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     Newborn babies, unlike adults, cannot recognize day and night and will take time to adjust to the
24-hour clock. Therefore, the first few weeks of the baby"s life go in sleeping for the most of the time in
the day and at night as well. Though infant sleep patterns will be different for each baby, there is a
common pattern that one can observe in the sleeping pattern of little children.
     The infant sleeping patterns can be divided into active sleep and deep sleep. When the baby is put to
sleep, she remains in the active sleep mode for a long time where you can see her frequent body
movements, irregular breathing as well as brief cries. At this stage, the baby can easily wake up as she
isn"t fully asleep. However, if she isn"t disturbed at this stage, she"ll quickly pass into the deep sleep stage. On the other hand, in case of infants, they spend more time in the active stage than in the deep sleep
stage, so they wake up within a short time after going to sleep.
     Babies wake up during the active stage mainly due to hunger. Infants have little tummies (胃) and the
milk they drink gets digested very quickly and therefore, they start feeling hungry within a short period
of time. In addition, they wake up in the sleep because they need warmth or possibly don"t receive
sufficient air to breathe.
     Some sleep researchers associate night waking with the infant"s survival instincts
(本能). A baby who has learned to sleep in the deep sleep stage for a long time may not be able to
wake up, if she"s hungry or even when she"s getting suffocated(使窒息). This can be dangerous for the
infant"s life, so it can be said that the active sleep stage actually protects the baby.
     Besides, research has found the blood flow to the brain actually doubles up during the active stage
and that the brain is in the act of processing the information it receives during the time when the baby is
awake. Therefore, it can be said that active sleep is important for making the baby"s brain develop more
rapidly.

Title	Infant sleep patterns
Stages	Active sleep	● Babies move their bodies frequently, breathe (1) _____    or cry briefly.   ● Babies can easily wake up.
	Deep sleep	Babies spend (2)_____ time in this stage than in the active stage.
3)____        of night waking	● Feeling (4)_____ due to little tummies and easily-digested milk. ● Being in (5)_____ of warmth. ● (6)_____ to receive enough air to breathe.
7)  ___    of active sleep	Survival instincts	Protect the baby from causing any (8)_____ like hunger or suffocation to its own well-being.
	Speeding up the baby"s brain(9)___	● Double the blood (10)_____ to the brain. ● Provide chances for the brain to process the information received.
1. irregularly  2. less   3. Causes  4. hungry   5. need  6. Failing  7. Benefits/Advantages    8. harm    9. development  10. flowing
____1. Mathew majors in media and hopes to understand Chinese broadcasting and TV News and communicate with the Chinese people. ____2. Sarah is a learner of Chinese with a fairly good knowledge of basic Chinese grammar and a vocabulary of 2500, hoping to improve her Chinese ability in speaking, reading and writing. ____3. Lois majors in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and hopes to improve her ability in translation. ____4. Dennis once has taught himself Chinese and can speak a little Chinese but with poor pronunciation and grammar, hoping to meet the needs of everyday life and study, and understand each other in basic communication through training. ____ 5. Georgia specializes in the Chinese language and culture at the average. He plans to have a tour in China.                                                          A. Comprehensive language skill training      100 lessons in total focusing on pronunciation, grammar and discourse (语段). To enable the learner to master the basic knowledge of the Chinese language, to have the basic ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, so that they are able to communicate with others and to meet the needs of everyday life, study and sociality. This will lay a foundation for further study of Chinese.                               B. Intermediate (中等) Chinese Comprehensive Course      40 lessons in all, focusing on the training of the comprehensive skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing of intermediate Chinese. To enable the students to recognize, understand and use the active and less active words, to improve their ability of expressing themselves in paragraphs and discourse, to master the new words, patterns, grammatical structures, paragraphs and discourse and means of connections so as to express the meaning of the texts correctly and fluently in paragraphs and discourse.                                                     C. News Listening      Based on frequently used words, typical sentences and information and concentrating on improving the ability of listening comprehension. To improve the ability of collecting information, to grasp the knowledge and skills they have learned and to understand the broadcasting and TV news of similar themes and relevant level of difficulty with the correctness of 80%. To build up the foundation for further study.                                   D. Elementary English-Chinese Translation      25 classes in total, including various styles such as poems, popular science, political comments and news, about every aspect of everyday life. The texts vary from easy to difficult and combine theory with practice as well as translation and interpretation. About 185 hours are needed. To familiarize the learner with the equivalent (对应的) Chinese expressions of English. To enable them to know usage of Chinese and English words and sentences, cultural differences and the background knowledge.                                 E. Elementary Spoken Chinese in Business      24 units in all. Chinese words and expressions in business and trade are introduced in the form of vivid situational dialogues, notes and exercises. To enable the learner to master the words and expressions of elementary spoken business Chinese and to communicate with others in trade and business.                                   F. Chinese Human Geography      Introduction to geographic environment and cultural phenomena in various parts of China, such as natural features, historical backgrounds, religious sites, ancient battle fields, dramas and arts, traditional products, and special food, etc. Through the introduction to historical and cultural sites and scenery, the learner will have a general view about Chinese geography, history, culture and regional features.
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The time of year a baby is born can shape what profession they will embark on(从事) in later life, a new study has suggested.      Being born in a certain month appears to indicate the statistical likelihood of what job a person wil l end up with, the study by the Office for National Statistics found.      Researchers have uncovered that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything from intelligence to length of life.      A child born December is more likely to become a dentist while someone whose birthday falls in January will tend to a debt collector, they found. A February birth appears to increase the chances of being an artist while March babies appear to go on to become pilots. Meanwhile, April and May are said to have a fairly even spread of professions, births in the summer months mean a much lower chance of becoming a high-earning football player, doctor or dentist.     The study was got by researchers who analyzed the birth months of people in 19 separate occupations using information from the last survey, the Daily Mail reported. Although these trends may be difficult to explain, correlations between birth months and specific health problems have a scientific basis.      Spring babies are at greater risk of illnesses including schizophrenia, Alzheimer"s disease, asthma and autism.      They may also be less clever than classmates born in other parts of the year.
1. From the passage we can know if a baby is born on February. 20, it will probably become a _____.
A. footballer       B. doctor         C. pianist       D. teacher
2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Researchers can explain why babies will have different careers in the future B. Researchers make the conclusion just by analyzing the birth of people in 19 separate occupations C. Being born in a certain month will certainly determine what a baby will do in the future D. Being born in different months has no influence on what a baby will do in the future
3. What does the underlined word "correlation" in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. close connection             B. great influence   C. effective solution              D. reasonable conclusion
4. What"s the purpose of this passage?
A. To discuss a baby"s birth month       B. To describe different professions C. to explain babies" some trends       D. To introduce a new discovery
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When I enrolled at Pepperdine University in 1974, my mother exercised her parental right to express her worry at my departure. I responded with typical teenage indifference and ignorance. "Mom , I"m only an hour away. What"s the bit deal?" "You just wait until you have one of your own," she cried ."Then you"ll know what I"m feeling." It has been a little more than a month since my daughter Devin moved into her dorm at Occidental college, and life as I know it has come to an end. Or that"s what it feels like. Mom, you were right.      The nest"s empty loneliness is almost unbearable. Why does it hurt so bad? Science has an answer: We are social mammals who experience deep attachment to our fellow friends and family, an evolutionary throwback to our Paleolithic(旧石器时代的)hunter-gatherer days of living in small bands. Bonding unified the group, aiding survival in harsh climates and against unforgiving enemies. Attachment between parents and offspring assured that there is no one better equipped to look after the future survival of your genes than yourself.      The empty-nest syndrome is real, but there is good news for this and all forms of loss and grief. According to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, we are not very good at forecasting our unhappiness. Most of us think that we would be miserable for a very long time. Gilbert calls this the durability bias, an emotional misunderstanding.      The durability bias and the failure to recognize the power of our emotional immune systems lead us to overestimate how depressed we will feel and for how long, and to underestimate how quickly we will get rid of it and feel better.      For me, taking the long view helps. How long? Deep time. Evolutionary time, in which 6,895 days represent a mere 0.000000005% of the 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth.      Each of us parents makes one small contribution to the evolutionary importance of life"s continuity from one generation to the next without a single gap, an unbroken link over the eons(永久).
1. What message does the author want to express by telling us her experience in the first paragraph?
A. The empty-nest syndrome is really hard for old parents to bear. B. All people should learn to love their parents no matter how old they are. C. A person will not understand his parents ? love until he has his own child. D. The love parents give to children is selfless and should be respected.
2. According to Daniel Gilbert, the empty-nest syndrome is         .
A. caused by our emotional misunderstanding B. not a real problem but in our imagination C. the result of overestimating our happiness D. from our emotional immune systems
3. The author gets herself out of the empty-nest syndrome by holding a positive idea that        .
A. she can go to see her daughter regularly when she misses her B. her daughter will one day come back to her after graduation C. her daughter will understand her when she has her own children D. the departure from her daughter is much shorter than the history of life on Earth
4. What kind of role do parents play in the human history, according to the last paragraph?
A. They cultivate talents for the development of history. B. They help keep the life"s continuity without a broken link. C. They accelerate the evolutionary pace of the human beings. D. They point a right way for the next generation to develop themselves
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I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves,  most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of.In fact,  I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives (观点)by creating worlds we could step into,  take part in and live in.      With this unshakable belief,  I,  at fourteen,  decided to become a writer.Here too,  reading became useful.Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say,  but being unable to find the right ways to say it.He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts  of the writers he agrees or disagrees with,  or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world.He cannot write without loving to read,  because only through reading other people"s writing can one discover what works,  what doesn"t and,  in the end,  together with lots of practice,  what voice he has.      Now I am in college,  and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品).As a law student,  my reading is in fact limited to subject matter-the volume (量) of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else.Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life.Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own.It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road,  all from the comfort of my own armchair,  to experience,  though secondhand,  exciting experiences that I wouldn"t necessarily be able to have in my lifetime. 1. What can be inferred about the author as a child? A. He never watched TV. B. He read what he had to. C. He found reading unbelievable. D. He considered reading part of his life. 2. The underlined word "voice" in the second paragraph most probably means "________". A. an idea   B. a sound quality C. a way of writing   D. a world to write about 3. What effect does reading have on the author? A. It helps him to realize his dream. B. It opens up a wider world for him. C. It makes his college life more interesting. D. It increases his interest in worldwide travel. 4. Which of the following can be the best title of this text? A. Why do I read?   B. How do I read? C. What do I read?   D. When do I read?
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We know the famous ones-the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells-but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper(雨 刮器)?Shouldn"t we know who they are?      Joan McLean thinks so. In fact,  McLean,  a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range,   feels so strongly about this matter that she"s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning "who" invented "what",  however,  McLean also likes her students to learn the answers to the "why"and "how"questions. According to McLean, "When students learn the answers to these questions,  they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try."       Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean"s statement."If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper"s invention, "said Tommy Lee,   a senior physics major, "I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rainstorm into something so constructive." Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.      So,  just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well,  Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights,  so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield,  she found herself wondering why there couldn"t be a builtin device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama. Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas,  a lever(操作杆) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside,  became the first windshield wiper.       Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It"s hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Morgan"s traffic light. It"s equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett"s innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses? 1. By mentioning "traffic light" and "windshield wiper",  the author indicates that countless      inventions are________. A. beneficial,  because their inventors are famous B. beneficial,  though their inventors are less famous C. not useful,  because their inventors are less famous D. not useful,  though their inventors are famous 2. Professor Joan McLean"s course aims to________. A. add colour and variety to students" campus life B. inform students of the windshield wiper"s invention C. carry out the requirements by Mountain University D. prepare students to try their own inventions 3. Tommy Lee"s invention of the unbreakable umbrella was________. A. not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer B. inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper C. due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm D. not related to Professor Joan McLean"s lectures 4. Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage? A. How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers? B. How to Design a Builtin Device for Cleaning the Window? C. Shouldn"t We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper? D. Shouldn"t We Develop Invention Courses in Universities?