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

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。（请注意问题后的字数要求）

       In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity（繁荣）. Others say that competition is bad, that it sets one person against another; that it causes unfriendly relationship between people.

       I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

       However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among them are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse：“I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try,” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self—respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve（缓解）can we discover a new meaning in competition.

1．What is the best title of the passage?（Please answer within 10 words.）

2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

    On the one hand, some children have a strong desire for success, but on the other, others have no interest in it at all.

3．Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. （Please answer within 10 words.）

4．What should you do with competition after reading the passage？（Please answer within 30 words.）

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese

守时是一个的基本素质，请就“守时”这个话题，结合身边同学的实际情况谈一下守时的重要性。

注意：

1．词数要求：120—150

2．参考词汇：punctuality  守时

3．题目已给出。

As________ gesture of appreciation, she insisted on driving him home, ________ cottage in a little village nearby.

A. 不填; a            B. the; the             C. a; a                   D. the; a

It's just ________ among countries to host the Olympics as to win an Olympic Medal.

A. much as a competition                    B. as a much competition

C. as much a competition                    D. a competition as much

Wherever we go, we must ________ new circumstances as soon as possible_________.

A. concentrate on                           B. correspond with   

C. communicate with                        D. accommodate to

-- I missed Jackie's party last night because my Audi broke down.

-- Pity! You could have borrowed mine. I ________ it.

A. didn't use           B. hadn't used          C. wasn't using            D. won't use

The best method to ________ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.

A. undertake           B. conduct                  C. perform               D. accomplish

________ made the school proud was ________ more than 90% of the students had been admitted by universities.

A. What; because       B. That; because        C. That; what             D. What; that

Mike arrived at the meeting ________ at ten o'clock, as it was scheduled, not a minute early or late.

A. flexibly               B. punctually         C. approximately          D. temporarily