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III. Vocabulary 3. 拓展词汇： stuff v. rattlesnake n. tub n. soda n. cookie n. Guinness Book of World Records 塞进 响尾蛇 盆；桶；浴盆 苏打，苏打水 饼干 《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》 Secrets of Sleeping (Page 6) I. Questions 1. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Less sleep does not affect people’s health. B. Different people have different sleeping patterns. C. New measures can reduce the effect of less sleep on health. D. The hours we need to sleep may be affected by some gene in our body. Key I. Questions 2. The underlined word “alert” in Paragraph 4 is similar in meaning to ______. A. comfortable wide awake C. quite alive D. sleepy I. Questions 3. In the study, the mother and daughter ______. were found to have a mutation in the gene DEC2 B. were asked to sleep less than other family members C. had the same sleeping pattern as other family members D. suffered from memory loss for sleeping only six hours a night I. Questions 4. According to the passage, the new finding can help ______. A. recover memory loss B. cure sleeping problems C. get rid of mice and fruit flies more easily D. explain why some people need less sleep to feel fully rested I. Questions 答案： 1. D 主旨大意题。文章以人们对撒切尔夫人何以每天只睡四个小时感到不可思议为契子引出话题：到底是什么决定了人们所需的睡眠时间，并展示了科学家们的研究成果：某些人体内控制生物钟的基因变异使他们需要的睡眠时间比常人少。 Question I. Questions 答案： 2. B 词义猜测题。根据词所在的句子可以看出：“这对母女比家中其他人睡得都少，可白天依然精神、不犯困”。alert本意是“警醒的；警觉的”。 I. Questions 答案： 3. A 细节判断题。在研究中发现母女俩体内的基因DEC2异于常人。答案所述的异常睡眠模式是科学家2001年所做的研究；答案B、C和D与文章事实不符，母女俩本身睡眠时间就比家人少，不是研究人员的要求，并且她们也得到了充分的休息，没有出现记忆力减退的情况。 I. Questions 答案： 4. D 细节+判断推理题。科学家的研究就是为了揭开有些人需要的睡眠时少于常人这一谜团。 II. Language Points People have often wondered about Margaret Thatcher’s famous claim that she only needed four hours of sleep a night. “that she only needed four hours of sleep a night”是同位语从句，作claim的同位语。 同位语从句常跟在belief, doubt, explanation, hope, idea, news, opinion, possibility, thought, wish, fact, promise, suggestion,