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牛津译林版2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下册Unit 5 Good manners 单元检测卷(含听力音频)
How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average(平均) of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty, the average sleeping time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people have a bad night when they cannot fall asleep(睡着). The name of this problem is called insomnia.
This isn't a new problem .Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep .Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep .King Louis XIV(国王路易十四)of France had four hundred and thirteen beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them .Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of his bed.
What will man be like in the future-in 5. 000 or even 50, 000 years from now?We can only make a guess, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time. Now look at the chart below, and you'll find some differences.
Body part |
Changes |
Reasons |
Height |
Grow taller |
About 3 inches taller than 500 years ago |
Head |
Larger |
Man uses brains more and more |
Eyes |
Grow stronger |
|
Arms and legs |
Grow weaker |
Used less |
Fingers |
Grow more sensitive |
Used a great deal in modern life |
Hair |
Disappear |
Does not serve a useful purpose any longer |
Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature(生物) to look at!This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions(情感) similar to our owns.
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