According to the survey conducted by some scientists, it is common to have difficulty sleeping during the day. Humans are naturally wired to sleep best at night and be awake during the day. However, modern work schedules require some people to try to accommodate the unnatural schedule of shift(轮班)work — being awake at night and sleeping during the day.
In order to make this adjustment, you need to pay special attention to your sleep environment and your preparation for sleep. If shift work is a necessary part of your work life, here are some suggestions that may help.
Arrange to sleep uninterrupted in a quiet, dark room. This means you may have to turn off or unplug your phone, hang darkening curtains on the windows or wear a sleep eye mask, and train your family and friends to leave you alone while you sleep.
Fit in a nap (小睡). When your daytime sleep period is too short, taking a short nap of less than 30 minutes just before work or on a break has been shown to improve alertness and enhance performance.
Develop and follow a sleep routine. It's best if you go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day. Try not to vary this too much on weekends. Your body likes routine.
Take extra care to make healthy choices. You may be tempted to reach for unhealthy foods or nicotine to stay awake or alcohol to try to sleep. But ultimately these choices are more harmful than helpful.
If you have tried all these things and are still having problems getting enough quality sleep during the day, talk to your doctor or a sleep specialist. Sometimes medications (药物治疗) may be helpful and safe. In other cases, there may be an underlying sleep disorder that needs to be addressed.
【小题1】The purpose of the text is to_____ .
A.persuade workers to have a good sleep |
B.advise night workers to keep healthy |
C.encourage workers to do day work |
D.help night workers to sleep well |
A.A suitable amount of alcohol to help sleep. |
B.A regular life on weekday’s and weekends. |
C.A bright room without phones to sleep in. |
D.A break for sleeping anytime during the day. |
A.If he suffers from a sleep disorder for the first time. |
B.If a good sleep environment is greatly needed for him. |
C.If he fails to get quality sleep through his own efforts. |
D.If he has the problem of falling asleep in the daytime. |
A.night workers need a long time to fall asleep |
B.constant breaks at work help to improve performance |
C.it is difficult to create a good sleep environment |
D.night work requires people to adjust their body clocks |
【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】D
解析试题分析:作者提供了一些夜班工人如何安排好自己睡眠的建议。
【小题1】主旨大意题。根据第二段的here are some suggestions that may help. 可知作者提供了一些夜班工人如何安排好自己睡眠的建议,选D
【小题2】细节题:根据文章的第五段的Try not to vary this too much on weekends. 可知作者建议在工作日和周末要生活有规律,此题答案。B
【小题3】细节题:根据文章最后一段的If you have tried all these things and are still having problems getting enough quality sleep during the day talk to your doctor or a sleep specialist. 可知如果他通过自己的努力还是睡不好,就要求助于睡眠专家,此题答案选C
【小题4】推理题:根据文章内容可知人的睡眠是有固定规律的,人们是白天工作而钟上睡觉,而对于晚上工作的人就需要调整自己的生物钟。选D
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
Imagine you are doing this reading in this text on the computer; what else are you doing? Maybe you’re eating a sandwich or drinking a cup of Starbucks. Should you eat while reading?
There aren’t many believable numbers, but we do know the number of people who eat while sitting in front of some type of screen is growing. A recent study found that 33 percent of families always have the TV on during meal times and another 27 percent people have it on at least half the time. Another 10 percent may be texting, emailing or talking on a cell phone while eating.
Any type of these behaviors is bad, considering the following evidence:
A Canadian study found that children who watch more than three hours of cartoons a day are 50 percent more likely to be fat than children who watch fewer than two hours. The researchers concluded that more than 60 percent of overweight incidents can be connected with screen watching too much.
A three-week study found that adults who usually play with smartphones less burned 119 more calories per day.
One Chicago researcher found that people eat more potato chips while reading online than when they have the laptop turned off.
There has been very little investigation(调查) into eating with your eyes staring at a screen or reading a book, but it is likely that his mindless eating is related to weight gain. Simply speaking, your brain has no idea what is going on with your mouth because it is occupied by other things. You don’t notice how full your stomach is, and you often don’t even notice the taste or the act of chewing and swallowing, as a result of which, developing an adapted dietary habit is a must.
【小题1】The author answers the question raised in the first paragraph with ________.
A.stories and explanations | B.examples and investigations |
C.an argument and evidence | D.facts and descriptions |
A.Being focused while eating is a good way to have a good figure. |
B.Adults’ weight is not affected by their eating habits. |
C.There exist many investigations into eating while reading. |
D.This text must be found on a website. |
A.How Should You Lose Weight? |
B.Should You Do Other Things While Eating? |
C.Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Habits |
D.TV and Eating |
A.Express healthy eating ways. |
B.Give more useful investigations into eating. |
C.Describe the study about the old who watch less TV while eating. |
D.Tell the proper ways to watch TV. |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
Why are people interested in eating raw foods or whole foods? One reason is that eating these types of food reduces the risk of acid accumulation in your body.
Raw and whole foods are usually digested more efficiently than cooked and refined foods. When we cook foods, we destroy the natural enzymes (酶) that are part of the food in its raw form. These enzymes were intended by nature to help us digest the food. When we consume food without these natural enzymes, our bodies either digest the food improperly or allow too many nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream. In both instances, the result is obesity(肥胖). When too many nutrients are absorbed at once, the body grows fat. Improperly digested food moves slowly through the digestive tract(消化道), where it becomes increasingly acidic. To protect its vital organs from this acidic waste, the body changes the acid into fat and stores it safely away from the organs.
Processed foods contain chemical elements, which might confuse the appetite mechanism that tells us when we’ve had enough to eat; as a result, people often overeat. Processed foods also upset the digestive cycle. The body will either identify these foods as allergens(过敏原) and then store them safely away from the organs as fat, or the remains of undigested food will become acidic and enter the bloodstream as acid waste, which will stick to the blood vessel walls and block the passage of vital oxygen and nutrients heading for the body’s cells. The body’s metabolism (新陈代谢) becomes inactive, and the result is weight gain and obesity.
The accumulation of acid in the digestive tract makes digestion increasingly inefficient. When that happens, even healthy foods can become acidic and the food allergies will become more common.
To stop this vicious circle in its tracks, people need to consume food and supplements that will neutralize(中和)the acid already accumulated in body. Eating the right types of raw and whole foods can help. It’s also important to restore your enzyme balance. You need to identify and avoid the foods that cause acid accumulation and consume the foods that increase enzyme production. If you truly want to change and help your body heal itself, you need to take an active approach.
【小题1】 It can be inferred from Para. 2 that __________.
A.foods with natural enzymes help people keep fit |
B.we’d better be cautious about raw and whole foods |
C.it is essential for people to protect their vital organs |
D.giving up cooked and refined foods is a new lifestyle |
A.destroy body’s cells | B.may lead to obesity |
C.are difficult to digest | D.stop body’s metabolism |
A.To warn people of the problem of obesity. |
B.To advocate eating more raw and whole foods. |
C.To inform people of the harm of processed foods. |
D.To tell the differences between raw and processed foods. |
A.Different causes of acid accumulation. |
B.Correct ways to cook raw foods. |
C.Suitable types of raw and whole foods. |
D.Active approaches to avoid acid. |
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Smaller than your fist, your healthy heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than 60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.
60 times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? No. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels(血管). It takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.
And, unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever complaining(抱怨)! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first indication(迹象)that their heart isn’t working properly is a serious heart illness! Over 650,000 Americans die of some kind of heart disease every year. Cancer kills 560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
Like accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me. ” So these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat. And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the fridge. Please follow the following steps to keep your heart healthy.
【小题1】The text is most probably taken from a (an) __________.
A.art book | B.science fiction |
C.healthy magazine | D.psychology book |
A.Blink. | B.Jump. | C.Finger tap. | D.Heart beat. |
A.Accidents can be the biggest “killer” in America every year. |
B.In America, heart disease causes the highest death rate annually. |
C.Cancer causes more threat than any other diseases for Americans. |
D.Recently, nobody died of stroke or heart disease in America. |
A.our healthy hearts work with many complains as our knees. |
B.our healthy hearts can pump 3,600 gallons of blood everyday. |
C.our healthy hearts are smaller than our fists. |
D.our healthy hearts can beat 60 times in one hour. |
A.Some tips for keeping a healthy heart. |
B.Some suggestions for avoiding accidental deaths. |
C.Some reasons for doing regular exercise. |
D.Some exercise for keeping a healthy lifestyle. |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
The World Health Organization (WHO) planned to study the relationship between the eating habits of the people and the disease. Two doctors were chosen to make the study. They flew to Africa south of the Sahara and during the next two months visited ten countries. They found that serious diseases of poor eating, often mistaken for other diseases, existed in all parts of Africa. The diseases were similar and could therefore all be named kwashiorkor. The diseased children are usually from one to four years old. As the illness progresses, the child’s stomach becomes swollen by liquid collecting in the body. The skin changes color and may break out in open sores(疼痛). The hair changes color and starts to fall out. The patient loses all interest in his surroundings and even in food, and becomes so weak that he wants to lie down all the time. Stomach liquids are no longer produced.
The doctors reasoned that kwashiorkor was found in the young children of this age in many parts of Africa because of lack of milk or meat. Their mothers, after stopping their breastfeeding, gave them foods full of starches(淀粉)instead of greatly needed proteins. They found that the addition of milk to the food of the children suffering from kwashiorkor saved many lives.
The unbelievable thing about kwashiorkor is that the very existence of the disease—which has been killing thousands of children for centuries—was not even recognized in Latin America as recently as ten years ago. The deaths of those children were mistakenly listed as due to other diseases. It was the WHO’s work in Africa that led to the discovery of the problem in Central America.
【小题1】From the passage we learn that kwashiorkor is a disease caused by __________ .
A.poor living conditions | B.lack of proteins in food |
C.breastfeeding | D.lack of food |
A.it has no symptoms at all |
B.it is hard to identify signs of it |
C.it doesn’t last long enough for careful observation |
D.it is hardly different from other diseases |
A.Taking a special medicine. |
B.Avoiding any food containing starch. |
C.Having more meat or milk. |
D.Taking medicine full of proteins. |
A.Milk and Meat Are Daily Necessities |
B.Kwashiorkor and Improper Eating Habits |
C.A New Form of Illness in Africa and Latin America |
D.A Case of Eating Habits |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
The economic growth that many nations in Asia and increasingly Africa have experienced over the past couple of decades has transformed hundreds of millions of lives – almost entirely for the better. But there’s a byproduct to that growth, one that’s evident – or sometimes less than evident – in the smoggy, smelly skies above cities like Beijing, New Delhi and Jakarta. Thanks to new cars and power plants, air pollution is bad and getting worse in much of the world, and it’s taking a major toll (伤亡人数,代价) on global health.
How big? According to a new analysis published in the Lancet, more than 3.2 million people suffered deaths from air pollution in 2010, the largest number on record. That’s up from 800,000 in 2000. And it’s a regional problem: 65% of those deaths occurred in Asia, where the air is choked by diesel soot (内燃发动机烟雾) from cars and trucks, as well as the song from power plants and the dust from endless urban construction. In East Asia and China, 1.2 million people died, as well as another 712,000 in South Asia, including India. For the first time ever, air pollution is on the world’s top – 10 list of killers, and it’s moving up the ranks faster than any other factor.
So how can air pollution be so damaging? It is the very finest soot – so small that it roots deep within the lungs and from the enters the bloodstream – that contributes to most of the public – health toll of air pollution including death. Diesel soot, which can also cause cancer, is a major problem because it is concentrated in cities along transportation zones affecting overpopulated areas. It is thought to contribute to half the deaths from air pollution in urban centers. Fro example, 1 in 6 people in the U.S. live near a diesel – pollution hot spot like a rail yard, port terminal or freeway.
We also know that air pollution may be linked to other non – deadly diseases. Fortunately in the U.S. and other developed nations, urban air is for the most part cleaner than it was 30 or 40 years ago, thanks to regulations and new technologies like the catalytic converters (催化式排气净化器) that reduce automobile emissions. Governments are also pushing to make air cleaner – see the White House’s move last week to further tighten soot standards. It’s not perfect, but we’ve had much more success dealing with air pollution than climate change.
Will developing nations like India eventually catch up? Hopefully – though the problem may get worse before it gets better. The good news is that it doesn’t take a major technological advance to improve urban air. Switching from diesel fuel to unleaded (无铅燃油) helps, as do newer and cleaner cars which are less likely to send out pollutants. Power plants – even ones that burn mineral fuels like coal – can be fitted with pollution – control equipment that, at a price, will greatly reduce smog and other pollutants.
But the best solutions may involve urban design. In the Guardian, John Vidal notes that Delhi now has 200 cars per 1,000 people, far more than much richer Asian cities like Hong Kong and Singapore. Developing cities will almost certainly see an increase in care ownership as residents become wealthier – and that doesn’t have to mean deadly air pollution. Higher incomes should also lead to tougher environmental regulations, witch is exactly what happened in the West. We can only hope it happens before the death toll from bad air gets even higher.
【小题1】What tends to give rise to the highest death toll according to the passage?
A.The lack of tight environmental protection standards. |
B.The increasing numbers of the diesel cars and trucks. |
C.The frighteningly high death rate from deadly cancer. |
D.The world’s serious air pollution such as soot and dust. |
A.consequence | B.solution | C.reform | D.design |
A.the diesel soot is too small to be seen |
B.the diesel soot is much too poisonous to breathe |
C.the diesel soot roots in lungs and gets into blood |
D.the diesel soot can also contribute to deadly cancer |
A.the global economic growth is mainly to blame for air pollution and climate change |
B.the developing countries are repeating the same mistakes as the developed ones made |
C.the ecological situation and air pollution in India are becoming worse and worse |
D.the unbeatable air is increasingly becoming a major killer throughout the world |
A.the making of tougher environmental regulations alone is of little use |
B.more sever regulations should be made to handle air pollution |
C.the urban construction in western developed countries is the best choice |
D.the pace of development has to be slowed down to reduce air pollution |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
Why are people interested in eating raw foods or whole foods (天然健康食品) ? One reason is that eating these types of food reduces the risk of acid (酸) accumulation in your body.
Raw and whole foods are usually digested more efficiently than cooked foods. When we cook foods, we destroy the natural enzymes (酶) that are part of the food in its raw form. These enzymes were intended by nature to help us digest the food. When we consume food without these natural enzymes, our bodies either digest the food improperly or allow too many nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream. In both instances, the result is overweight. When too many nutrients are absorbed at once, the body grows fat. Improperly digested food moves slowly through the digestive system, where it becomes increasingly acidic. To protect its vital organs from this acidic waste, the body changes the acid into fat and stores it safely away from the organs.
Processed foods (加工食品) contain chemical elements, which might confuse the appetite mechanism that tells us when we’ve had enough to eat; as a result, people often overeat. Processed foods also upset the digestive cycle. The body will either identify these foods as allergens and then store them safely away from the organs as fat, or the remains of undigested food will become acidic and enter the bloodstream as acid waste, which will stick to the blood vessel walls and block the passage of vital oxygen and nutrients heading for the body’s cells. The body’s metabolism (新陈代谢) becomes inactive, and the result is weight gain and obesity.
The accumulation of acid in the digestive system makes digestion increasingly inefficient. When that happens, even healthy foods can become acidic and the food allergies will become more common.
To stop this vicious circle in its tracks, people need to consume food and supplements that will neutralize the acid already accumulated in body. Eating the right types of raw and whole foods can help. It’s also important to restore your enzyme balance. You need to identify and avoid the foods that cause acid accumulation and consume the foods that increase enzyme production. If you truly want to change and help your body heal itself, you need to take an active approach. One effective way is to choose raw and whole foods appropriately according to your health conditions and personal preferences.
【小题1】It can be inferred from Para. 2 that __________.
A.we’d better be cautious about raw and whole foods |
B.foods with natural enzymes help people keep fit |
C.it is important for people to protect their vital organs |
D.giving up cooked and refined foods is a new lifestyle |
A.destroy body’s cells | B.harm your stomach |
C.may lead to obesity | D.stop body’s natural function |
A.To warn people of the problem of overweight. |
B.To inform people of the harm of processed foods. |
C.To advocate eating more raw and whole foods. |
D.To tell the differences between raw and processed foods. |
A.Different causes of acid accumulation. |
B.Correct ways to cook raw foods. |
C.Active approaches to avoid acid. |
D.Suitable types of raw and whole foods. |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) through a wind and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is "blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls too.
【小题1】Stuntmen are those who ______.
A.often dress up as actors |
B.prefer to lead dangerous lives |
C.often perform seemingly dangerous actions |
D.often fight each other for their lives |
A.playing their dirty tricks |
B.selling their special skills |
C.jumping out of high windows |
D.jumping from fast moving trains |
A.Strength. | B.Exactness. |
C.Speed. | D.Carefulness. |
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