Passage 6

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Getting a good night's sleep tonight could guard children against weight gain in the future. According to a new study, putting preschoolers in bed by 8 p.m. could reduce their chances of becoming overweight or obese (肥胖的) later in life by half. Preschoolers are children around the age of 4 or 5.

The term "obese" refers to calculations of your Body Mass Index, what doctors call BMI. They use a person's height, weight and age to assess their amount of body fat BMIs help tell whether a person is underweight, normal, overweight or obese The World Health Organization says obesity can lead to serious long-term health problems like diabetes (糖尿病) heart disease and stroke.

Researchers from the Ohio State University's College of Public Health have found that young children who go to bed after 9 pm. are twice as likely to be obese later in life. The lead author of the study is Sarah Anderson She is an associate professor of epidemiology (流行病学) She studies how diseases spread and how they can be control Anderson says that, for parents, the results of the study support the importance of creating a bedtime routine. She says that having a usual bedtime routine is something "families can do to lower their child's risk" of becoming overweight.

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It isn't always easy to forgive someone who has wrongfully harmed us. (63)In fast,we are often very reluctant to forgive. Simon Wiesenthal's book, The Sunflower, presents an interesting case study that illustrates this point...

What accounts for our reluctance to forgive? Probably a number of factors, but here I want to focus on the factor of self-respect (64)Any person who wrongfully harms another fails to show sufficient respect for the person he has harmed. Implicit in the act of wrongdoing, then, is the claim that the victim does not deserve a full measure of respect. (65)I think many of us believe that if we forgive an offender who is guilty of serious, serious against us (especially an unrepentant offender). we are essentially agreeing with the claim that we do not deserve a full measure of respect. In effect, we are saying That's OK -it doesn't matter that you mistreated me. I'm not that important." If this is the case, then our reluctance to forgive may be the result of a healthy desire to maintain our own self-respect.

(66)Although the desire to maintain our self-respect is certainly important to honor, I believe that it need not lead to a refusal to forgives. In fact l believe that if we truly respect ourselves, we will work through a process of responding to the wrong, and this process will lead to genuine forgiveness of the offender. (67)If we attempt to forgive the offender before we do this work, sour forgiveness may well be incompatible with our self-respect. However, once this process is complete, it will be fully appropriate for the self-respecting individual to forgive the offender.

(From Forgiveness and Self-respect)

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What effects did the curfews bring about in New Orleans and Dallas?

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Why are curfews established for teenagers?

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