“O gentle sleep!\Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee\That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down.”Henry IV, as portrayed by Shakespeare, would have sympathized with people who struggle with insomnia (失眠). Now a major publisher has come up with a novel idea.
In a project to be launched this week, Penguin Random House has cooperated with the Sleep Council and the Children’s Sleep Charity in creating collections of “Sleep Tales” for adults and children. Combining “cutting-edge technology and the ancient art of storytelling to help solve an age-old problem”, these audiobooks are part soundscape, part descriptive narrative, with softly spoken voices to calm anxieties and take listeners to the land of nod.
Each story lasts about 15 minutes, enabling listeners to set their sleep timer. The stories draw on the Sleep Council’s research into sounds that help people wind down, such as waves lapping on a shore, soft rainfall and birdsong.
Richard Lennon, publisher at Penguin Audio, told the Guardian the project was inspired partly by the realization that increasing numbers of people were listening to audio books “as they’re going to sleep or as part of their bedtime routine”. He said both adults and children respond to something comforting and familiar as they are nodding off.
Asked whether a boring story could have the same effect, he said the stories needed to be “engaging enough not to put you off”: “This is about creating the right environment and headspace for you … to go to sleep. Strangely, if you’re bored, it doesn’t have that effect.” Audience research had been very positive, Lennon said. One listener reported: “The story made my mind stop racing.”
1.Why is the poem mentioned at the beginning of the passage?
A.To introduce the works of Shakespeare.
B.To appreciate the rhythm of the poem.
C.To lead to the topic of the passage.
D.To offer an example of people with insomnia.
2.What’s the character of the audio books of “Sleep Tales”?
A.Their target readers are children.
B.Every story is long and interesting.
C.They are read vividly in different tones.
D.They can make listeners sleepy.
3.What can we learn from Richard Lennon’s words?
A.Not many people prefer listening to audio books before sleep.
B.A boring story is more likely to make people sleepy.
C.The environment is very important for reading stories.
D.The audio books prove effective in helping people sleep in the research.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A.Releasing audio books to send listeners to sleep
B.The new trend of people’s reading habit
C.Audio books are becoming more and more popular
D.Ways to help people sleep easily
高三英语阅读理解简单题
“O gentle sleep!\Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee\That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down.”Henry IV, as portrayed by Shakespeare, would have sympathized with people who struggle with insomnia (失眠). Now a major publisher has come up with a novel idea.
In a project to be launched this week, Penguin Random House has cooperated with the Sleep Council and the Children’s Sleep Charity in creating collections of “Sleep Tales” for adults and children. Combining “cutting-edge technology and the ancient art of storytelling to help solve an age-old problem”, these audiobooks are part soundscape, part descriptive narrative, with softly spoken voices to calm anxieties and take listeners to the land of nod.
Each story lasts about 15 minutes, enabling listeners to set their sleep timer. The stories draw on the Sleep Council’s research into sounds that help people wind down, such as waves lapping on a shore, soft rainfall and birdsong.
Richard Lennon, publisher at Penguin Audio, told the Guardian the project was inspired partly by the realization that increasing numbers of people were listening to audio books “as they’re going to sleep or as part of their bedtime routine”. He said both adults and children respond to something comforting and familiar as they are nodding off.
Asked whether a boring story could have the same effect, he said the stories needed to be “engaging enough not to put you off”: “This is about creating the right environment and headspace for you … to go to sleep. Strangely, if you’re bored, it doesn’t have that effect.” Audience research had been very positive, Lennon said. One listener reported: “The story made my mind stop racing.”
1.Why is the poem mentioned at the beginning of the passage?
A.To introduce the works of Shakespeare.
B.To appreciate the rhythm of the poem.
C.To lead to the topic of the passage.
D.To offer an example of people with insomnia.
2.What’s the character of the audio books of “Sleep Tales”?
A.Their target readers are children.
B.Every story is long and interesting.
C.They are read vividly in different tones.
D.They can make listeners sleepy.
3.What can we learn from Richard Lennon’s words?
A.Not many people prefer listening to audio books before sleep.
B.A boring story is more likely to make people sleepy.
C.The environment is very important for reading stories.
D.The audio books prove effective in helping people sleep in the research.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A.Releasing audio books to send listeners to sleep
B.The new trend of people’s reading habit
C.Audio books are becoming more and more popular
D.Ways to help people sleep easily
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Some classical music, _______ softly, can be gentle and help put one in the calming state of mind when just lying down to sleep.
A. playing B. played
C. having played D. to play
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Mother wrapped the baby, who was _____, in a blanket gently.
| A．fast sleep | B．sleeping fast | C．fast asleep | D．slept fast |
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HOW TO GET MORE SLEEP
Many studies warn that not having enough sleep may lead to serious health problems, affecting our daily life, work and study. You’ve probably known this for long, yet you still don’t get a full night sleep due to an incredible work schedule. So what can you do to make more time for sleep, and get a better night’s rest overall?
• Invest in a better-quality mattress. If you’re sleeping on a years-old, worn-out mattress(床垫), it’s no wonder why you wake up feeling tired in the morning. 1. With a new mattress that’s better suited to your sleeping habits, you’ll get to sleep faster and stay asleep consistently.
• 2. There are many habits that can affect how much sleep you get, including how much caffeine you consume throughout the day (and when you consume it — even a few hours before bedtime can interfere with sleep), whether or not you physically exercise, and how long you spend staring at a digital screen before bed.
• Take a closer look at your schedule.3. In Western culture, there’s a lot of pressure to fill up our schedules to seem important and socially integrated, so your daily activities might have some faults or unnecessary tasks that can be skipped or delayed. 4.
Sleep is even more important than you probably realized, but it’s entirely within your power to reshape your sleeping habits for good. Make sleep your first priority, scheduling time for it the way you’d schedule a meeting, and work the rest of your schedule around it. 5.
A.Watch your habits.
B.Some habits contribute to a good night’s sleep.
C.Without enough sleep, you could take more risks in your life.
D.A new mattress can be a big investment, but it’s almost worth the money.
E.Draw a line between professional and personal time, and make sleep a higher priority.
F.If you feel like you’re too busy to sleep, consider taking a second look at your schedule.
G.In time, it will become the new routine, and you’ll improve your health and productivity.
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Dale and her husband have ideas on how to spend a vacation. She wants to sleep on the beach for a week, but he prefers visiting museums.
A. reasonable B. brilliant
C. relevant D. Contrary
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Ten minutes of gentle exercise can immediately change how certain parts of the brain communicate and coordinate (协调) with one another and improve memory function, according to an encouraging new study.
The scientists invited 36 people of different ages to the lab and had them sit quietly on a fixed bicycle for 10 minutes or, on a separate visit, pedal the bicycle at a pace so gentle that it barely raised their heart rates. It also was short, lasting for only 10 minutes. Immediately after each session of the sitting or slow pedaling, the people completed a computerized memory test during which they would see a brief picture of, for instance, a tree, followed by a variety of other images and then a new image of either the same tree or a similar one. The people would press buttons to show whether they thought each image was new or the same as an earlier shot. The test is difficult, since many of the images closely resemble one another. It requires rapid, skillful scanning recent memories to decide whether a picture is new or known. Next, the scientists had each people repeat this process--riding or sitting on the bike for 10 minutes and then completing memory testing--but the testing now took place inside an M. R. I. machine(磁共振成像仪)that scanned the people's brains while they responded to the images.
Then the researchers compared results. The effects of the exercise were clear. The people were better at remembering images after they had ridden the bike, especially when the images most closely resembled one another. In other words, the harder their memories had to do their best, the better they performed after the exercise. The M. R. I. scans showed that memory parts of each people's brain lit up at the same time with parts of the brain associated with learning, indicating that these physically separate parts of the brain were better connected now than when the people had not first exercised.
1.How did the researchers conduct the study?
A. By filling up questionnaires.
B. By interviewing many people.
C. By comparing experiment data.
D. By referring to historical reports.
2.Who might benefit most from the study result?
A. The marketers promoting fixed bicycles.
B. The young people crazy about body building.
C. The white collars doing long-term mental work.
D. The blue-collars doing heavy physical labor work.
3.Which of the following statements agrees with the study result?
A. The light exercise is only good for young people.
B. The more the exercise is, the better the brain works.
C. The exercise can coordinate different parts of the body.
D. The exercise has more positive effect when the brain works harder.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. Even ten minutes' exercise may be good for the brain
B. There is no need for humans doing exercise every day
C. Only ten minutes' light exercise benefits the young most
D. Exercise can change people's brains and minds in a long time
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How do the speakers feel?
A.Tired. B.Enjoyable. C.Frightened.
高三英语短对话中等难度题查看答案及解析
How did the man feel when he was called on?
A. Worried and frightened. B. Quite embarrassed. C. Deeply ashamed.
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--- How do you like the material?
--- Lovely. It ________soft.
| A．is felt | B．feels | C．is feeling | D．felt |
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As I write, a gentle, much needed rain is falling this morning. It has been a dry_______have in Vermont,_______dry that the Spring Peepers(雨蛙) were late in coming that many thought these frogs would fail to bless us with their song. But they came, and I can’ t blame them for being_______. They are a_______of spring, and of rebirth.
It is late June and the mountain snow has_______the higher slopes(斜坡) of the mountains. My family_______our garden during the last weekend of May, and frost came twice since then,_______not a killing frost. But others were not so lucky: they lost most of young plants this year. Twice this spring has been_________enough in the day that my family went swimming, but there was _______on the ground the next morning.
Planting a garden in Vermont amounts to an act of________. Will our sweat________, or will these efforts be in vain? My family was recently faced with a________decision: shall we leave this place and its people, or shall we stay and make a__________? Well, we have decided this is________we will make our stand________the garden, this year we have planted ourselves. Will my family be________with what is needed to grow and flourish(兴旺)? We have no way of knowing this but we do have faith.
What is planted must be revisited often and the garden must be taken care of with love, which ________to our lives as well. Hopes and dreams must be revisited often or fear that we lose sight of the things________. Commitments must be ________as carefully as any garden plot. But as with gardening, there are no________. But there is faith, and today is a beautiful day.
1.A. summer B. spring C. fall D. winter
2.A. too B. rather C. so D. much
3.A. late B. lazy C. swift D. noisy
4.A. scene B. reward C. message D. sign
5.A. covered B. decorated C. left D. awoken
6.A. weeded B. watered C. cleared D. planted
7.A. luckily B. properly C. obviously D. closely
8.A. fresh B. warm C. bitter D. cool
9.A. snow B. rain C. mist D. frost
10.A. love B. prayer C. faith D. choice
11.A. pay off B. flood out C. fall off D. run out
12.A. primary B. tough C. random D. casual
13.A. mistake B. profit C. commitment D. compromise
14.A. why B. what C. how D. where
15.A. due to B. rather than C. along with D. regardless of
16.A. blessed B. surrounded C. filled D. satisfied
17.A. occurs B. applies C. submits D. keeps
18.A. hurt B. change C. stay D. matter
19.A. made B. tended C. settled D. reviewed
20.A. harvests B. possibilities C. guarantees D. advantages
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