I don’t think there is anything wrong with your blood. The key to your problem is that long nap (打盹，小睡) after dinner. If you didn’t sleep for hours during the early part of the evening, you would be more ready to sleep at bedtime. If you didn’t nap after dinner, you would not want to stay up so late, and you would not feel the need to take a sleeping pill. The pill is still working in your system when you get up in the morning. This helps account for the fact that you feel tired all day. You should get out of the habit of sleeping during the evening. Right after your evening meal, engage in some sort of physical activity―a sport such as bowling, perhaps. Or get together with friends for an evening of cards and conversation. Then go to bed at your usual time or a little earlier, and you should be able to get a good night’s rest without taking a pill.

If you can get into the habit of spending your evenings this way, I am sure you will feel less tired during the day. At first it may be hard for you to go to sleep without taking a pill. If so, get up and watch television or do some jobs around your house until you feel sleepy. If you fall asleep and then wake up a few hours later, get up by do not take a sleeping pill. Read a while or listen to the radio, and make yourself a few hours’ sleep that night, you will feel better in the morning than you usually feel after taking a pill. The next night you will be ready to sleep at an earlier hour.

The most important thing is to avoid taking that nap right after dinner and avoid taking pills.

 

36. This passage is written to someone who ________.

   A. has a terrible disease in his blood

   B. suffers from sleepless night and tired day

   C. can not fall asleep in the evening

   D. has no interest in playing with friends

37. According to the writer, it is difficult for the person to go to sleep because he ________.

   A. gets .the habit of staying up late           B. hasn’t taken sleeping pills

   C. sleeps for hours after dinner                D. fails to do some exercises

38. The author thinks the logical order of the following events should be ________.

a. feeling bad in the day                          b. taking sleeping pills

   c. unable to fall asleep at bedtime            d. napping after dinner

A. abcd               B. cbda               C. dcba            D. dbac

39. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A. Sleeping pills cannot help you get a good night’s sleep.

   B. You should stay up if you want to sleep peacefully.

   C. Food is necessary at night if you fail to go to sleep.

   D. Going to bed too early does not help you sleep well.

40. We may infer that the author is most probably a ________.

   A. doctor         B. scientist                 C. reporter          D. professors

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Obama Still Smokes in Secret
US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.
At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.
Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn’t completely kicked the habit. Every now and then he still smokes in secret.
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“I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don ?t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．
"Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．
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B．tobacco industry
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D．US Food and Drug Administration
【小題2】What do we know about Obama?
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B．He still smokes as usual．
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D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．
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Obama Still Smokes in Secret

US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.

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Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn’t completely kicked the habit. Every now and then he still smokes in secret.

“As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No.” Obama said at a news conference.

“I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don ?t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．

"Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．

         Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．

1.The new law makes life difficult for              .

A．Obama

B．tobacco industry

C．White House

D．US Food and Drug Administration

2.What do we know about Obama?

A．He no longer smokes

B．He still smokes as usual

C．He began to smoke at eighteen

D．He is trying hard to give up smoking

3.According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about           ．

A．children       B．officials

C．his family        D．businessmen

 

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Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn’t completely kicked the habit．Every now and then he still smokes in secret．

“As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time．Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes．Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No．” Obama said at a news conference．

“I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don 't do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．

"Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．

Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．

1.The new law makes life difficult for             ．

A．Obama

B．tobacco industry

C．White House

D．US Food and Drug Administration

2.What do we know about Obama?

A．He no longer smokes．

B．He still smokes as usual．

C．He began to smoke at eighteen．

D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．

3.According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about           ．

A．children

B．officials

C．his family

D．businessmen

 

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