Few of us make money by losing sleep．But three graduate students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation （睡眠不足）．
Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Brown's business and engineering schools．They began thinking about ways to sleep better．They discovered they weren't alone in burning the midnight oil．Around 20% of Americans get less than six hours of rest a night．
The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time people spend in the most restorative （有回复作用的） stages of the sleep cycle: REM （rapid eye movement） and deep sleep．What would it cost to design such a thing? Five years of research, 20 employees, $14 million and a whole lot of doubting from investors and scientists．
Their company, Zeo, based in Newton, Mass, launched its product in June, 2009．The Zeo device uses a headband with tiny sensors （传感器） that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states- REM, light, deep and waking sleep．The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you as you're not in REM sleep （which is when you're least groggy）．In the morning you can upload the data to the company's Web site, and so track your sleep over time．Most of the feedback comes in the form of Zeo's ZQ score showing how well you've slept．
"Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep," says Dave Dickinson, a health-care CEO．
Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer, who will also need to make lifestyle changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 pm．
For now the company is selling Zeo online only．Dickinson also plans to spread it to countries such as Australia, where sleep deprivation approaches US levels．
【小题1】Who will support Zeo?

A．People full of imagination．	B．People suffering sleeping problems．
C．People having access to the Internet．	D．People having bad lifestyles．

【小题2】Why did the three graduate students imagine a smart alarm clock?

A．To wake them up on time in the morning．

B．To earn enough money for their study．

C．To improve the quality of people's sleep．

D．To enjoy their life while working at night．

【小题3】To design the Zeo device, the three graduate students ____．

A．spent much time and money	B．were widely supported by scientists
C．worked by themselves all the time	D．attracted many investors

【小题4】What can we know from the passage?

A．Zeo has a direct effect on users' lifestyles．

B．It needs more personal efforts to make Zeo function better．

C．A large quantity of Zeo devices have been sold in Australia．

D．Consumers can go to the Zeo company to purchase Zeo in person．

If you look for a book as a present for a child，you will be spoiled for choice even in a year there is no new Harry Patten．J．K Rowling’s wizard is not alone ．The past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books ,which has set off a large quantity of films and an increased sales of classics such as The lard of the Rings．

Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children ．According to statistics in 1997, 23% said they didn’t like reading at all．In 2003, 35% didn’t．And around 6% of the children leave primary school each year unable to read properly．

Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computes games．Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile．Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class ．In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most．

Reading Recovery is aimed at six year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher．An evaluation this year reported that children on the school made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress ,and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age．

International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school, they read well ,but read text often for fun than those elsewhere ．Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success ．According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage．

51．Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?

A．Many children’s books have been adapted from films．

B．Many high-quality children’s books have been published．

C．The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films．

D．The sales of presents for children have increased．

52．Statistics suggested that ．

A．the number of top students increased with the use of computers

B．a decreasing number of  children showed interest in reading

C．a minority of primary school children read properly

D．a huge percentage of children read regularly

53．What do we know about Reading Recovery?

A．An evaluation of it will be made sometime this year．

B．Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking．

C．It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading．

D．Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading．

54．Reading for fun is important because book-loving children _________．

A．take greater advantage of the project

B．show the potential to enjoy a long life

C．are likely to succeed in their education．

D．would make excellent future researchers

55．The aim of this text would probably be _________．

A．to overcome primary school pupils reading difficulty．

B．to encourage the publication of more children’s books

C．to remind children of the importance of reading for fun

D．to introduce a way to improve early children reading

Every year _____ money and energy is spent on environment protection.

    A. large quantities of      B. a large number of    C. a large quantity of   D. a plenty of

B

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1.What are these ads for?

A．Food you can order for delivery.            B．Places to go on vacation.

C．Things on sale in a big store.               D．Special offers at a shopping center.

2.Which of the following is true according to the ads?

A．Spending $50 means 3 hours of free parking.

B．One person can buy 5 tickets for the price of three.

C．At Mike’s Café, people can get a free drink after spending $6.

D．After buying two CDs, you can get another two CDs for free.

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A．you won’t get a free soft drink unless you spend more than 10 dollars on the meal.

B．if you buy a book there, you may pay less than half the price.

C．you may get a free one if you buy a shirt, or a tie, or a pair of shoes.

D．there is more than one theater in the center.

 

He gained ___ wealth by printing ___ works of famous writers.

A．quite a few; quite a little	B．a great deal of ;a large quantity of
C．a lots of; a large number of	D．a plenty of ; a good amount of