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    　　What happens when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time?To answer this question, a New Yorker, Peter Tripp, offered to stay awake 200 hours．During that time Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his progress．

    　　After three days of staying awake, he began to show signs of his mental breakdown．He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept(哭泣)at things that were not sad．Complaining of pressure caused by a hat on his head, he tried repeatedly to take it off．Tripp, of course, was not wearing a hat．

    　　On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor's jacket looked like crawling worms．Then he imagined he was in another city; he tried to run away from the building, insisting it was on fire; and he thought the 200-hour mark had been passed but that the doctors were still trying to keep the experiment going．After 200 hours without sleep, Tripp, said the doctors, was“suffering from mental illness．”He was nearly mad．

    　　Hardly able to stand, Tripp was helped across the street to a room in a hotel．There, after being awake for 201 hours and thirteen minutes, he fell asleep．The doctors predicted(预言)he would sleep for twenty or thirty hours．“Peter Tripp will sleep the deepest sleep in history”, said the doctors．Tripp slept all right-for nine hours and eleven minutes．When he awoke, his first words were：“I feel fine．”After a medical check, his greatly surprised watchers said that he was sound and well．

    (1)

    The best title for this passage is ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    Sleeplessness

    B．

    Danger to Health

    C．

    Test of Strength to Health of Body and Mind

    D．

    A Man Who Didn't Sleep for Over 200 Hours

    (2)

    What is the main idea of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    There is little danger when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time．

    B．

    Going without sleep for a long period will cause bad effects．

    C．

    After 200 hours without sleep Tripp was suffering from“mental illness”．

    D．

    The doctors predicted Tripp would sleep for twenty or thirty hours．

    (3)

    Tripp started to show signs of his mental breakdown ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    when his third day of staying awake came to an end

    B．

    when he was not allowed to sleep for 5 days

    C．

    at the end of the experiment

    D．

    after 201 hours and 13 minutes without sleep

    (4)

    The doctors were greatly surprised because Tripp ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    could not fall asleep

    B．

    slept the deepest in history

    C．

    slept for thirty hours

    D．

    slept for a relatively short time

    (5)

    From the passage we can draw the conclusion that long periods of sleeplessness ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    may produce lasting harm to the brain

    B．

    may produce a loss of cheerfulness forever

    C．

    may not produce lasting damage

    D．

    may produce some serious after-effects

    答案：1．C;2．B;3．A;4．D;5．C;
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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

    [　　]

    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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