公共英语考试

【单选题】American society is not nap(午睡) friendly. In fact, saysDavidDinges, a sleep specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "There’ s even a prohibition against admitting we need sleep". Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work. To quote a proverb: "Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven, laziness nine and wickedness eleven."
Wrong. The way not to fall asleep at work is to take naps when you need them. "We have to totally change our attitude toward napping", saysDr. WilliamDement of Stanford University, the godfather of sleep research.
Last year a national commission led byDement identified an "American sleep debt "which one member said was important as the national debt. The commission was concerned about the dangers of sleepness: people causing industrial accidents or falling asleep while driving. This may be why we have a new sleep policy in the White House.According to recent reports, presidentClinton is trying to take a half-hour snooze(打瞌睡)every afternoon.
About 60 percent ofAmerican adults nap when given the opportunity. We seem to have "a midafternoon quiet phase "also called" a secondary sleep gate". Sleeping 15 minutes to two hours in the early afternoon can reduce stress and make us refresheD、Clearly, we were born to nap.
We superstars of Snooze don’t nap to replace lost shut-eye or to prepare for a night shift. Rather, we "snack" on sleep, whenever, wherever and at whatever time we feel like it. I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in libraries, offices and museums.
The "American sleep debt’(Line 1,Par
A、3)is the result of ______.
A、the traditional misconception have about sleep
B、the new sleep policy of theClintonAdministration
C、the rapid development ofAmerican industry
D、theAmericans’ worry about the danger of sleepness
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
本题要求判断“美国人欠觉”这一结果是由何种原因导致的。依据文章第一段第二行There’s even a prohibition against admitting we need sleep Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work，依据文章第二段第一行We have to totally change our attitude toward napping．说明美国人缺觉是因为美国人对睡眠的传统观念有问题。故A正确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>