阅读下列短文.从所给的四个选项中.选出最佳答案 Al Herpin never slept. Could this be true? When the doct

阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案

　Al Herpin never slept. Could this be true? When the doctors heard about Al Herpin, they decided to see this strange man themselves.

　Al Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They believed that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched him all the time. But they were surprised. Though they kept watching him day after day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

　The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors wondered at this strange continuous sleeplessness （连续不眠）. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition （情况）. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured （受伤）several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 91.

1．The main idea of this passage is that ______. 

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A．a large number of people do not need sleep

B．a person was found who did not need any sleep

C．everyone needs some sleep to live

D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep

2． The doctors came to visit Herpin so as to ______.　

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A．make him sleep for some time

B．find that his sleeplessness was not really true

C．find out why some old people didn't need any sleep

D．find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

3． After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al Herpin ______.

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A．needed some kind of sleep

B．was too old to need any sleep

C．needed no sleep at all

D．often slept in a chair

4． One reason that might explain Herpin's sleeplessness was ______.

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A．his mother's injury before he was born

B．his excellent physical condition

C．that he had not got a bed

D．that he had got rid of the sleeping habit （习惯）little by little（一点儿一点儿地）

5． Herpin's condition was thought to be ______.

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A．a common one

B．one that could be changed

C．very excellent

D．a very surprising one

试题答案

答案：B;B;C;A;D