Your sleep position may be more revealing (暴露的) than you think, according to a surprising new study. You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control yourself, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, you often change your sleeping positions. The important position that best shows your secret personality is the one that you go to sleep.
If you curl up (蜷缩) in a ball when you sleep, you are not alone. Over half of people in the study curl up into the position when they hit the sheets. They have a low opinion of themselves and often protect themselves from being hurt. They’re shy and they don’t usually like meeting people. They like to be on their own.
Do you sleep straight, with arms at your sides? If you sleep on your side, you know your strengths and weaknesses. You’re usually careful. You sometimes feel worried, but you don’t often get unhappy. You always say what you think, even if it makes people angry.
If people reach for the stars, with outstretched (伸展的) arms, they are yearners. They are people who get up in the morning with an excitement to get out there and chase their dreams. These are also people who go after their dreams without a real focus. They can just be time wasters.
If you sleep face down on your stomach, with arms and legs all over the bed in a freefall position, it might mean that you want to control time and space in a way that you don’t feel you have in your waking hours.
1. Where will you probably find this passage?| A．science magazine | B．guidebook |
| C．sports newspaper | D．storybook |
| A．Someone who tries his best to realize his dream. |
| B．Someone who knows he is fat, but isn’t worried about it too much. |
| C．Someone who is not brave enough to express his opinion in public. |
| D．Someone who can manage his time well. |
| A．易怒者 | B．政治家 | C．科学家 | D．空想者 |
| A．Sleeping on your side is the best way of sleeping. |
| B．Changing positions will cause sleeping problems. |
| C．Sleeping positions show people’s secret personalities. |
| D．Enough sleep makes people look better and healthier. |
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【推荐1】Have you ever wished you could lie down under your quilt, stay at home and be away from the cold for the whole winter? It’s found that humans may be able to hibernate (冬眠) and it could be good for us.
Hibernation is a way for animals to spend the winter. They go to comfortable places and turn down some functions (功能) in their bodies. This helps them save energy when it’s cold and there isn’t much food to be found. When an animal is hibernating, its breathing slows and its body temperature drops. Black bears don’t eat, drink, or go to the bathroom when hibernating, while animals like bats sometimes wake up to find food or move to another place.
Although humans don’t hibernate, scientists think we might have the ability to. Sandy Martin says it seems that the common ancestor (祖先) of all mammals (哺乳动物), including humans, was a hibernator. This means our bodies could still have the tools to allow us to hibernate. Scientists have been studying a chemical called adenosine (腺苷), which passes messages to the brain to make mammals feel sleepy. When animals hibernate, they lower their body temperature. Domenico Tupone discovered that after putting adenosine in mice’s brains, their body temperature fell-just like it falls in a hibernating animal. As Tupone said, “Rats and humans have the similar inside circuitry (回路) of the brain. What we think is that this circuit is also in humans, but we have lost the ability to use it.”
Researchers are trying to decide how to use the power of hibernation to help humans. It’s possible that hibernating could protect people from some health problems. Doctors already purposely lower people’s body temperature, trying to treat heart problems. Hibernation might help astronauts travel further into space because they wouldn’t need so much energy.
1. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in paragraph 1?| A．Staying at home. | B．Keeping warm. | C．Loving animals. | D．Hibernating. |
| A．They don’t eat any food at night. | B．They sleep at the same place. |
| C．They have lower body temperature. | D．They fall asleep all the time. |
| A．Humans’ ancestors were not able to hibernate. |
| B．Adenosine may be a natural chemical in our bodies. |
| C．Doctors have solved people’s heart problems by studying hibernating. |
| D．Hibernating allows astronauts to sleep better when they travel into space. |
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A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Hibernating Is Useful for Animals | B．Hibernating Is Important for Humans |
| C．Hibernating Could Be Good to Humans | D．Hibernating Could Improve Our Health |
【推荐2】Several large companies have begun creating paper bottles to replace glass and plastic ones.
A company called Paboco has been working with many large companies to develop paper bottles. These companies are creating their own bottle designs.
Clearly, one of the biggest challenges is keeping a paper bottle from leaking (渗漏). The inside of the bottle needs a special liner (衬层) to make sure the liquid doesn’t leak through. Many companies are lining their bottles with thin plastic.
Though bottle makers may say this liner can be removed and recycled, many recycling programs don’t have the right machines to deal with these liners.
A Danish beer company called Carlsberg is working with Paboco on a paper bottle called the “Green Fiber Bottle”. Now the bottle uses a plastic liner. In the future the company hopes to use a “bio-plastic (生物塑料)” that will break down naturally over time.
But even without the plastic, paper bottles aren’t perfect. Most paper bottles use wood pulp (木浆). That could lead to the loss of forests.
Frugalpac, a company from the United Kingdom, has created bottles made of recycled paper, so no trees need to be cut down. Frugalpac still uses plastic liners, though.
But with so many companies working towards the same goal, we will see more paper bottles on store shelves in the near future.
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1. One of the biggest challenges of using paper bottles is _________.
| A．how to use few liners |
| B．how to make perfect liners |
| C．keeping the plastic bottles from breaking down |
| D．keeping the paper bottles from leaking |
| A．A Danish milk company. |
| B．A Danish beer company. |
| C．A company from the United States of America. |
| D．A company from the United Kingdom. |
| A．A company called Paboco has been working to develop paper bottles alone. |
| B．Many paper bottles have thin plastic inside. |
| C．It’s impossible to remove and recycle the liners of paper bottles. |
| D．The loss of forests leads to the use of wood pulp in most paper bottles. |
| A．Paper bottles are not perfect. |
| B．Bottles are made of recycled paper. |
| C．Some companies work to develop paper bottles. |
| D．Some companies work to develop glass and plastic bottles. |
When we were little kids, we knew about traffic lights. The color red means stop, the color green means go. And the color yellow means slow down or tells that you have to be careful. But why are these colors used for traffic lights? Why couldn’t they be colors like blue, brown or orange?
Well, it’s important to know that before there were traffic lights for cars, there were traffic signals (信号) for trains. At first, railway companies (公司) used red to mean stop, white to mean go and green to tell people to be careful.
But believe it or not, yellow was also used to mean stop in the 1900s.
| A．People said it was easier to see in dark areas. |
| B．Here is the history of the colors for traffic lights. |
| C．Most people agree the color red has a lot to do with danger. |
| D．And the train driver agreed that the color white isn’t as bright as a star. |
| E．Traffic lights really came a long way but they were truly a big success. |
| F．However, train drivers had a few problems with the color white meaning go. |
【推荐1】On weekends and holidays, when many Chinese teenagers learn things like painting and piano, kids at the same age in the United States like playing sports.
According to Time for Kids, more US teenagers have joined many sports clubs in recent years. Families spend over 10 percent of their money on their children’s sports careers(事业). The youth sports economy(经济) in the US has grown by 55 percent since 2010, according to Winter Green Research.
Ales Stearns is an eighth-grader at Mercy High School in Connecticut. The 16-year-old boy has been playing baseball since kindergarten. He plays it every day. He told TEENS that his family spends over $1,200 on his equipment(装备) and $300 on training each year.
Tristan Silveira, 16, from Los Gatos in California, also plays baseball. He plays for the All Star Academy, a club that has fostered(培养) many Major League Baseball players. Silveira pays around $50 for every private lesson he takes. His family has supported him a lot. “My mom drives me to every practice and every game,” he said.
Playing sports can bring many benefits. Teenagers can take parts in competitions. The top players in these competitions usually get full athletic scholarships(奖学金) for college.
However, there are negative things about playing sports. Studies show that early learning sports increase the risk of injury and depression. Rising costs are a big burden(负担) for poor families, reported Time for Kids.
1. What can we learn from the second paragraph of the passage?| A．Kids didn’t like playing sports in 2010. |
| B．Sports clubs are always full of teenagers. |
| C．Playing sports can cost a large amount of money. |
| D．Kids shouldn’t play sports. |
| A．their mothers drive them to every game. |
| B．they both play baseball. |
| C．they are both 16 years old |
| D．they both like playing sports |
| A．can be good for teenagers who don’t want to study |
| B．may help some students get scholarships for college |
| C．will injure teenagers’ bodies and harm their studies |
| D．decreases the risk of injury and depression |
| A．valuable | B．popular | C．unpleasant | D．happy |
| A．School P.E. Class in the US | B．Youth Sports in the US |
| C．Scholarships for Going to College | D．Benefits for Doing Sports |
【推荐2】Modern cities seem to just get larger and larger. People have to drive or take long subway rides to work, exercise or have fun. The COVID-19 pandemic has made many people rethink what our cities should be like.
Recently, a group of architects（建筑师）from South Korea have planned a “10-minute city” in Seoul. They will design a city with many functional（功能性的）areas, including living areas, study rooms, offices and entertainment areas. With only a 10-minute walk, people can reach all these places.
The idea of such a city is not new. In 2016, French-Colombian researcher Calos Moreno put forward the “15-minute city” idea. Moreno noticed that cities are still driven by petrol-powered transport. People spend too much time getting around. He said his 15-minute city would change our relationship with time and offer “quality of life within short distances”.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen growing interest in the idea because many people were forced to spend most of their time at home, with less chance to go outside of their communities. But within their communities, they can’t always get what they need.
“If our way of life is no longer making sense（合理）, perhaps it’s time to consider alternatives（替代选择）,” French professor Roxana Bobulescu told the website Business Because. 15-minute cities may be one alternative.
In addition to the advantages of being able to enjoy all aspects of life within a short walk from home. 10-minute cities have other benefits too.
1. What is a “10-minute city” like?| A．It’s a city that includes at least 10 functional areas |
| B．It’s a city where people can have fun for 10 minutes. |
| C．It’s a city that is mainly driven by petrol-powered transport. |
| D．All functional areas are reached with 10 minutes’ walk in such a city. |
| A．It will improve people’s quality of life. | B．It will be friendly to the environment. |
| C．It will make people get around harder. | D．It will make people’s relationship closer. |
| A．Reasons. | B．Problems. | C．Advantages. | D．Differences. |
| A．Ways of building a 10-minute city. | B．Other advantages of a 10-minute city. |
| C．Different opinions on a 10-minute city. | D．Was to live healthily in a 10-minute city. |
| A．Angry. | B．Positive. | C．Doubtful. | D．Frightened. |
【推荐3】The opening ceremony of an Olympic Games, whether the Summer or Winter Games, is a pageant (盛会). It attracts hundreds of millions of viewers on TV across the world. Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games? It’s totally different from that of the 2008 Summer Games. Because there were no stars, no celebrities or professional performers. Just common people showed the world who they are.
The message of the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games was peace. But the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games was different. The viewers were treated to a simple but wonderful ceremony. It didn’t have the large performances that marked the 2008 opening ceremony. But it was no less symbolic (象征性的) — symbolic of a shared future for humankind.
Besides, China wants to have a greener Winter Olympics. According to the Beijing 2022’s idea of hosting a green Winter Olympic Games, the medal podiums (领奖台) are made of recyclable and environmentally friendly things. The handmade bouquets (花束), rather than real flowers, will be given to the winners. And all the Olympic venues (场馆) are being run on clean energy. And after the Games, they will be open for the public all year round. In the future, many high-level winter sports events will be held in these venues. Also, during the preparation for the Games, all the work was done in an environmentally friendly manner.
For China, holding a simple, safe and yet green Olympic Games is not just an idea. It is a way of life for every Chinese.
1. Who did the opening ceremony mainly show?| A．Chinese excellent players. | B．Chinese famous directors. |
| C．Chinese professional performers. | D．Common Chinese people. |
| A．Peaceful but boring. | B．Simple but wonderful. |
| C．Simple and boring. | D．Expensive and wonderful. |
| A．Real flowers. | B．Handmade bouquets. | C．Cards. | D．Some money. |
| A．Future people in China will have a lot of money. |
| B．We won’t use the Olympic venues any more after the Games. |
| C．Every Chinese can live a simple, safe and green life. |
| D．The medal podiums are used only once. |
| A．A Shared Future for Humankind |
| B．The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games Ceremony |
| C．The Preparation for the Games |
| D．Greener Winter Olympics |
