Question

How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average (平均值) of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people have a bad night when they can not sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall sleep. This problem is called (叫做) insomnia. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special (特別的) ideas to another to make them sleep. Benjaming Franklin, the famous stateman (政治家) and inventor (發(fā)明家)，had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Lousis XIV of France had 13 beds and hoped that he could fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side on the end of the bed!
【小題1】.Most American people need________ hours of sleep a night.

A．3

B．10

C．7-8

D．5-6

【小題2】People need_________ sleep as they get older.

A．more

B．less（更少的）

C．no

D．little

【小題3】“The problem is called insomnia.” Here “insomnia” means_________.

A．going to sleep easily	B．sleep at daytime
C．the ways of sleep	D．not being able to(能夠)go to sleep

【小題4】Mark Twain lay on his side on the end of the bed because he_________.

A．was an old man	B．thought it was easy to go sleep
C．was a famous writer	D．didn’t have much room to sleep in

【小題5】The passage is mainly (主要地) talking about_________.

A．sleep	B．insomnia
C．how to go to bed	D．the famous person

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】D
【小題4】B
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：
【小題1】通過Most Americans sleep an average (平均值) of seven to eight hours a night.一句可知，大部分美國人的平均睡眠時間是7至8小時。所以本題選C。
【小題2】通過After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.“五十歲以后的平均睡眠時間降到每晚6.5小時�！币痪淇芍�，隨著年齡的增長，睡眠的時間在變少。所以本題選B。
【小題3】通過前一句Many of these people can not fall sleep“這些中的許多人不能入睡”可知，這里的“insomnia”是失眠癥的意思。所以本題選D。
【小題4】通過Some of these people had special (特別的) ideas to another to make them sleep.可知，本題應(yīng)該選B。
【小題5】根據(jù)整個文章的意思，文章主要是圍繞睡覺展開的。而B失眠癥，C怎樣睡覺和D著名的人物都比較片面。所以本題選A。
考點：本題考查關(guān)于睡眠的說明文
點評：本文說明美國人的睡眠問題一句一些著名的人物是怎樣對待自己的失眠的。閱讀短文是，可以先通讀全文，了解文章大意，并對于其中的詞匯根據(jù)句意進(jìn)行猜測；然后，帶著問題，在文中找答案，應(yīng)該注意同義句型的不同表述方式。