1．Establish a regular bedtime and rising time, and stick to them.

       A regular bedtime and rising time can help you stabilize your internal clocks. Select a bedtime that’s good and natural for you. Don’t change your bedtime and rising time on weekends. Reprogramming your sleep rhythms for two days doesn’t do much to help you remove sleep debt, and it throws off your sleepwake  cycles just in time for a bad case of Sunday-night insomnia（失眠）.

2．Avoid physical and mental stimulation（兴奋）just before sleep.

       Physical effort too close to bedtime energizes your body’s systems by stimulating the release of adrenaline（肾上腺素）. Mental stimulation includes any activity that taxes your mind or gets your thoughts racing, such as watching an action-packed TV show. Similarly, planning tomorrow’s schedule, or reading a chapter from a murder mystery novel before turning out the light does not give you adequate time to escape from mental activity before trying to sleep.

3．Determine how many hours you should be sleeping.

       To determine your ideal length of sleep, factor in these considerations：（1）how many hours you slept on average as a child,（2）how many hours you slept each night on average before your insomnia began,（3）how many hours’ sleep you require to awake naturally without an alarm set, and（4）how many hours you must sleep so as not to experience daytime sleepiness.

4．Don’t go to bed too early.

       Since your body normally lets you sleep only the number of hours it needs, if you’re going to bed too early, you will likely awake too early as well.

5．Avoid naps

       Four out of five people with insomnia sleep better at night without naps. If you’re a committed napper, you can skip all naps for a week. If you feel better and sleep better, then drop them.

6．Take a warm bath within two hours of bedtime.

       A twenty-minute warm , soaking bath at a temperature of about 100—102 F not only is a great relaxer at day’ s end, but also raises your inner body temperature by several degrees. The ensuring drop in body temperature will naturally cause tiredness and sleep.

1．Which of the following will be helpful for a sound sleep?

       A．Tiredness                                                   B．Higher inner body temperature.

       C．Hot water.                                                  D．Lower room temperature.

2．What does the underlined word “them” refer to?

       A．People.                   B．Insominas.              C．Naps.                            D．Nappers.

3．If you want to have a good rest and enjoy an energetic travel the next day, what shouldn’t you do the night before?

       A．Watch TV.                                                        B．Take a warm bath   

       C．Plan the next day’s travel                             D．Go to bed at usual time

4．We may learn from the passage that       .

       A．most people have sleep difficulty

       B．many people prefer to sleep less at the weekends

       C．some people lack sleep during the weekends

       D．one needn’t keep the same bedtime the whole week

5．The writer mainly aims to tell us       in this passage .

       A．the difference between good sleep and bad sleep

       B．some ways of having a good sleep

       C．ways to get rid of bad sleeping habits

       D．how to arrange your night time

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　To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your students; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

　Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit motionless before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express his feeling. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

　The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher's word and the actor's. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart, he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

　A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience, which is his class. He can't learn his part in a stage-play, because their brains couldn't keep discipline; they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

(1) What is the text about?　　　

[　　]

A．How to become a good teacher

B．What a good teacher should do outside the classroom

C．What teachers and actors could learn from each other

D．The similarities and differences between a teacher's work and an actor's

(2) The word "gift" in the text means ______.　　　

[　　]

A．presents

B．something belonging to a good actor

C．talents

D．the way a teacher should act in class

(3) A good teacher ______.　　　

[　　]

A．knows how to hold the interest of his students

B．must have a good voice

C．knows how to act on the stage

D．stands or sits motionless while teaching

(4) In what way is a teacher's work different from an actor's? ______.

[　　]

A．The teacher must learn everything by heart

B．He knows how to control his voice better than an actor

C．He has to deal with unexpected situations

D．He has to use more facial expressions

(5) The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ______.

[　　]

A．students can move around in the classroom

B．students must keep silent while theatre audience needn't

C．no memory work is needed for the students

D．the students must take part in their teachers' plays

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class:he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play：they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.

What is the text about?

A．How to become a good teacher.

B．What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C．What teachers and actors could learn from each other?

D．The similarities (相似处) and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

2.

The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____.

A．students	B．people who watch a play
C．people who not on the stage	D．people who listen to something

3.

A good teacher ____.

A．knows how to hold the interest of his students	B．must have a good voice
C．knows how to act on the stage	D．stands or sits still while teaching

4.

In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?

A．The teacher must learn everything by heart.

B．He knows how to control his voice better than an actor.

C．He has to deal with unexpected situations.

D．He has to use more facial expressions.

5.

The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A．students can move around in the classroom

B．students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C．no memory work is needed for the students

D．the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

 

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class:he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play：they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
【小题1】
What is the text about?

A．How to become a good teacher.

B．What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C．What teachers and actors could learn from each other?

D．The similarities (相似处) and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

【小题2】
The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____.

A．students	B．people who watch a play
C．people who not on the stage	D．people who listen to something

【小题3】
A good teacher ____.

A．knows how to hold the interest of his students	B．must have a good voice
C．knows how to act on the stage	D．stands or sits still while teaching

【小题4】
In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?

A．The teacher must learn everything by heart.

B．He knows how to control his voice better than an actor.

C．He has to deal with unexpected situations.

D．He has to use more facial expressions.

【小题5】
The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A．students can move around in the classroom

B．students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C．no memory work is needed for the students

D．the students must take part in their teachers’ plays