March 16 is World Sleep Day. This year’s slogan is “Breathe Easily, Sleep Well”. Its aim is to celebrate the *benefits of good and healthy sleep.
Fangfang, from Liaoning, just became a high school student last September. She gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day and goes to bed at about midnight. Fangfang feels sleepy all the time. “I want to finish all my homework first,” she said.
Sleep is like food for the brain. Enough sleep helps the body and brain grow and develop. According to the National Sleep *Foundation in the US, adults need seven to nine hours of sleep every night. For students who are 10 to 17 years old, a healthy amount is about eight to nine hours every night.
But many students don’t get enough sleep because of early school start time and heavy homework. About 80 percent of middle school students don’t get enough sleep, the China Youth and Children Research Center reported. For some students, they want to sleep early, but they keep worrying about their schoolwork and can’t fall asleep quickly. For others,they may even have insomnia, and usually they have to ask the doctors for help.
These sleeping problems greatly *affect people’s life. Some doctors found out that *lack of sleep for teenagers lead to poor grades. Students without enough sleep cannot pay attention in class or do well in sports. Also, they often become anxious easily.
Luckily, with good sleep habits, it is easier to fall asleep. Some of these good habits include *avoiding drinks that make people excited late in the day, going to sleep at the same time every night, and sleeping in a comfortable place that is dark, quiet, and neither too warm nor too cold.
More tips to get a good night’s sleep:
Exercising during the day. You’d better do sports three hours before going to bed.
Don’t eat big meals before bedtime. Drink a warm glass of milk.
If you stay awake worrying about things, try making a list of things that you need to do before you go to bed.
【小題1】How much sleep do students aged from 10 to 17 need every night? 

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This is an old English saying (諺語). It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and clever.

Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you go to bed late, you can’t have enough sleep. Then you can’t think carefully and your homework will be wrong. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!

Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us sleep well. When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.

Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside the body. Blood takes nutrition (營養(yǎng)) to all parts of our bodies. The brains (大腦) in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better!

Our bodies also need air to breathe (呼吸). Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean, fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。

1.The old English saying tells us _______.

A. how to make more money

B. when we should get up

C. it is important to go to bed and get up early

D. to stay up late

2.A child needs at least _______ hours’ sleep every night.

A. 7????????????? ????????????? B. 8????????????? ????????????? C. 9????????????? ????????????? D. 10

3.If you want to make your body strong, you should _______.

A. exercise often????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. have enough sleep

C. go to bed early????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. get up early

4._______ provides nutrition for our brains.

A. Air????????????? B. Blood????????????? C. Exercise????????????? D. Sleep

5.Which of the following statements is Not true?

A. Enough sleep makes you think carefully.

B. The more sleep you have, the cleverer you are.

C. Dark is good for sleeping.

D. People will die without air.

根據(jù)句意及括號內(nèi)的漢語提示，用單詞的正確形式填空。

1.I really don’t know how to _______(面對) them.

2.When did you go to bed last night? You look so______(困倦的).

3.That trip is the most dangerous _________(經(jīng)歷)I have ever had.

4.Keep this ______(秘密). Don’t tell it to anyone.

5.I don’t want to make a wrong _______(決定) and regret it later.