If I _____ you, I _____ late for school this morning.

A．were, wouldn’t be B．were, wouldn’t    C．was, won’t be     D．am, will

    One day it was time for lunch, and I was eating my sandwich that I prepared myself. Vera, the secretary(秘书) of our company, asked me absent-mindedly(心不在焉地),”Brown bagging today?” For a while, I was at a loss to find a word to respond(回答) to what she had said. I thought to myself,” You should have seen the black bag that I take with me to work every day.”

Seeing I was wearing a puzzled expression(表情),Vera promptly(立刻) explained that ”brown bagging” had the meaning of providing lunch for oneself or taking one’s lunch to eat in one’s office. Usually the food is kept in a brown paper bag, so it has this name. The persons who take their lunch with them are called brown baggers.

(  )1.The writer had lunch________.

A.     at home    B. in a restaurant   C. in the office    D. at school

(  )2. Vera was the ___ of our company.

A. boss   B. cleaner   C. manager   D. secretary

(  )3. The writer took a black bag to work__.

A.     every day  B. every Sunday C. every other day D. every two days

(  )4. “Brown bagging” means___.

A.     eat at home

B.     take one’s lunch to eat in one’s office

C. eat in a restaurant

D. share(分享)lunch with one’s colleagues(同事)

(  )5. According to this passage,__ was a “brown bagger”.

A.     Vera   B. the secretary   C. the boss   D. the writer

   In England, people often talk about the weather because you can experience(感受到) four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come, and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will clear(晴朗的), the sun will began to shine. It will be summer at this time of a day.

In England, you can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter you can swim sometimes, and in summer sometimes you should take warm clothes.

When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella(伞) or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them. If you don’t take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret(后悔) later in the day.

6How many seasons are there in one day in England?

A. One      B. Two      C. Three      D. Four

7  In the morning the weather is warm just like _____.

   A. in spring  B. in summer   C. in autumn   D. in winter

8 It is often too hot in England, isn’t it?

A. Yes, it is  B. No, it isn’t.  C. Yes, it isn’t.   D. No, it is.

9 What do English people usually take with them?

A. a hat   B. a raincoat   C. an umbrella     D. B and C

10 What’s the weather like in England?

A. warm    B. changeable   C. cold       D. hot

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce(确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically(生物学上)these sleepyhead(贪睡者)students aren’t used to the early hour.
　　“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent (青春期的)sleep at Brown’s School of Medicine.
　　Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns(方式).
　　Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.
　　Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it’s not just a matter of choice---their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.
　　All of this makes the transfer(迁移)from middle school to high school---which may start one hour earlier in the morning----all the more difficult, Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when they try to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying. “I need a timeout.”
【小题1】Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because _______.