【推荐1】How do you wake up in the morning? If you set an alarm on your phone or clock that sounds like this: beep-beep-beep, that hard, unpleasant sound may be making it harder to shake off the sleepy feeling in the morning known as grogginess (昏昏沉沉).    1    ? A recent study says yes. The answer is music.

Researchers say alarms that have a melody can help people feel fresher in the morning. The study, carried out by researchers in Australia, involved 50 people. They answered questions about the alarm sound they like to wake up to.     2    .

Sleep inertia (惯性) is another term for grogginess.    3    , and has trouble getting moving again after sleeping. People need to better understand sleep inertia’s harmful effects on human performance later in the day. The grogginess we may feel in the morning usually lasts for up to 30 minutes, but some may last from two to four hours. Not everyone will experience the full effect.

    4    , especially when they perform duties that require a top performance within this period or for people who work in dangerous situations shortly after they wake. So, what makes musical alarms better for waking up?    5    .

A．Possibly the different tones in it

B．Simply the single sound of “beeping”

C．So, is there a better way to wake up

D．So, what is a better way to wake up

E．But for those who do, care should be taken

F．It means a person has a heavy feeling when waking up

G．They also expressed how they feel about that sound and how they feel when they wake up

【推荐2】Stars blazed(猛烈地燃烧)in the sky above Spook like a million tiny suns. They shone through the mists, which had during the last year become thinner and weaker. At first, he had thought the world itself was changing. Then he had realized that it was just his feeling. Somehow, by burning tin in his body for so long, he had permanently strengthened his senses to a point far beyond what other Allomancers could attain.

The burned tin had begun as a reaction to Clubs’s death. Spook still felt terrible about the way he’d escaped, leaving his uncle to die. During those first few weeks, Spook had burned his metals as almost a self-punishment he’d wanted to feel everything around him, take it all in, even though it was painful, or perhaps because it was painful.

But then he’d started to change, and that had worried him. But, the crew always talked about how hard Vin pushed herself. She rarely slept, using pewter(白镴)to keep herself awake and alert. Spook didn’t know how that worked he was no Mistborn, and could only bum one metal but he figured that if burning his one metal could give him an advantage, he’d better take it, because they were going to need every advantage they could get.

The starlight was like daylight to him. During the actual day, he had to wear a cloth tied across his eyes to protect them, and even then going outside was sometimes blinding. His skin had become so sensitive that each little stone in the ground felt like a knife jabbing(猛刺)him through the bottom of his feet. The cold spring air seemed freezing, and he wore a thick cloak(斗篷).

However, he had concluded that these discomforts were small prices to pay for the opportunity to become whatever it was he had become. As he moved down the street, he could hear people turning over and over in their beds, even through their walls. He could sense a footstep from yards away. He could see on a dark night as no other human ever had.

________________. Always before, he’d been the least important member of the crew the dismissible boy who served as a handy man or kept watch while the others made plans. He didn’t feel annoyed with them for that he’d been right to give him such simple duties. ________________. Because of his street dialect, he’d been difficult to understand, and while all the other members of the crew had been carefully picked, Spook had joined through the back door since he was Clubs’s nephew.

Spook sighed, sticking his hands in his trouser pockets as he walked down the too-bright street. He could feel each and every thread of the cloth.

Dangerous things were happening he knew that: the way the mists lasted longer during the day, the way the ground shook as if it were a sleeping man, periodically(周期性地)suffering a terrible dream. Spook worried he wouldn’t be of much help in the critical days to come. A little over a year before, his uncle had died after Spook fled the city. Spook had run out of fear, but also out of a knowledge of his lack of power. ________________. He wouldn’t have been able to help during the campaign.

He didn’t want to be in that position again. He wanted to be able to help, somehow. He wouldn’t run into the woods, hiding while the world ended around him. He was sent to gather as much information as he could about the Citizen and his government there, and so Spook intended to do his best. If that meant pushing his body beyond what was safe, so be it.

He approached a large crossing. He looked both ways down the intersecting(交叉的)streets the view clear as day to his eyes. I may not be Mistborn, and I may not be emperor, he thought. But I’m something. Something new. Something people would be proud of Maybe this time I can help. ________________.

1. What is the real “change” according to Paragraph 1?

A．The thinner and weaker mists.	B．The changing world.
C．Spook’s sensitive feeling.	D．Allomancers’ strengthened senses.

2. Why on earth did Spook start burning tin?

A．To make himself strong.	B．To erase an emotional debt.
C．To show his honor to Vin.	D．To feel pain of his uncle.

3. What does the example of Vin serve as in Paragraph 3?

A．A reminder of Spook’s own pain.

B．An encouragement to Spook’s persistence.

C．A comparison for Spook’s burning metal.

D．An implication of Spook’s own change.

4. What discomforts was Spook suffering when moving down the street?
① The shining daylight that almost made him blind.
② The little stones that jabbed him like a knife.
③ The cold spring air that seemed freezing.
④ The sleepless people that turned over and over in their beds.
⑤ The awakened awareness of being unimportant when keeping watch.
⑥ His street dialect that made him hard to understand.

A．②③

B．①②③

C．②③④⑥

D．①②③④⑤⑥

5. Where can the following sentence most probably be?
“Perhaps he’d find a way to become useful to the others.”

A．①

B．②

C．③

D．④

6. What can we learn about Spook from the article?

A．He’s guilty and weak nephew of the great Clubs.

B．He’s a carefully-picked and most powerful member of the crew.

C．He’s a proud and self-sacrificing handy man of the crew.

D．He’s a strong-willed and outstanding Allomancer.

【推荐3】Recently, Australian scientists tried a new tracker on the magpies. They hoped to learn more about how far the birds flew and what they did during a normal day. The scientists are concerned that magpies may have a hard time adjusting as the world warms up because of climate change.

Australian magpies are medium-sized black and white birds. They live in groups of up to 12 birds and work together to defend the area they live in. It’s hard to find trackers that work well with small and medium-sized birds. But the newly-produced trackers were light enough and could be recharged without wires while they were still on the birds. To keep the trackers on the birds without causing flying problems, the researchers developed a special harness. It was tough, so it wouldn’t come off by accident. But it had a special release controlled by magnets, which allows the scientists to free the birds from the harnesses at a special magnetic bird feeder, without having to catch the birds again.

The researchers placed trackers on five magpies using their special harnesses. But just ten minutes after setting up the last magpie, they noticed something unusual: An adult female magpie was helping another magpie get free from its harness. In a few hours, most of the other magpies were also freed from their harnesses. By the third day, none of the birds had trackers anymore.

The scientists were disappointed about the trackers, but they realized that the magpies had taught them something else — that magpies are able and willing to help each other out, even if the bird who is helping doesn’t get a reward. This is called “rescue behavior”, and it’s not that common in the animal world, especially among birds. The researchers think this is the first time rescue behavior has been reported for Australian magpies.

The researchers are glad they’ve learned about the rescue behavior of magpies. But now they need to try again to figure out a good way to track these clever birds.

1. Why did researchers attach trackers to magpies?

A．To learn more about magpies’ habits.	B．To help them identify magpies clearly.
C．To precisely monitor magpies’flying route.	D．To further explain what rescue behavior is.

2. What does the underlined word “harness” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Feather.

B．Tracker.

C．Belt.

D．Recorder.

3. What are Australian magpies like?

A．Friendly but noisy.	B．Cute but unhelpful.
C．Brave and playful.	D．Smart and cooperative.

4. Which can be the best title for the text?

A．Climate Change Has Affected Magpies Badly

B．Magpies Teach Scientists an Unexpected Lesson

C．Researchers’ Understanding of Rescue Behavior

D．Findings About New Trackers on Australian Magpies