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Lesson Eleven On Getting off to sleep By J.B.Priestley A. Answer the following questions on the text : 1. What does the author think about the power of humor ? 2. Does the author think that most people he knows have no difficulty in getting off to sleep ? 3. Does the author fall asleep easily ? 4. Does the author feel sorry for not having an iron will ? 5. Does the author think it natural for a person to fall asleep as soon as his head touches the pillow ? 6. How does the author think about the matter of sleep ? 7. What happens to the author when he lies between the sheets at a late hour ? 8. What does the author think is the best way of inducing sleep ? Key A 1. The author thinks that humor is the saving grace of human being and we should die of vexation without it . 2. Yes , he does. 3. No, he doesn’t . 4. No, he doesn’t . 5. No, he doesn’t . 6. The author thinks those who fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows have something inhuman , callous and almost bovine. He thinks only those who are the victims of insomnia have human sympathy or depth in a man . 7. When he lies between the sheets at a later hour , he can do anything but sleep . 8. The best way of inducing sleep for the author is to evoke the phantom of a crushing , stupendous Bore . B. Translate the following into Chinese : 1. What a bundle of contradictions is a man ! 2. Our thoughts and mental images are perfectly tangible things . 3. I used to read , with wonder, those sycophantic stories of the warlike supermen … 4. The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion, and are only alike in their ineffectuality . 5. When her mind became disgusted with the monotony of life, sleep drew the curtain. 6. Her favorite device was to imagine a picture not hanging quite plumb upon the wall , and then to proceed to straighten it . 7. But I have not yet given up all hope of finding some way of hastening the approach of sleep . 8. This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jum