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.”

1.Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because _______.

A．it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime

B．it is biologically difficult for students to rise early

C．students work so late at night that they can’t get up early

D．students are so lazy that they don’t like to go to school early

2.The underlined phrase nod off most probably means _______.

A．turn around       B．agree with others   C．fall asleep         D．refuse to work

3.What might be a reason for the hard transfer from middle school to high school?

A．Adolescents depend more on their parents.

B．Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.

C．Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.

D．Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.

4.What is the test mainly about?

A．Adolescent health care.

B．Problems in adolescent learning.

C．Adolescent sleep difficulties.

D．Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.

 

五位中国学生要去英国留学，他们想要找住家。请仔细阅读第56-60题中的学生个人情况说明，并A至F六个选项中，帮助他们选择最合适的住家（其中一项为多余选项）。
______ 【小题1】Zhang Chao likes Chinese food. He hopes his host family speak a little Chinese.
______ 【小题2】 Li Wei likes doing sports. He wants to live near a park.
______ 【小题3】Liu Yong hopes to live near his school –Reading School. He prefers a bedroom with a bathroom.
______ 【小题4】Chen Yao wants to live in a big bedroom cheaper than ￡350 a month. She can’t stand pets.
______ 【小题5】Hu Mei loves pets. She would like a bedroom cheaper than ￡220 a month.

A Host family: The  Browns Nationality: English Address: 16 Church Road (near Reading School) Room: Small, with a bathroom Price: ￡280 / month	B Host family: The Johnsons Nationality: English Address: 10 Shinfield Road (near Wallen School) Room: Small Price: ￡260 / month	C Host family: Wang Lin Nationality: Chinese Address: 48 Queen’s Road Room: Small Price: ￡230 / month Other information: Good at cooking Chinese food
D Host family: The  Kings Nationality: English Address: 75 Ereigh Road Room: big Price: ￡300 / month	E Host family: Judy Nationality: English Address: 6 King Road Room: Small Price: ￡120 / month Other information: a pet	F Host family: The  Rays Nationality: English Address: 22 Workingham Road (near Palmer Park ) Room: big Price: ￡370 / month

 

My name is Tom. I’m nine. This is my mother. Her name’s Linda Johnson. Her telephone number is 13052864515. And this is my father. His name is Mike Johnson. His phone number is 13102884699. And this is my sister. What’s her name? Her name is Mary. Look! The boy is my brother Nick. Mary is eight and Nick is six.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案（10分）

1.Mother is        .

           A、Mary Johnson          B、Mike Johnson          C、Linda Johnson

2.Father’s telephone number is       .

           A、13120884699           B、13102884699           C、13052864515

3.Mary is         .

           A、six               B、nine                  C、eight

4.My brother is          .

           A、Tom               B、Mike                  C、Nick

5.My last name is        .

A、Johnson           B、Tom               C、Mike

 

请用正确形式填空

1.She wants her daughter _______ _______（be）a teacher.

2. I know the girl _______ （name）Mary.

3.It’s very kind of you _______ _______（come）and see us.

4. The man enjoys ___________（discuss）business with others.

5. When she ______________（hear）the news, she couldn’t help ______（laugh）.

6. There is a boy _________（swim）in the lake.

7. My sister _______（be）born on May 15, 1992.

8.Thanks a lot for ______________（give）me the nice present.