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Multiple Choice-With-Multiple-Answer

Questions 1 - 3
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题目 1

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The researchers believe the weekend lie-in is very important for busy children. / The findings show that overweight children tend to wake up earlier and sleep less. / The researchers do not know the reasons why obese children are less likely to sleep late on weekends.

解释

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The scientists involved believe the weekend lie-in is vital for school-age children to catch up on the sleep they lose during a busy week at school.

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题目 2

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The researchers believe the weekend lie-in is very important for busy children. / The findings show that overweight children tend to wake up earlier and sleep less. / The researchers do not know the reasons why obese children are less likely to sleep late on weekends.

解释

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Overweight and obese children tended to wake up earlier and had shorter sleep durations throughout weekdays, weekends and holidays than their normal-weight peers.

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题目 3

正确答案

The researchers believe the weekend lie-in is very important for busy children. / The findings show that overweight children tend to wake up earlier and sleep less. / The researchers do not know the reasons why obese children are less likely to sleep late on weekends.

解释

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However, the researchers were not quite sure why obese and overweight children were less likely to sleep late on weekends, but indicated that they tended to spend more time doing their homework and watching television than their normal- weight peers.

Matching Information

Questions 4 - 9
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题目 4

正确答案

C

解释

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Although estimates for obesity rates have recently been lowered, current expectations are that close to one in three boys aged from two to eleven are likely to be overweight or obese by the year 2020.

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题目 5

正确答案

E

解释

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What the researchers found most interesting was that those children who managed to catch up on missed sleep on the weekend actually remained relatively slim while those who did not had a higher probability of putting on weight (as measured by body mass index, or BMI).

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题目 6

正确答案

FALSE

解释

Location: Paragraph F

However, the researchers were not quite sure why obese and overweight children were less likely to sleep late on weekends, but indicated that they tended to spend more time doing their homework and watching television than their normal- weight peers.

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题目 7

正确答案

B

解释

Location: Paragraph B

This catch up sleep helps the children to regulate calorie consumption by cutting down on eating snacks during waking hours, Scientists and others in the medical fields have long known that a lack of sleep and irregular sleep patterns causes obesity as this combination affects the body’s natural metabolism and tends to also encourage snacking to reduce the feeling of tiredness.

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题目 8

正确答案

D

解释

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Yun Kwok Wing of Hong Kong University and other experts investigated the possibility that catching up on sleep at the weekends would help youngsters to overcome such disruption of the bodies metabolism.

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题目 9

正确答案

G

解释

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The findings could be of help in slowing down the ongoing increase in childhood obesity, but for the time being, parents should be observant of their children’s wake-sleep cycles, and take steps to ensure they are getting enough sleep, the researchers advised.

Summary Completion

Questions 10 - 13
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题目 10

正确答案

lost

解释

Location: Paragraph E

What the researchers found most interesting was that those children who managed to catch up on missed sleep on the weekend actually remained relatively slim while those who did not had a higher probability of putting on weight (as measured by body mass index, or BMI).

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题目 11

正确答案

gain

解释

Location: Paragraph E

What the researchers found most interesting was that those children who managed to catch up on missed sleep on the weekend actually remained relatively slim while those who did not had a higher probability of putting on weight (as measured by body mass index, or BMI).

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题目 12

正确答案

recent

解释

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The study authors mentioned that reduced sleep duration has become a hallmark of modern society, with people generally sleeping one to two hours less than a few decades ago and children were no exception to this.

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题目 13

正确答案

remain

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Location: Paragraph E

What the researchers found most interesting was that those children who managed to catch up on missed sleep on the weekend actually remained relatively slim while those who did not had a higher probability of putting on weight (as measured by body mass index, or BMI).

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