首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
职业资格
People often complained about not getting "a good night’s sleep", but sleep patterns differ from person to person. Most adults r
People often complained about not getting "a good night’s sleep", but sleep patterns differ from person to person. Most adults r
admin
2019-03-25
33
问题
People often complained about not getting "a good night’s sleep", but sleep patterns differ from person to person. Most adults require six to eight hours of sleep to function well, while others survive on only a few hours. Still, most people today think of sleep as one continuous period of downtime. This is not the way people used to sleep. According to researchers in earlier times, people divided sleep by first sleep a few hours, waking up, then going back to sleep.
Before the 18th century, people had no gas or electricity in their homes. Fire, candles, or oil lamps were the common forms of lighting. This lack of artificial lighting in homes contributed to people’s sleep patterns. It made sense for people to go to bed early. If you live in this time period, you might be a hard-working farmer, and you would come home, eat and quickly fall into bed exhausted. You would probably go to sleep at 9:00 or 10:00 P.M. In this first period of sleep—called first sleep—you would typically sleep until midnight or shortly afterwards.
Halfway through the night during a period some call the watch, or watching period. When you came out of first sleep, you would stay in bed and relax quietly. You might talk with a bedfellow, meditate on the day’s events or the meaning of a dream, or just let your mind wander. If you enjoyed writing or drawing, you might get out of bed to write a poem or story or draw a picture.
Then you would start to feel sleepy, so would return to bed and fall asleep again for your second sleep. This period would continue until early morning when daylight arrived. Again, with no artificial lighting in homes, people naturally woke up early to take advantage of sunlight.
Today, human may consider divided sleep a strange habit, but sleep researchers say that it is actually a more natural sleep pattern. Dr. Thomas Wehr of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has studied human sleep. He thinks that modern sleep problems occur because the orderly, natural way of sleep is breaking through the more recent continuous sleep pattern. Wehr and other scientists believe that artificial lighting has altered the way people sleep. In a research study, he asked 15 adults to rest and sleep in darkness for 14 hours (from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 A.M.). At first, the subjects took a few hours to get to sleep, and then slept 11 hours a night. Then overtime, they switched to divided sleep. They fell asleep for about 3 or 5 hours in the evening, stay awake for an hour of two and then slept again for four hours till early morning.
Unlike the people in the study, we modern humans generally do not practice divided sleep. However, many of us have the experience of waking up in the middle of the night. We usually consider this a sleeping "problem", but perhaps we should look at it as natural behavior. Divided sleep may be the way we should all be sleeping. A first sleep followed by a relation period and a second period of sleep could help all of us to beat the stress of our fast-paced lives.
What is the main purpose of paragraph 2~4?
选项
A、To explain what happens in a night of divided sleep.
B、To give an opinion about the divided sleep pattern.
C、To describe the life of farmers before the 18th century.
D、To explain the lives of writers and artists before the 18th century.
答案
A
解析
推断题。原文第二至第四段主要描述了分段睡眠的各个阶段,A项“解释在分段睡眠期间会发生什么”符合题意。B项“给出一种关于分段睡眠模式的观点”,原文第二至第四段主要是客观描述,而并非给出一种主观的观点,故排除。C项“描述18世纪以前的农民生活”和D项“解释18世纪以前的作者和艺术家的生活”均以偏概全,故排除。故本题选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/ZWD9FFFM
本试题收录于:
英语学科知识与教学能力题库教师资格分类
0
英语学科知识与教学能力
教师资格
相关试题推荐
阅读下列材料并回答问题。材料:唐后期起,古老的骆驼商道有了一条对等的海路。瓷器成为新途径的首选,方便、大宗、价值又高,能提高船东的利润。唐代瓷器注重异国情调、自然风格、雄浑的气质与彩绘的装饰。宋代瓷器则追求纹饰低调、比例均衡、形态流动、冷色系的单色
Whencheckingstudents’understandingofacertainlanguagepointinclass,whichoffollowingutterancesisateacherexpected
Thesenserelationofthefollowingpairofsentences(seeXandY)is______.X.MaryhasbeentoJapan.Y.MaryhasbeentoAsia
Socialchangeismorelikelytooccurinsocietieswherethereisamixtureofdifferentkindsofpeoplethaninsocietieswhere
Respectisnotincludedinthemarriagevows.Noillustratedbooksshowhowtoachieveit.Andyetitiscentraltoalasting,s
Thephrase"______"exemplifiestheincompleteplosionatthejunctionofwords.
Hecouldn’t______hisenvyofmeandhiseyesturnedgreen.
Twofriendshaveanargumentthatbreaksuptheirfriendshipforever,eventhoughneitheronecanrememberhowthewholethingg
Onlyaftertalkingtotwostudents______thathavingstrongmotivationisoneofthebiggestfactorsinreachinggoals.
China’sStateCouncildecidedtofurtherreduceandstandardizebusiness________tolowerthecorporateburdenintherealeconom
随机试题
焊条电弧焊时,应从哪几个方面考虑合理选择焊接电流?
患者,男性。双侧下肢、臀部、躯干部皮损2个月余,皮损为炎性丘疹、水疱、脓疱、部分小结节,中心有坏死、潜行性溃疡,皮损边界清楚,边缘皮肤呈紫红色、水肿,自觉疼痛感明显。血常规提示WBC11×109/L、N85%、L13%、Hb115g/L、PLT1
男孩,2岁,出生后不久有发绀,杵状指,囱门未闭合,以法洛四联症收入院。超声心动图检查叙述,错误的是()。
生物氧化是指营养物质,例如糖、脂肪和蛋白质在体内分解,消耗氧气,生成CO2和H2O的同时产生能量的过程。生物氧化的产物包括CO2、H2O和能量(ATP)。H2O的生成主要是底物在各种()的催化下脱下氢,脱下的氢通过NAD+和FAD的携带,经过由各种递氢
资本主义的发展经历了自由资本主义和垄断资本主义两个阶段,其法律也与此相适应而表现出某种变化,对此,下列表述中可以成立的有:()
根据《建筑法》规定,建设单位在领取施工许可证后,应当在()个月内开工。
实行会员分级结算制度的期货交易所中,结算会员( )。
(2004年卷一第55题)被指控侵权的被告在以下哪些情况下应当提供其产品制造方法不同于专利方法的证明?
商业保险与具有社会保障性质的社会保险相比较,其特点不包括()。
张某设立一社会服务机构法人,专门从事社会服务工作,甲、乙、丙为该社会服务机构的会员。如果该社会服务机构终止,对该机构剩余财产的处理,正确的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)