题目内容
We all remember ________ this sleepless city used to be a deserted place.
- A.when
- B.how
- C.where
- D.what
首先从句子结构上看,之后跟宾语从句,从句主系表结构完整,缺少的应是状语,从意义上讲应是时间状语,即我们都记得这座沉睡的城市曾经是一块不毛之地。
HOW would you like to step into the world of other people’s dreams? That’s just what Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) does. His work is to steal secrets from people when they are asleep and dreaming. He has an even rarer ability: He can plant an idea in someone’s sleeping mind, and watch it grow and take root in reality. This ability is called inception.
The movie Inception (《盗梦空间》) was on show in Chinese cinemas not long ago. It is imaginative, of course. The movie leads one to wonder just how much we know about dreams. For years, scientists and researchers have been trying to solve sleep’s greatest mystery.
Is it possible to enter someone’s dreaming mind? In the movie, DiCaprio uses a drug and a dream machine to put a scenario (某一特定情节) into someone’s sleeping mind. He then goes to sleep himself, connected to the machine, and enters the other person’s dream.
In real life, there is a machine that can read someone’s mind. A brain scanner takes pictures of brain activity, and then the software recreates images of what the person was looking at.
Researchers say it may be possible one day to record someone’s dream – without the danger (or the fun) of actually sharing that dream.
What’s a dream, anyway? A dream is a group of images and sounds our brain creates when we’re sleeping. In the 1950s, researchers discovered a sleeping condition that happened around every 90 to 120 minutes during sleep: rapid eye movement, or REM. During this period you’re fast asleep, yet your eyes move around quickly under your eyelids (眼皮) and your brain is nearly as active as during the day. That’s when most dreams happen.
What do dreams mean? Dreams are not always filled with meaning. Sometimes dreams are just your mind playing with thoughts and images from your life, or things you may have read or seen on TV. But at other times, dreams show things that you want to achieve in real life, or things that cause you trouble or stress.
【小题1】The movie Inception is mentioned at the beginning of the article to ______.
A.encourage readers to watch the movie |
B.tell readers about people with special dreaming abilities |
C.inform readers about the science of dreams |
D.warn reader about the threat of dream stealers |
A.It records dreams. |
B.It uses a special drug that causes no pain. |
C.It finds out what dreams mean. |
D.It takes pictures of brain activity and recreates images. |
A.Most dreams occur in REM sleep. |
B.Over the last ten years scientists have solved the mystery of REM sleep. |
C.People always remember what they have dreamed in a REM sleep. |
D.People can have REM sleep all night. |
A.dreams tell us a lot about a person’s character |
B.dreams are connected to real life |
C.dreams are useful and help keep our brains active |
D.dreams are usually about meaningful things |
If you dream in color, you’re not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn’t always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white.
According to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation.
The first is the methods used in the researches. The early studies tended to use questionnaires(问卷), while more modern studies use dream diaries (filled in upon rising in the morning) or so-called “REM-awakening”, which involves interrupting people’s dream-filled periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People’s memories of their dreams are likely to be less accurate by using the questionnaire approach and they are more likely to reflect their beliefs about the form dreams generally take in an unclear way.
The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the sudden increase in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation based on media exposure that carries more weight. She used both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21).
The methodological technique made no difference to the type of dreams people reported. However, the extremely important thing was that, across both questionnaires and diaries, the older participants (who had had significant early life exposure to black and white media) reported experiencing significantly more black and white dreams over the last ten days than the younger participants (22 per cent vs. 4 per cent).
Another finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This raises the possibility that the younger participants didn’t really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white.
【小题1】We learn from the text that ______.
A.people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreams |
B.older people are more likely to have black and white dreams |
C.the dreams of younger people are always colorful |
D.people today don’t have white and black dreams any more |
A.She applied both questionnaire and diary methods to study people’s dreams. |
B.She used diary methods to record people’s dreams. |
C.She chose 60 people to answer her questions about their dreams. |
D.She woke people up to record the colors of their dreams. |
A.be heavier | B.be more powerful | C.be more important | D.be more useful |
A.both older people and younger people could report colorful dreams clearly |
B.young people don’t have any black and white dreams in fact |
C.the color of a person’s dream is decided by one’s age |
D.it is probably the color of media that affects the color of one’s dream |