英语小练习（五）（学生版）.doc

英语小练习（五）
一、完型填空
Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die __1__ , according to the latest study ever conducted on the subject. The __2__ , which tracked the sleeping habits of 1.l million Americans for six years __3__ the advice of many sleep doctors who have long __4__ that people get eight or nine hours of sleep every night.
“There’s a(n) __5__ idea that people get eight hours a night, which has __6__ scientific basis than the gold __7__ of the rainbow,” said Daniel Kripke, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego who led the study, published in a recent __8__of the Archives (档案) of General Psychiatry. “ That’s an old wives’ tale.”
The study was not __9__ to answer why sleeping longer may be __10__ or whether people could extend their life span by sleeping less __11__.
But Kripke said it was possible that people who slept longer __12__ to suffer from short—term absence of sleeping, a condition where weaken breathing puts stress on the heart and __13__. He also speculated (推测) that the need for sleep was similar to __14__ , where getting less than people want may be __15__ for them.
The study quickly caused warnings and criticism , with some __16__ experts saying that the main problem in America’s sleeping habits was deprivation (剥夺), not sleeping too __17__.
“None of this says sleep __18__ people,” said Daniel Buysse, a university professor of Pittsburgh psychiatrist.
“You should sleep as much as you need to feel __19__ , alert and attentive the next day.” Buysse added, “I’m more ___20 __ about people short----changing themselves on sleep than people sleeping too long.”
Sleeplessness produces a variety of health results that were not measured in the study, critics said.
( )1. A. younger B. later C. stronger D. older
( )2. A. program B. study C. work D. report
( )3. A. suppose B. determines C. strengthens D. weakens
( )4. A. expected B. wished C. suggested D. demanded
( )5. A. new B. old C. ideal D. crazy
( )6. A. any more B. much more C. no more D. even more
( )7. A. at the end B. in the end C. at the beginning D. in the middle
( )8. A. copy B. dictionary C. book D. text
( )9. A. written B. done C. used D. designed
( )10. A. helpful B. healthier C. harmful D. good
( )11. A. longer B. less C. much D. happily
( )12. A. were sure B. tended C. were going D. were read
( )13. A. brain B. stomach C. back D. lungs
( )14. A. vegetable B. water C. food D. fruit
( )15. A. bad B. worse C. good D. better
( )16. A heart B. brain C. nerve D. sleep
( )17. A. much B. little C. nervously D. short
( )18. A. saves B. kills C. builds D. rests
( )19. A. sleepy B. awake C. tired D. amused
( )20. A. worried B. excited C. encouraged D. concerned
二、阅读理解

英语阅读训练（001）
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 window 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 of 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 tool

（ ）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
（ ）2. Stuntmen earn their living by ______.
A. playing their dirty tricks
B. selling their special skills
C.jumping out of high windows
D. jumping from fast moving trains
（ ）3. When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______.
A.he needs little protection
B. he will be covered with a mattress
C.his life is endangered
D. his safety is generally all right
（ ）4. Which of the following is the main factor (因素) of a successful performance?
A. Strength. B. Exactness. C. Speed. D. Carefulness.
（ ）5. What can be inferred from the author' s example of the Norwegian stuntman?
A.Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.
B.The percentage of serious accidents is high.
C.Parachutes must be of good quality.
D. The cliff is too high.

英语阅读训练（002）
Activity which was almost unknown to the learned in the early days of the history, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become popular.
One should be careful, however, of supposing that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is distraction (分散注意力) to others. Examination of reasons connected with the historical development of silent reading shows that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a gradual increase in literacy (读写能力) and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of listeners dropped, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the popularity of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, trains and offices, where reading aloud would disturb other readers in a way.
Towards the end of the century there was still heated argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its advantages, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media (媒介) on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the other.
By the end of the century students were being advised to have some new ideas of books and to use skills in reading them which were not proper, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological developments in the century had greatly changed what the term "reading" referred to.

（ ）1. Why was reading aloud common before the nineteenth century?
A. Because silent reading had not been discovered.
B. Because there were few places for private reading.
C. Because few people could read for themselves.
D. Because people depended on reading for enjoyment.
（ ）2. The development of silent reading during the nineteenth century showed .
A. a change in the position of literate people
B. a change in the nature of reading
C. an increase in the number of books
D. an increase in the average age of readers
（ ）3. Educationalists are still arguing about _________.
A. the importance of silent reading
B. the amount of information provided by books and newspapers
C. the effects of reading on health
D. the value of different types of reading material
（ ）4. What is the writer of this passage attempting to do?
A. To explain how present day reading habits developed.
B. To change people's way to read.
C. To show how reading methods have improved.
D. To encourage the growth of reading.

三、任务型阅读
注意: 每空格1个单词,不得用文章中的单词.(原创)
My name is Lin Lei and I will be representing the ‘con’ side of the debate. In my opinion, the internet has negative effects on our lives. The main drawbacks of the Internet I will address today are uncontrolled information and the change in the way people spend their time.
Of course, access to up-to-date, accurate information is and important thing for anyone who is involved in research. One of the greatest advantages of the internet is that it provides this information. The disadvantage, though, is that it is difficult to judge whether the information is true and accurate. The amount of false information on the Internet becomes more of a problem every day. This is very troublesome because people can write anything they want, and we cannot always tell if the information is true or not. In 2003, eBay, the famous website where people buy and sell things, said that 70 percent of their problems were with people who sold things that did not exist, or who lied about the products they were selling. University professors around the world complain that students are handing in papers using false information they found on the Internet. These problems of inaccuracy do not occur as often when people use traditional ways to find information, such as looking in books, newspapers and magazines.
Another drawbacks of the Internet is that it is affecting people’s private lives. As the Internet has gained popularity, there has been a change in the way people spend their time. Now, instead of spending time together in the evenings , some families spend their time apart because one or more members are using the computer, or are at an Internet café. In fact, some young people spend so much time playing computer games and using the Internet that they have become addicted to computer games. To help solve this problem, a clinic to deal with Internet addiction was opened in Beijing in 2005.
Some experts say that spending too much time building Internet relationships can damage people’s abilities to live normal lives. One university did a study about the students who had stopped their studies before completing a diploma course, and found that 43percent of them were heavy computer users. This study clearly shows that people who spend all their time on the Internet can feel disconnected from the people and the world round them.
These are all negative effects the Internet has on our lives, and I feel it remains important for us either to limit our use of the Internet or to learn how to deal with the problems it has caused.

The _______(1)_______ of the Internet
problems
We may__(3)____ uncontrolled information, because any people can write anything they want, and we can’t always tell whether the information is true or not.
The Internet has a __(5)__ effect on people’s personal lives.
Spending too much time building Internet relationships can damage people’s abilities to lead a normal life.
examples
Students __(4)_____ false information from the Internet they found on the Internet.
1. Many people spend too much time__(6)___and playing games on the Internet instead of staying with family members .
2. Young people can’t ____(7)__their addiction to the computer games.
People who spend all their time on the Internet will get __(9)__ from the people and the world round them.
_(2)_
He prefers to find information through traditional ways such as books, newspapers and so on.
A clinic to _(8)___ internet addiction was established in Beijing in 2005.
(10)___ to the drawbacks, it is necessary to limit the use of the Internet and approach the problems it has caused.