may argue that their students perform better in the morning，but in fact，it is because they are in the zone while their students are still sleepy，making the students easier to control．Memory tests prove that the more difficult classes should be in the afternoon when teenagers are most wide awake．
The Monkseaton school officials are encouraged by the results and plan on voting to make it a permanent change．

67．What's the best title of this passage？B
A．Get up early，teenagers!
B．Finally，a school understands teenagers．
C．Why do teenagers stay up late？
D．Difference between teens and adults．
68．What's the meaning of the underlined word"truancy"？C
A．grades         B．subjects
C．a(chǎn)bsence        D．classes
69．What can we learn from the passage？D
A．Teenagers and adults have the same sleep cycle．
B．Teenagers are fully awake at 10am．
C．Teenagers are much happier to sleep than study．
D．Teenagers need the extra sleep also for a scientific reason．
70．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage？D
A．The Monkseaton school is satisfied with the result of experiments．
B．It is cruel for the teenagers to show up at 9am．
C．The Monkseaton school plans to change the school time forever．
D．Teenagers perform better in the morning than in the afternoon．

分析 本文介紹英國(guó)一所學(xué)校大膽推遲早上學(xué)生的到校時(shí)間，結(jié)果學(xué)生遲到、曠課現(xiàn)象減少，成績(jī)明顯提高．學(xué)校準(zhǔn)備投票決定是否永久將這項(xiàng)舉措保持下去．

解答 67．B．主旨概括題．通讀全文，可知本文講了一所學(xué)校根據(jù)青少年的睡眠研究改變學(xué)生上學(xué)時(shí)間的事．故選B．
68．C．詞義猜測(cè)題．根據(jù)第四段Monkseaton has seen a 28% drop in  truancy，even hardly any lateness可知，自實(shí)行了這項(xiàng)措施后，在truancy方面下降了28%，甚至幾乎沒(méi)有人遲到．這里講的是實(shí)行這項(xiàng)措施的好處，故選C．
69．D．推理判斷題．依據(jù)第五段The school's decision to push back the time was based on the research done by Oxford Professor Russell Foster可知學(xué)校推遲學(xué)生到校時(shí)間是有科學(xué)依據(jù)的，學(xué)生在早上需要更多的睡眠時(shí)間；故選D．
70．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．依據(jù)第六段Memory tests prove that the more difficult classes should be in the afternoon when teenagers are most wide awake推斷學(xué)生下午狀態(tài)更佳．學(xué)生在上午更易管理（貌似專(zhuān)心聽(tīng)講），是因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)诖藭r(shí)還沒(méi)有完全清醒；故選D．

點(diǎn)評(píng) 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進(jìn)行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí)，要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．

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C．A plough           D．The lightning itself
57．Which of the following is NOT true？C
A．Edwards had been deaf and blind for nearly ten years
B．Edwards lost all his senses for about 20minutes after the lightning had struck him down
C．Doctor held the belief that Edwards was never really blind and deaf．
D．Edwards woke up with face in mud．
58．What was Edwards doing when he was struck by the lightning？A
A．Hiding from the rain under a tree．
B．Driving a car．
C．Taking a walk                   
D．lying on the ground
59．How did Edwards get his sight and hearing once more according to the doctor？D
A．He regained them from head injury when he fell from a tree．
B．His wife's first visit after almost ten years made him so happy that he regained them．
C．The lightning took the feeling from his legs and gave the senses of sight and hearing to his head．
D．The blow that caused him blind and deaf was very severe，so it took another severe blow to regain them．

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18．假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改所造英語(yǔ)句子，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫(xiě)的以下 句子．每句中只有一處錯(cuò)誤．每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改．
增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞．
刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉．
修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞．
81．A man landed on Mars？You can be joking．That must not be true．must改為can
82．He is lost in thought，stared at the starless night sky．stared改為staring
83．Who will go make no difference．make改為makes
84．The fact which women can work as well as men is clear．which改為that
85．The fish tastes well．Why not have a try？well改為good．

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