2016届广东番禺高考英语二轮复习阅读理解选练（4）_高考复习指南

2016届广东番禺高考英语二轮复习阅读理解选练（4）

　　2016广东番禺县高考英语阅读理解二轮选练（4）

　　【2016模拟】

　　阅读理解This year I decided to stop drinking coffee, my only source of caffeine. Anyone who knows me, especially my wife, will recognize this as a tough and extreme step. I’ve been drinking coffee since age 10, and I’d developed quite an addiction to the perfect cup.

　　In the past, I’ve experimented with quitting a few times by simply going cold turkey. Each time, the physical withdrawal, basically headaches, was over within 10 days, but after a month or two I would become convinced that coffee was good for my concentration and start drinking it again.

　　My reason to quit this time was the growing suspicion that coffee was causing mood swings and crashes that are bad for my overall sense of well-being. For this experiment I decided to stop very gradually. I thought that if I allowed the psychological withdrawal to occur gradually alongside the physiological(生理的), I would be able to observe my “coffee-desire” without acting on it, and learn the skill I would need to avoid touching the cup again in future.

　　I made the same amount of coffee each day. Although I didn’t measure caffeine content, I did control many factors including age of beans, water temperature and water/coffee contact time. From this controlled pot of coffee, I used measuring cups to throw away an additional 20ml per week. I used notebook software to keep some records of my progress and I started with a 3 cup pot in mid-April. Towards the end of July I wrote “I am increasingly wanting to abandon this project altogether”,but I continued and in August I was down to a half glass per day, and decided I was done.