Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong.
The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
小題1:According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.
A．people who stay up until the next morning
B．people who get up early in the morning
C．people who feel sleepy in the morning
D．people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning
小題2:Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?
A．Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time.
B．Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise.
C．Because he / she wanted to test which school is better.
D．Because he / she found that the productivity was higher.
小題3:The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.
A．going to bed after midnight
B．asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits
C．getting up early occasionally
D．pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping
小題4:What’s the author’s sleep pattern?
A．Going to bed early and getting up early.
B．Going to bed late and getting up late.
C．Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time.
D．Going to bed early and getting up late.
小題5:The passage is mainly about ________.
A．main schools of thought on sleep patternsB．how to have a good sleep
C．wrong strategies for getting up earlyD．how to become an early riser

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:D

試題分析：本文講述的是我努力成為一個早起的人的過程以及最后的結果。
小題1:B 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段前3行But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser.可知這里的 morning people指的是那些早起的人，故B正確。
小題2:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段2,3行On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser.可知D正確。
小題3:B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight,和On those rare occasions where I did get up early以及whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep.可知ACD三項內容都是文章中提及的，只有B項文章沒有涉及。故B符合要求。
小題4:C 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways可知C項符合題意。故C正確。
小題5:D 主旨大意題。通過全文可知本文講述的是我努力成為一個早起的人的過程以及最后的結果。故D正確。
點評：本文講述的是我努力成為一個早起的人的過程以及最后的結果。本文考查細節(jié)題為主，細節(jié)題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時使用的具體事實、數(shù)據(jù)、圖表等細節(jié)信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細節(jié)。做這類題一般采用尋讀法?即先讀題，然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文，找出與問題有關的詞語或句子，再對相關部分進行分析對比，找出答案。
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