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     LOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-old might have made young people yawn(打哈欠)and roll theft eyes.

     But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozen Los Angeles-area youth leaders to take education seriously, his audience was listening.

     The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the fives fives(一种游戏) of others in the future,they must work at improving their own fives now."Education is one of the most important weapons you have,"Mandela advised,"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community."

     "The point is,he was young once and rebellious(反叛的)once and he kept his dream alive,just as you each have dreams." Explained South Africa's ambassador to the United States,Sheita Sisulu,as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd.

     Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis,Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse(唤醒)more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start.

    "There is an impression that Americans,in general,have not followed international developments properly,"Mandela said,"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world."  

     22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion."He's a person who set the tone(格调)for an entire nation."said Trice.

     "You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done."Trice said.

1.From the passage,we can conclude that American youth_____

A.are willing to accept the advice from world-famous leaders

B.usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering

C.have a good understanding of the old

D.have no intention to improve the fives of others

2.Nelson Mandela makes the point in his speech that American youth leaders should_____

A.improve their own fives   

B.go to college for better education

C.put more importance on education

D.become interested in foreign affairs

3.What Sheila Sisulu said suggested that      

A.Nelson Mandela never lost hope in his life

B.was especially troublesome when young

C.Nelson Mandela was quite different from American youth when young

D.American youth should be no more rebellious

4.From what Trice said,we can know that    

A.he was greatly impressed and encouraged by Mandela's speech

B.he thought little of Mandela's speech

C.he must be a superman in order to change society

D. he'll be more interested in international development

答案

1-4 BCAA

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When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will become quite regular. Your brain waves slow down a bit, with the alpha rhythm predominating for the first few minutes. This is the first stage of sleep. For the next 30 minutes or so, you will drift down through Stage 2 and Stage 3. The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be. About 40-60 minutes after you lose consciousness, you will reach the last stage. Your brain waves will show the delta rhythm. You may think that you stay at this deep stage all the rest of the night, but that turns out not to be the case. About 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your activity cycle will increase slightly. The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves. Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids. This period of Rapid Eye Movements lasts for 8-15 minutes and is called REM sleep.
During both light and deep sleep, the muscles in your body are relaxed but capable of movement. As you slip into REM sleep, a very odd thing occurs -- most of the voluntary muscles in your body become paralyzed. Although your brain shows very rapid bursts of neural activity during REM sleep, your body is incapable of moving. REM sleep is accompanied by extensive muscular inhibition.

In this passage, the word "paralyzed" means unable to______.

A.move

B.think

C.work

D.speak