1. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your body to prepare itself for the next day.
2. If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very slowly and very deeply.
3. In the first place, television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap one.
4. We get so used to looking at the movements on it, so dependent on its pictures, that it begins to control our lives.
5. Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living.
6. If they try hard to do something and fail, they may conclude that they will never be able to accomplish a task.
7. Water is so low in the canals of northern France that waterway traffic is forbidden except on weekends.
8. Governments in drought-spread countries are taking severe measures. Authorities in hard- hit areas of France have banned washing cars and watering lawns.
9. Burning garbage is not a new idea. Some cities in Europe and the United States have been bunting garbage for years.
10. Our fossil fuel supplies are limited. Burning garbage might be one kind of energy source that we can use to help meet our energy needs.
11. Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.
12. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children' s language devel- opment. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child' s language skills increase.
13. The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find an- swers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers.
14. The agriculture revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things:the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture.
15. By 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form.
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1.【答案】你睡觉时获得的休息使你的身体为第二天做好准备。
2.【答案】如果你入睡困难，有人建议你缓慢地进行深呼吸。
3.【答案】首先，电视是一种不仅便捷，而且相对便宜的娱乐方式。
4.【答案】我们如此习惯于看着屏幕上的一举一动，如此依赖着电视画面，以至于电视开始控制我们的生活了。
5.【答案】我们的大学毕业生面临着如此激烈的竞争，因此他们很少在乎从事何种工作，只要能谋生就行了。
6.【答案】如果他们试图做什么事，却没有做成，他们可能会得出这样的结论：他们永远也不能完成某一特定的任务。
7.【答案】法国北部运河河水的水位是如此之低，以至除周末外，船只禁止航行。
8.【答案】在干旱蔓延的国家，各级政府正在采取严厉的措施。在法国遭受旱灾较重的地区，地方当局已禁止用水洗车和浇草坪。
9.【答案】燃烧垃圾并非什么新想法。多年来，欧洲和美国的一些城市一直都在这么做。
10.【答案】我们的矿物燃料供应有限。燃烧垃圾可能会提供一种满足我们能源需求的能源。
11.【答案】因此，跑得最多的人吃得也最多，同时消耗掉的脂肪也最多。
12.【答案】父母同他们的孩子们之间的谈话方式对孩子的语言能力的发展有重大的影响。如果一个父(母)亲鼓励他的孩子对他(她)朗读的东西做出积极反应的话，孩子的语言技巧就会增强。
13.【答案】实验组的父母亲还学会了如何帮助孩子们找出答案，如何建议可供选择的(可能)方法以及如何表扬孩子们的正确回答。
14.【答案】19世纪的农业革命包括两个方面：节省劳力的机器的发明和科学耕种的形式(出现)。
15.【答案】今天(当今)使用的农机具，绝大多数在1860年已具雏形。