It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. However, it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.
Step 1 Tie a scarf to the outside doorknob as a symbol of Do Not Disturb, but be careful not to do this too consistently. Warn your roommate beforehand about possible days and times when this scarf will be on the door so your roommate will have time to make plans ahead of time instead of it being a surprise, especially if you plan to have an overnight guest. Be considerate if your roommate needs to get into the room regardless of the scarf on the door to get something out of the dorm because it is his dorm room too.
Step 2 If one roommate is a light sleeper and the other is a heavy sleeper, the heavy sleeper could consider an alternate way to wake himself up besides an alarm. Heavy sleepers tend to ignore alarms, but sometimes vibrating (震动的) cell phones feel like someone is shaking them. It is also a quieter way not to disturb the light sleeping roommate using a vibrating cell phone.
Step 3 Take cell phone calls outside of the room. Your roommate may not want to hear your conversation or you may want some privacy, but your roommate should not have to leave every time you have a phone call. The roommate who is not on the phone has no way of knowing how often you will have phone calls and should not be put out because you do.
Step 4 Ask if it' s okay to have a guest in the room. Although your roommate is not your parent, and you may feel like this is your room too, remember that . He may not want pany when you do. If one roommate is more sociable than the other and guests bee a repeated argument, consider asking the resident director if you can swap( 交换) roommate with someone else.
【小题1】What does the passage mainly talk about? (no more than 10 words)
【小题2】How to avoid disturbing the light sleeper according to the passage(no more than 6 words)
【小题3】Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words, (no more than 6 words)
【小题4】What does Step 3 suggest us? (no more than 10 words)
【小题5】What does the word it (line 2, paragraph 1) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)
How to have privacy in a house/ dorm room.
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(答案→)How to have privacy in a house/ dorm room.
解析：本文叙述了在一个小宿舍里怎么才能有自己的私人空间呢，这里给出了四点建议。一是在门把手上系一个头巾，来作为请勿打扰的标志。二是把手机设为震动作为闹钟。三是接打电话去屋外。四是如果有个客人在房间先征求一下其他人的意见。
【小题1】根据It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. However, it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.可知如何在家或在宿舍有一个私人的空间。
【小题2】It is also a quieter way not to disturb the light sleeping roommate using a vibrating cell phone.使用手机的震动功能也是不打扰其他人的一种方式。
【小题3】Although your roommate is not your parent, and you may feel like this is your room too, 你的室友不是你的父母，你也许觉得这是你的房间，但是它也是他的。
【小题4】Step 3 Take cell phone calls outside of the room.去房间外面接打电话。
【小题5】It's difficult enough to have privacy in a house, so privacy in a small dorm room is next to impossible. 这里的It 指的是Having privacy/privacy，下文的it can be done if both roommates are willing to cooperate.中it指的也是一样的。