浙江省岱山县大衢中学2014届高三10月月考英语试题答案(4)

66. Which of the following people would feel most uncomfortable without the news media?
A. Steve.    B. Jaime     C. Roger.      D. Tomas
67. How many of them mentioned that they would miss food or drink?
A. One      B. Two      C. Three       D. Four
C
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 these sleepyhead 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 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.
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 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, adolescent are up against difficulties when it conics to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first hell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying. “I need a timeout.”
68. 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
69. The underlined phrase “nod off” most probably means “ _______”.
A. turn around    B. agree with others  C. fall asleep     D. refuse to work
70. What might be a reason for the hard transfer 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.
71. What is the text mainly about?
A. Adolescent heath care.     
B. Problems in adolescent learning.
C. Adolescent sleep difficulties. 
D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.
D
For a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers. They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.”
    Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army, I’m not alone in my opinion.
   First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding（追击）ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.
   Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts”Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.
 
72. From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer’s neighborhood ______.
A. jogging became very popular      B. people jogged only during the daytime
C. Alex organized an army of joggers  D. jogging provided a chance to get together
73. The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.
A. heart attacks   B. Back problems   C. famous joggers   D. physical weaknesses
74. What was the writer’s attitude towards jogging in the beginning?
A. He felt it was worth a try.   B. He was very fond of it.
C. He was strongly against it.   D. He thought it must be painful.
75. Why did the writer give up jogging two months later?
A. He disliked doing exercise outside.  
B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting.
C. He was afraid of having a heart attack.