When US student Olivia Priedeman, 17, woke up one morning, she thought she had had a dream about making plans with a friend.
But it wasn’t a dream. Her phone showed that during the night, Priedeman had read a text message from her friend. She did it while she was fast asleep.
Reading and sending text messages while asleep—called “sleep texting”—is an unusual sleep behaviour, similar to sleepwalking. It’s also a growing concern(关心的事) among doctors: young people can’t live without their cell phones.
One in three teenagers sends more than 100 text messages a day, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And at least four out of five teenagers said they sleep with their phone on or near their bed.
Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, has studied sleeping texting. She said that having a phone nearby all night is a big part of the problem.
Andrew Stiehm, a sleep medicine expert with Allina Health in Minnesota, agrees. It’s possible for the part of the brain that controls motor skills (动作技能) to wake up, while the part of the brain that controls memory and judgment(判断) may be still asleep. That’s why some people can perform basic movements ---such as walking, talking, texting or even driving—while they’re sleeping. Some of Dowdell’s students said that they’re disturbed by their nighttime texting behavior. But because sleep texting is unconscious, it’s a difficult habit to break. Dowdell said she knows of some students who wear socks on their hands to keep themselves from texting.
Marjorie Hogan, a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suggests keeping all electronic devices(电子设备) outside the bedroom at certain times. What happened to Olivia Priedeman?
| A．She sleepwalked to a friend’s house. |
| B．She dreamed of making plans with a friend. |
| C．She phoned one of her friends during the night. |
| D．She read a text message from her friend while asleep. |
Which part the brain controls keeps awake while asleep?
| A．judgment | B．language | C．memory | D．motor skills |
What does the underlined word “unconscious” mean?
| A．无法 | B．无意识的 | C．无反应的 | D．无规律的 |
What does doctor Hogan suggest people who sleep text do?
| A．Stop text during the daytime. |
| B．Take some medicine to control the behaviour. |
| C．Keep their phones out of their bedrooms while they sleep. |
| D．Wear socks on their hands to stop themselves from texting. |
We can learn from the passage that ________.
| A．It’s easy to give up a sleep texting habit. |
| B．One in three teenagers has a sleep texting habit. |
| C．Sleep texting can reduce the quality of one’s sleep. |
| D．Sleep texting does more harm to one’s health than sleepwalking. |
Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high schoo1．He loved his computer．He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight．But Johnny was not a good English student ,not good at all．He got an F in his English class．One day after school，Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office．The school office computer had the grades of all the students：the math grades ,the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English．He found his English grade from an F!Johnny changed his English grade from all F to A．Johnny's parents looked at his report card．They were very happy．
“An A in English!” said Johnny's dad．“You're a very clever boy, Johnny.”
Johnny is a hacker(黑客)．Hackers know how to take information from other computers and put new information in．Using a modem(调制解调器)，they join their computers to other computer secretly．School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers．So are the police，for some people even take money from bank computer account(账户)and put it into their own ones．And they never have to leave home to do it!They are called hackers.
Although hackers are good at computers.they shouldn't do anything against the law．
| A．the classroom | B．the school office |
| C．a bank near his house | D．his own house |
| A．Johnny was good at math |
| B．Johnny loved computers |
| C．Johnny could join one computer to another |
| D．they thought Johnny was not poor in English any longer |
| A．Johnny's parents. |
| B．School headmasters teachers and the police． |
| C．The police． |
| D．School headmasters and teachers． |
| A．Information． | B．Back computer accounts. | C．Computers． | D．Grades． |
| A．Johnny | B．computers | C．hackers | D．modem |
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are working? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to take control of(控制)your feelings and stop getting
angry so easily．Getting angry with people can make you lose friends．
Gary Egeberg，an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings
Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings．It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them．The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse．It can never make them better．Getting angry is not a natured(本性) way to act. It is just a bad habit，like smoking.The book says you can control your anger easily-all you have to do is telling yourself not to be angry．
When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it．Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do．
The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily．Here are our top three：
① Keep a record. Every time you get angry,write down why you are angry．Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily．
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry．This will teach you not to be angry．
③ Do something different．When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else．Try to laugh !
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercise | D．to help each other |
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
Last Tuesday, a little girl died after eating some fried chicken. Her father bought the chicken for her from a street seller in Fenzhuang Village, Fengtai, Beijing.After testing the girl, the doctor said she was poisoned (中毒) by nitrites(亚硝酸盐). Some experts suggest that we should buy foods with QS signs. They are safer.
After hearing about the accident, many people feel more worried about the food safety because there have been many food safety problems in our country these years. For example, poisonous(有毒的) rice, oil, milk and so on have been found out recently. People feel quite afraid because these poisonous foods are rather bad for their health and even kill them. They want the government to do something to stop such poisonous foods and drinks appearing again so that they can have safe and healthy foodsand drinks.
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Andy was a little country boy. He lived in the house on the side of a hill. There was a railroad track below the house and Andy often watched the train as it passed by.
One day, as Andy was crossing the track, he saw that there was something wrong with it. One of the rails seemed to be out of its place. Just then he heard a noise. Dear, dear! The train was coming! It would soon be there! He must try to stop it in some way.
Andy did not think of any danger to himself, but he ran and stood in the middle of the track, not far from the place where the rail was broken, and then he held out his arms and waited.
On and on came the train. The engineer saw the boy on the track and whistled for him to get out of the way. But Andy stood still and did not move.
The engineer had to stop the train. He was very angry as he cried out to the boy and asked him why he stood on track.
But when Andy pointed to the broken rail ，the man understood everything. Andy saved the train and the lives of all the people on it.When Andy was young, _____.
| A．he often liked playing at the foot of the hill |
| B．he often ran on the track up and down |
| C．he often enjoyed listening to the click of rails |
| D．he often watched the train pass by |
One day, as Andy went across the track, ____.
| A．he thought there was something wrong with it |
| B．he saw the train was coming |
| C．he found one of the rails was broken |
| D．he heard a noise |
When the train was coming,____.
| A．Andy stood on the track to hold out his arms |
| B．Andy ran to the train to stop it |
| C．Andy ran out of the track quickly |
| D．Andy cried out to the engineer |
As soon as the engineer saw the boy on the track,____.
| A．he asked Andy why he stood there |
| B．he shouted at Andy |
| C．he whistled for Andy to leave the track |
| D．he asked Andy to get out of the way |
When Andy pointed to the broken rail,____.
| A．the engineer got off the train and repaired it |
| B．the engineer understood and got very angry |
| C．the engineer understood why the boy tried to stop the train |
| D．the engineer came out to see what was the matter |
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!The writer wants to tell us ____.
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercises | D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to指的是____.
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
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