单选题 "It"s that time of the year again-back to school! With the new school year just around the corner I decide it might be a good idea to collect tricks on how to wake up early for school. Whether you are a student or a happy parent, I hope your advice will work for me. Welcome you to share your own tricks on how you wake up (or help your kids wake up) early for school!"
Advice 1:
One of the rules I put into place for my experiment was the rule that I could not use the snooze button, ever! When you hit the snooze on your alarm you are allowing your mind to wake up gradually. This may slow down your productivity and energy...
Advice 2:
This smart simple tip was found in the list of 52 Proven Stress Reducers. What this tip means is that first of all you need at least two alarm clocks. You will be using one alarm clock in a usual way—for waking yourself up in the morning. But you will set another alarm clock for the time when you have to go to bed.
Advice 3:
There is another great self-improvement tip which some people often neglect and which you can use to advance in any area and not just to learn how to wake yourself up early in the morning. And the tip is simple: get a dog, it will help you to wake up early.
Advice 4:
How to wake yourself up in the morning? Get a pet to do it? Okay, getting a pet BECAUSE you want to wake up early is a wrong thing. Do not do it. Never ever get a pet unless you love pets and unless you know you can take care of them. Pets are like kids—if you get one, you will have full responsibility for its health and life.
Advice 5:
We continue our quest to find the best ways on how to wake up early in the morning and do it consistently. If you search the web for "how to wake up early" or "alarm clocks" keywords combination you will definitely find Vincent Cheung"s article Alarm clocks are bad and how to wake up and feel better. This article has got almost 3,000 tips and a number of links for a reason. It includes the trick on how to wake up early that Vincent has successfully used for years and now shares with the readers of his blog.
单选题 The blogger is probably a ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 博主(blogger)的身份可能是______。通过第一段中的“new school year”可知,博主最有可能的身份是学生。
单选题 The writer of Advice 1 is trying to tell the blogger that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 第一个建议者想告诉博主______。第一条建议认为:不要在闹钟响了之后还要小睡(snooze),这样会降低你的创造力(productivity)。因此,A选项是正确答案。
单选题 It is implied in Advice 2 that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 第二则建议暗示了______。第二则建议中说道:你需要两个闹钟,一个用来叫你起床,另一个用来催你睡觉。暗示了不仅仅要按时起床,还不能熬夜太晚。故D选项(博主睡得太晚)是正确选项。
单选题 Among all the advice, which of the following two have divergent ideas?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 哪两条建议是相反的?第三条是建议博主养一只狗来提醒起床,而第四则建议则反对这么做。
单选题 The writer of Advice 5 tries to tell the blogger ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 第五条建议想告诉博主______。第五条建议中提到作者可以到网上进行搜索,能找到很多不错的办法,尤其有一篇Vincent Cheung的文章不建议使用闹钟,他的方法值得推荐。因此本题正确答案为C(上网搜索,重点推荐了其中一个)。