No More Morning Blues 消失吧!早晨忧郁
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- 创建于 2005年10月12日
- 最后更新于 2023年12月18日
- 发布于 2011年9月15日
- 作者：Mike Lee
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Do you ever wake up from a night’s sleep feeling like you haven’t slept at all? Does the snooze ___1___ on your alarm clock suffer from overuse? When you get to the bathroom mirror, do you see a tired-looking grump with severe bedhead ___2___ back at you? Maybe it’s time for you to get an alarm clock that is more sensitive to your needs.
你是否曾一夜睡醒后，感觉像根本睡过?是不是你闹钟上的贪睡按钮快被你按坏了?当你照浴室的镜子时，你是否看到一个一脸倦容且满头乱发的人绷着臭脸瞪着你看?这也许是你买个较能满足你需求的闹钟的时候了。
During the night, you ___3___ different cycles of sleep. Each cycle repeats approximately every ninety minutes. The stage of sleep you are in when you wake up can directly influence how you feel all day. So along ___4___ SleepSmart. It’s an alarm clock that records your brain waves ___5___ an electronic headband you wear to sleep. SleepSmart recognizes when you are at your ___6___phase of sleep before the time you have set for waking up. It then rings its alarm to wake you.
在夜间，你会经历不同的睡眠周期，每个周期大约隔九十分钟重复一次。你醒来时所处的睡眠阶段会直接影响你整天的感觉，所以智能型睡眠机便应运而生，它是种藉由你入睡时间时戴上电子头带记录你脑波的闹钟。智能型睡眠机知道，何时是你设定的起床时间前最浅层阶段睡眠的时间，此时闹钟就会响起，叫你起床。
Sleep-deprived students at a Rhode Island university invented the product after performing poorly on tests. They plan to ___7___ the product by next year. News of SleepSmart’s forthcoming release has excited much ___8___ on Internet bulletin boards. Sleep is essential to good health, so you can’t truly be healthy ___9___ you sleep well. Will products like SleepSmart lead to changes in the way we rest? That’ll depend on its effectiveness. If it helps ___10__ those morning blues, its popularity is assured.
罗得岛一间大学的失眠学生在考试表现不佳后发明了这项产品，他们计划明年以前销售这项产品。智能型睡眠机即将推出的消息在网络布告栏(BBS)里引发许多讨论。睡眠对良好的健康是绝对必要的，所以除非你睡好，否则无法达到真正的健康。智能型睡眠机这项产品是否会导致我们休息方式的改变?这将取决于它的成效，如果可以赶走我们的晨间忧郁，智能型睡眠机一定会流行起来的。
－By Ben Andrews & Robert Kelly
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(A) go through |
(B) market |
(C) button |
(D) chase away |
(E) with |
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(F) staring |
(G) debate |
(H) unless |
(I) lightest |
(J) comes |
Vocabulary
cycle [ˋsaɪk!] n. 周期；循环
electronic [ɪlɛkˋtrɑnɪk] adj. 电子的
deprived [dɪˋpraɪvd] adj. 被剥夺的
effectiveness [əˋfɛktɪvnɪs] n. 有效性
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snooze [snuz] n.【非正式】小睡﹐打盹
suffer from 受...之苦
grump [grʌmp] n. 脾气坏的人
bedhead 满头乱发 the term “bed head” or “bedhead”is used to refer to hair which is tousled from sleep
sensitive [ˋsɛnsətɪv] adj. 敏感的
come along: 出现 to develop or improve
headband [ˋhɛd͵bænd] n. 头巾；头饰带
phase [fez] n. 阶段，时期
forthcoming [͵forθˋkʌmɪŋ] adj. 即将到来的
excite [ɪkˋsaɪt] v. 引起；激起
bulletin [ˋbʊlətɪn] n. 公报；公告
essential [ɪˋsɛnʃəl] adj. 不可缺的; 基本的
go through: 经历 to pass through various stages or processes
chase away: 赶走,驱逐 push away; repulse
Answer
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1. ( C ) |
2. ( F ) |
3. ( A ) |
4. ( J ) |
5. ( E ) |
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6. ( I ) |
7. ( B ) |
8. ( G ) |
9. ( H ) |
10. ( D ) |