杭州市白马湖实验学校2018年八下英语期中阅读专项练习(含答案)-教育文档

杭州市白马湖实验学校2019年八下英语期中阅读专项练习

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We have heard about people who have special memories. Recently there has been a report about a woman from Australia who can remember almost every detail (细节) of all the events in her daily life.

Rebecca Sharrock, 25, is one of just 80 people worldwide who have been identified(确定) as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory ( HSAM,超级自传体记忆症). It means she can remember every small event-which most people would forget with in (在......以内) days-as if it had happened just minutes ago.

"I remember my mum putting me in the driver's seat of a car and taking a picture of me when I was 12 days old,” she said. "

That's my earliest memory. I remember every day since then. I can't tell all the dates exactly because I was too young to understand calendars, but I remember what I did that every day, what the weather was like and so on.”

Rebecca can also re-experience taste. If she's eating something that she doesn't like, she thinks about Black Forest cake, her favorite food, and the memory will be so strong that she can nearly "taste” it.

However, sometimes her memories prove (证明) to be painful. Because they're not just events that she remembers. "When I relive （再体验) memories, the feelings return, too,” Rebecca said. "For example, I remember falling over when I was three at my grandparents' house and hurting my left knee. Talking about it now, I feel painful in my left knee. "

"At night, I have to sleep with the radio/recorder and a soft light on, she added.

"1f it's too dark or quiet, my mind would be filled with all these memories and I can't sleep. "

1.Whenever she is reliving her memories,__________

A. she is happy

B. she experiences the feelings again

C. she feels pain in her knees

D. she can taste her favorite food

2.What is the result of having HSAM

A. She can remember every event in her daily life.

B. She can re-experience taste.

C. She can relive feelings.

D. All the above.

3.From the passage, we can infer (推断) that________

A. HSAM can do her good, but it also brings her pain

B. she feels painful if she recalls her experiences

C. she can fall asleep while she is re-experiencing memories

D. HSAM can greatly improve her living conditions

B

Up to 65% of children don't get as much sleep as they should do, and this can make them nervous and slower at school, scientists say.

So how long should young people sleep each night? The answer is between eight and ten hours. If you don't get enough sleep at night, you'll have less energy the next day.

But the scientists say many children have missed out on 4,500 hours of sleep by the time they are seven years old. They say that children miss sleep because they have TVs and computers in their rooms,and busy parents don't read to their younger children at night any more. The traditional "bedtime story" helps children to relax and fall asleep peacefully. Children with TVs and computers in their bedrooms were more likely to sleep badly, and to get less than eight hours' sleep. Even losing one hour's sleep a night can mean that children do less well at school.

German scientists think that your brain (大脑) keeps working while you are asleep. To show that they were right, they gave two groups of people a problem to work out. One group went to sleep, and the other group stayed awake. The result? The people who slept worked out the answer more quickly.

This showed that their brains had been trying to find the answer while the people were asleep. So, make sure you get enough sleep tonight, and you'll be at your best tonight , and you'll be at your best tomorrow!

1. What problem do more than a half of students have?

A. They don't get on well with their studies.

B. They don't have enough sleep at night.