《高三英语能力提升限时训练4》.doc

高三下学期英语能力提升40分钟限时训练4 2012/2/20 完形填空The stress of daily life has given rise to a new phenomenon ─ sleep texting. People with this condition send text messages while asleep to their friends and family ─ completely ___(50)___ that they are doing it. Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported ___(51)___ of sleep texting ─ and he has advised people to leave their ___(52)___ outside the bedroom. He said: “We have had patients who have reported sending text messages to their friends and family while asleep. It is one of those things that happens, but it is very ___(53)___, and certainly not a common trend.” ___(54)___, there are no studies into sleep texting — but a ___(55)___ phenomenon, sleep emailing, was studied in 2008. Researchers at the University of Toledo reported the case of a woman, 44, who would ___(56)___ emails while sound asleep. She had no recollection(记忆) of sending the emails when awake. Dr Cunnington said cases of sleep emailing were more common, and were likely to have a more ___(57)___ effect on the lives of sufferers. He said: “Emails can be sent to work colleagues and have much more serious ___(58)___, whereas text messages are more likely to be ___(59)___ sent to a friend or family member, so people arent as likely to complain of a problem.” Dr Cunnington described sleep texting as the ___(60)___ of people having too much to do during waking life. He explained: People are doing so much during a normal day that it can mean that they feel like theyre on call even at night. “___(61)___ its so easy to receive emails constantly, and get notifications(通知) from smartphones（智能电话）, it becomes more difficult for us to ___(62)___ our waking and sleeping lives.” Dr Cunnington said people ___(63)___ to get a quality nights sleep must realize that the key point is that people need to ___(64)___ their sleep, and make an effort to switch off at night. A. conscious B. unawar