题型：阅读理解 题类：期中考试 难易度：中档
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It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Herpin was 90 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 him 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 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. Herpin 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. Herpin died at the age of 94.
| A. large numbers of people do not need sleep |
| B. people can live longer by trying not to sleep |
| C. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive |
| D. a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep |
| A. to cure him of his sleeplessness |
| B. to find out why some old people did not need any sleep |
| C. to find that his sleeplessness was not really true |
| D. to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping |
| A. needed no sleep at all |
| B. was too old to need any sleep |
| C. needed some kind of sleep |
| D. often sleep in a chair |
| A. a common one |
| B. one that could be cured |
| C. a rare one |
| D. very healthy |
