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It doesn't matter when or how long a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors' thought, until they heard about Jerry Page. Jerry Page, it was said, never slept. Could this be true？ The doctors decided to see this strange man by themselves.
Jerry Page was ninety years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw Jerry Page sleeping. Actually, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Jerry Page got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Page remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason？ No one could be sure.
The main idea of this passage is that _________.
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A student who enters a university in the second half of 20th century is in a new situation. He is not like the young man of the early 19th century who came to sit at the feet of his masters and left as a master. That situation no longer exists, because now it is not only the student who changes. He may grow fast, but science grows still faster.
Today a student cannot master knowledge, he can only be its servant. He knows that he can become familiar (熟悉) with only a small comer of knowledge and that his learning will always be imperfect and imcomplete. But he can still hope to add something to the sum(总量) of knowledge, and so make the situation slightly more difficult for those who come after him.
The phrase "in the second half of the 20th century" means _________.
第二节 完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
In 1980 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then. The report was the result of a three-year study.
According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2,000 is not a 【B1】 one. The world will be more crowded because the population will continue to grow. The population could be 【B2】 6,300 million, almost 2,500 million more than in 1975. More people would move into cities, especially cities in 【B3】 countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would each have 15 million by then. Food production will 【B4】 , but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90 % more food than they did in 1975, but most of the increase would be in countries that 【B5】 produce enough food for their people. Little increase is 【B6】 in South Asia, Africa and 【B7】 Poor farming ways are 【B8】 large areas of crop land, changing farms into 【B9】 More farmland is 【B10】 as cities become larger and houses are built. 【B11】 will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil. Much of the world's 【B12】 could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a 【B13】 problem. The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2,000 【B14】 They only carried forward the situation that 【B15】 today. By changing the situation, by settling the problems, the picture can be 【B16】 . There is 【B17】 time for the nations of the world to work together 【B18】 a plan of action. But they warned that 【B19】 too long to make decisions would greatly reduced the 【B20】 of success.
【B1】
【B15】
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听力原文：M: Sally! Sally! Could you please turn off the radio？ I hate to have to say this, but it's too noisy here.
W: What？ But...
M: You know I'm reading my books and I'm preparing for my English exam this afternoon.
W: I know that. But I'm not listening to the radio. The noise comes from our neighbours upstairs.
M: Oh! How terrible! I'll talk to them and let them be quiet!
Why is the man so annoyed？
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