參考答案及解析
61題,定位到第一段最后一句“varies byculture”,所以答案選A——They areculture-related.
62題,由題干的大寫名詞Russian定位到第二段和第三段。第二段的“Russian, for example, began towake up about a half-hour later each day”這一句是干擾句,起得晚不一定睡得早,所以答案推不出“他們比其他地方的人睡得更久”。然后看到第三段“Russia’sother late nights and early mornings generally coincided withpublic holidays”,所以答案為C——They don’t sleep much onholidays。
63題,題干問的是歐洲人缺乏睡眠的major cause主要原因是什么,由題干的大寫名詞Europeans’loss定位到倒數(shù)第二段的“comparedto Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hourand a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch theCup”,原文的Germans, Italians, and theFrench就是題干中“Europeans”的同義改寫,而他們stayed up就是為了to watch theCup,所以說他們?nèi)狈λ叩脑虮闶荂選項——The World Cup。
64題,問的是富有的人使用設備來記錄他們的睡眠模式的原因。由rich people以及device定位到最后一段第一句,定位句只說到了記錄的事實,而非其原因。按照四級閱讀金三句原則看到定位句的下一句“And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person”,記錄睡眠的人是想要得到比普通人更多的睡眠,所以答案是B——Theywant to get sufficient sleep.
65題,問的是作者在最后一段所表達的觀點,定位到最后一句If the most healthconscious among us have such deep swings in our shuteye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? 作者提到了health-conscious,人們對健康的意識是缺乏的,對健康是視而不見的,所以答案選B——Fewpeople really know the importance of sleep.