题目内容
Our room is always a mess. My roommate never puts away.
A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing
It sounds almost too good to be true, but a new study on sleeping brains suggests that listening to languages while you sleep can actually help you to learn them.
For the study, researchers played recordings of foreign words and their translations to students who were enjoying slow-wave sleep. During this period, a person has little knowledge of their environment. To make sure that the results were not compromised by foreign language words that students may have had some connection with at some point in their waking lives, researchers made up the words which cannot be found in the foreign language at all.
When the students woke up, they were presented with the made-up words again without their translations. The students were then asked to imagine whether this made-up word showed an object that was either smaller or larger. This vague (not very clear) way of testing their understanding of the words is a method that is supposed to make use of the unconscious (无意识的) memory.
The researchers were surprised to find out that the students were able to correctly group the words in this way. And their accuracy rate (精确度) was 10 percent higher than accidental chance. That’s not a rate high enough to help them get ability of communicating with others in a foreign language, but it is enough to suggest that the brain is still taking in information on some level, even during sleep.
It has been long believed that sleep is important for memory, but before this research its role in memory was thought to relate only to the preservation (保存) and organization of memories that students got during wakefulness. This is the first time that memory formation ( 形 成 ) has been shown to be active during sleep. In other words, our brains are listening to the world, and learning about it, even when we are unconscious of what is happening around us.
The next step for researchers will be to see whether new information can be learned quicker during wakefulness if it was already presented during sleep. If so, it could forever change how we train our brains to learn new things. Sleep learning might become a widespread practice.
1.The word “compromised” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ”.
A.influenced B.depended C.finished D.studied
2.What were the students asked to do in the study?
A.Group the words they heard by size. B.Repeat the words they heard in the sleep.
C.Imagine the meaning of the made-up words. D.Make up a word to describe “large” or “small”.
3.The researchers probably agree that .
A.sleep is necessary for a good memory B.memory formation goes on during sleep
C.listening during sleep is good for our health D.learning languages in sleep has better effects
4.What will be the researchers’ next plan?
A.To train people how to learn during sleep.
B.To dig out the reason for unconscious learning.
C.To explain the benefits of unconscious memory.
D.To study the effect of sleep learning on conscious learning.
In the past 10 years, the American artist ________ many wonderful cartoon characters.
A.created B.has created C.was creating D.had created
-- Sorry about the mess I made in your kitchen. I’ll clean it up.
-- The cleaning lady will do that later.
A.You’re welcome. B.That’s too bad!
C.Oh, it doesn’t matter. D.Be careful, please.
We heard a strange noise from upstairs, I phoned the police.
A.but B.or C.so D.for
My mother was angry me because I opened her computer but couldn’t put it back.
A.for B.to C.with D.by
Complete the following sentences as required（根据所给要求完成句子。前六小题每空格限填一词）
1.The girl admitted breaking the cup in the chemistry class. （改为一般疑问句）
______ the girl ______ breaking the cup in the chemistry class?
2.My family climb Mount Tai each year to celebrate the Spring Festival. （划线部分提问）
______ ______ your family climb Mount Tai each year?
3.The chef cooked the potato longer in order to make it more tasty. （保持句意不变）
The chef cooked the potato longer ______ ______ he could make it more tasty.
4.The community will build more parking places to meet the increasing needs. （改为被动语态）
More parking places will ______ ______ to meet the increasing needs.
5."Where are we going to have the picnic?" Nina asked her mother. （改为间接引语）
Nina asked her mother where ______ ______ going to have the picnic.
6.Please remove the old reference books from the book comer before the new ones arrive. （保持句意不变）
Please ______ ______ the old reference books from the book corner before the new ones arrive.
7.need to, more attractive, you, make your poster, how to, think carefully about（连词成句）
______________________________________________________________________________
Pansy is my friend, and I'm sure I am ______ as well.
A.she B.herself C.her D.hers
My stutter（口吃） had always been much of a problem. I'd had so many specialists(专家) for my speech over the years. It hurt me until I met a new one in the hall.
"Hello! I'm Mrs. Claussen. I hear you're from Texas!"
"Ye-Ye-Ye-Yes m-m-m-m-m-m-aam I am..."My heart felt like it was pounding ( 剧 烈 跳 动)through my chest and my hands were dripping wet.
"Well,” she said with a _________smile. "I've always like Texas."
She turned out to be the best speech specialist I've ever had, not like ________who told me to clap my hands while speaking. She was different from others. She spent the first several weeks just talking to me — asking me all kinds of questions about myself, ______my feelings. And she listened . She then began to teach me about the speech. Not just about my speech, but about everybody's.
I __________in my old school and was a pretty good tenor（男高音）, but I learned that the new school's singing group was all _______. It was such bad news, for I thought that was the one thing I could really do well- and I could do it .However, Mrs. Claussen finally got me in the group. I felt like she really cared about me as a person, not just a ________________student.
During the next two years, my speech didn't get much better - except with her. When I was in college( 大学), things got worse. I once even wanted to know ____I would ever be able to communicate！ It was a very sad time, and I often felt alone. When I was feeling really sorry for myself, I remembered Mrs. Claussen had told me whether I could change my speech was all up to me. She had told me to fight for perfect speech, just _______speech. She was right about that. I finally improved my speech greatly.
Many years have passed, but I think of her from time to time, wondering (想知道)if she had as much _______on her other students as she had on me. I like to think that she did. Her name was Mrs. Claussen... and she __________me . I'll never forget her.
1.A.shy B.cold C.weak D.kind
2.A.this B.that C.those D.it
3.A.especially B.suddenly C.quickly D.nearly
4.A.sang B.spoke C.played D.visited
5.A.set up B.filled up C.put up D.get up
6.A.fear B.study C.dream D.speech
7.A.if B.that C.who D.which
8.A.more difficult B.worse C.better D.more important
9.A.trouble B.influence C.dependence D.surprise
10.A.gave up B.cared about C.suffered from D.worried about
