He ______ a habit of reading a few pages of English novels every day.
A.acquired
B.produced
C.created
D.proclaimed
A.acquired
B.produced
C.created
D.proclaimed
A.habit
B.hobby
C.custom
D.like
It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that ______.
A.everyone would like to widen their cultural scope if they can
B.the obstacles to overcoming cultural parochialism lie mainly in people's habit of thinking
C.provided one's brought up in a culture, he may be with bias in making cultural evaluations
D.childhood is an important stage in comprehending culture
1.If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _______.
A、he is a lazy person
B、he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
C、he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening
2.Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage_______.
A、Unawareness of energy cycles.
B、Familiar monologues.
C、A change in a family member’s energy cycle.
D、A change in a family member’s energy cycle.
3.If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should _____.
A、change his energy cycle
B、overcome his laziness
C、go to bed earlier
4.You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will ______.
A、help to keep your energy for the day’s work
B、help you to control your temper early in the day
C、enable you to concentrate on your routine work
D、keep your energy cycle under control all day
5.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE_______.
A、Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one’s energy.
B、Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day.
C、Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle.
D、Children have energy cycles, too.
Today, cigarette smoking is a common habit. About forty-three percent of the adult men and thirty-one percent of the adult women in the United States smoke cigarettes regularly. It is encouraging to see that millions of people have given up smoking.
It is a fact that men as a group smoke more than women. Among both men and women the age group with the highest proportion of smokers is 24-44.
Income, education, and occupation all play a part in determining a person's smoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer years of schooling and lower incomes. On the other hand, if a well-educated man with a higher income smoked at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.
The situation is somewhat different for women. (80) There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family income and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups. These more highly .educated women tend to smoke more heavily.
Among teenagers the picture is similar. There are fewer teenaged smokers from upperincome, well-educated families, and fewer from families living in farm areas. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke.
What do we know from the first paragraph?
A.More and more people take up the habit of smoking.
B.There are more smoking women than smoking men in the U. S. A.
C.It is good news that more people have given up smoking.
D.The U. S, has more smoking people than any other country.
A.in the habit
B.going for a walk
C.every morning
D.except it rains
A.in the habit of
B.going
C.along
D.except
A.custom
B.habit
C.routine
D.practice
How to Find Time to Read
Do you want to know how to improve yourself all the time without having to spend more time reading because you get involved in work everyday? Does it sound too good to be true? Well, read on, please.
An Average Reader
If you are an average reader you can read an average book at the rate of 300 words a minute. You cannot maintain that average, however, unless you read regularly every day. Nor can you reach that speed with hard books in science, mathematics, agriculture, business, or any subject that is new or unfamiliar to you. The chances are that you will never attempt that speed with poetry or want to race through some passages in fiction over which you wish to linger. But for most of the novels, biographies, and books about travel, hobbies or personal interests, if you are an average reader you should have no trouble at all in absorbing meaning and pleasure out of 300 printed words every 60 seconds.
Statistics are not always practical, but consider the following: If the average reader can read 300 words a minute of average reading, then in 15 minutes he can read 4 500 words. Multiplied by 7, the days of the week, the product is 315 000. Another multiplication by 12, the months of the year, results in a grand total of 1 512 000 words. That is the total number of words of average reading an average reader can do in just 15 minutes a day for one year.
Books vary in length from 60 000 to 1 000 000 words. The average is about 75 000 words. In one year of average reading by an average reader for 15 minutes a day, 20 books will be read. That's a lot of books. It is 4 times the number of books read by public-library borrowers in America. And yet it is easily possible.
Sir William Osier
One of the greatest of all modern physicians was Sir William Osier. He taught at the Johns Hopkins Medical School He finished his teaching days at McGill University. Many of the out-standing physicians today were his students. Nearly all of the practicing doctors of today were brought up on his medical textbooks. Among his many remarkable contributions to medicine are his unpublished notes on how the people die.
His greatness is attributed by his biographers and critics not alone to his profound medical knowledge and insight but to his broad general education, for he was a very cultured man. He was very interested in what men have done and taught throughout the ages. And he knew that the only way to find out what the best experiences of the race had been was to read what people had written. But Osler's problem was the same as everyone else's, only more so. He was a busy physician, a teacher of physicians, and a medical-research specialist. There was no time in a 4-hour day that did not rightly belong to one of these three occupations, except the few hours for sleep, meals, and bodily functions.
Osler arrived at his solution early. He would read the last 15 minutes before he want to sleep. If bedtime was set for 11:00 Pm, he read from 11:00 to 11:15. If research kept him up to 2:00 AM, he read from 2:00 to 2:15. Over a very long time, Osler never broke the role once he had established it. We have evidence that after a while he simply could not fall asleep until he had done his 15 minutes of reading.
In his lifetime, Osler read a significant library of books. Just do a mental calculation for halfa century of 15-minute reading periods daily and see how many books you get. Consider what a range of interests and variety of subjects are possible in one lifetime. Osler read widely outside of medical specialty. Indeed, he developed from this 15-minute reading habit a vocational specialty to balance his vocational specialization. Among scholars in English literature, Osler is known as an authority on Sir Thomas Browne, seventeenth century English prose master, and Osler's library on Sir Thomas is considered one of t
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
A.extreme
B.extremely
C.extremist
D.extremeness