Recently Dr. Cleiman has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when you labor (work) through your work, you may say that you are “hot”. That is true, the time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak (顶峰). For some people the peak comes during the forenoon (上午前). For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what this energy cycle means and which cycle each member of the family has. You cannot change your cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. “Habits can help,” Dr. Cleiman believes. If your energy cycle is low in the morning but you have an important job early in the day, rise before your usual hour, and then you will work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a lazy yawn(哈欠) and stretch(伸展). Sit on the edge of bed before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome searching for clean clothes by laying them out the night before.
1.
Dr. Cleiman did not explain in the passage ___________.
A.
how people can make their life fit their cycle
B.
whether everyone has a daily cycle or not
C.
why people have their energy cycle at different times
D.
what will happen in the family if the couple fail to realize which cycle each member has
2.
For what reason may husbands and wives quarrel with each other?
A.
Either of them gets up late in the morning.
B.
Husbands and wives have different cycles of energy.
C.
Either of them wants to change the cycle of the other’s.
D.
They do not know which cycle they themselves have.
3.
According to the passage, ____________.
A.
one works better at one’s peak energy point
B.
if you know your cycle you can change it to fit your life.
C.
whenever you feel hot, your energy cycle reaches the highest
D.
your energy cycle must be in the morning if you can get up early
4.
Which of the following can save your energy in the morning?
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago，we've both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other. Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other selfdestructive（自我毁灭的） behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her selfrespect seemed to have disappeared. I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang out with a group of losers, especially her boyfriend. By the time she left，I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating，I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't. I put the power of friendship to the final test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything. A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend
1.
In the writer's opinion，her friend ________
A.
was a girl with no selfrespect
B.
could find a better boyfriend
C.
was brave enough to stick to her own choice
D.
didn't value the writer's suggestion
2.
What did the writer worry about?
A.
She would lose the friendship with her
B.
Her friend's parents would be worried about their daughter
C.
Her friend would get into great trouble with the boy
D.
Her friend's boyfriend would be in great trouble
3.
We may learn from Paragraph 3 that the writer________
A.
didn't want to go anywhere else
B.
understood her friend's hanging with her boyfriend
C.
couldn't believe that her friend's choice was acceptable
D.
doubted that she could in any way help her friend
4.
What can be concluded from the passage?
A.
Friendship starting from childhood is not reliable
