托福阅读：挑战TIME第01期-智课教育旗下智课教育.pdf

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 托福阅读：挑战TIME第01期-智课教育旗下智课教育 本文和大家分享的是托福阅读：挑战TIME第01期，想要测评阅读 水平的考生可以试试看文中提供的托福阅读训练材料，希望能给大家的 托福备考带来帮助。 托福阅读 复习了很久，却不知道自己的水平如何？快来看看智课教 育小编为您整理的挑战TIME系列，大家可以通过这一系列的托福阅读 训练，来了解自己目前的水平，快来挑战吧！ 【Introduction】 对于大多数美国人而言，睡个好觉越来越成个难题了。《睡眠》上 刊登的三篇文章解决了失眠的问题：对于青少年来说，导致失眠的主要 原因是由于使用手机；对于成人来说，是由于工作压力；青少年过早地 使用手机会导致以后行为和认知上的问题。 【Section One】Article Cant Sleep? Turn Off the Cellphone! A good nights sleep is becoming ever more elusive for the average American — and its a problem that plagues us at all ages, from infancy to adulthood. Now three new papers in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep tackle the question of sleeplessness: two studies illuminate the reasons why teens and adults dont sleep enough. With teens, a major culprit is cellphone use; with adults, its work. Meanwhile, a third study of young children reveals that sleep deprivation in early life may lead to future behavioral and cognitive problems. The study in children was conducted at the Sleep Disorders Center at Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, where researchers analyzed the sleep patterns of close to 1,500 children aged 2.5 to 6 years — the first detailed study on the effects of sleep in developing children. The youngsters? mothers were asked to record the amount of time the children slept each night and fill out questionnaires about their childs hyperactivity and impulsivity, inattention and daytime sleepiness. Half of the kids slept 10 hours a night on average — the recommended amount for preschool-aged children — while 6% slumbered for less than 10 hours each night. Those short-sleeping children, says lead author Dr. Jacques Montplaisir, performed poorly on vocabulary and cognitive development tests at age 5, compared with the more rested group. In fact, the study found that getting one fewer hour of sleep a night during early development can triple a childs chance of scoring low on such tests, underlining sle