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People who enjoy a dream-filled sleep are better at recalling information and making links between facts when they wake, scientists found. But recharging with a shallow nap (小睡) offers no such mental improvement, the research suggests. The results of the study add to the evidence that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is very important to the brain’s ability to strengthen memories. 
An average night’s sleep includes four or five periods of REM sleep, but these tend to be longer towards the end of the night. This means that adults who get less than the recommended seven to eight hours a night — and therefore inadequate REM sleep — may be damaging their mind’s ability to form strong memories. Although REM sleep is not classified as a type of deep sleep, it is only reached after the brain has passed through deep sleep stages.  
In the most recent study, participants were shown groups of three words — such as “cookie”, “heart”, and “sixteen” — and asked to find another word that can be associated with all three words. In this example, the answer would have been “sweet”. They were tested once in the morning and then given the same task again in the afternoon. In between, some were allowed a nap with REM sleep, some a nap without REM sleep, while the others had a quiet rest period. The quiet rest and non-REM sleep groups showed no improvement in their test results, but the REM sleep group improved on their morning performance by an average of almost 40 percent.   
Dr Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the University of California who led the study, believes the formation of connections between previously unassociated information in the brain — which leads to creative problem-solving — is encouraged by mental changes which occur during REM sleep. People woken while their closed eyes made rapid movements recalled much more colorful and detailed dreams than people woken during other stages of sleep.  
72. According to the passage, to have a good memory, a person had better _________ at night.    
A. sleep four to five hours at most           B. sleep as much as possible   
C. have a shallow sleep        D. sleep with four or five periods of REM
73. If you don’t sleep seven to eight hours at night very often, _________.   
A. your strong memories might be ruined  B. you will tend to have longer periods of REM  
C. you will have an adequate REM sleep     D. your mind can form strong memories
74. The third paragraph is mainly about _________ of the most recent study.   
A. the content          B. the participants   C. the process   D. the results 
75. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?   
A. To explain the importance of REM sleep to one’s memories.   
B. To introduce the new study on sleep and memories.   
C. To discuss the relationship between sleep and memories.   
D. To persuade readers to sleep seven to eight hours at night.
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 2014～2015学年上学期第一次月考
 高三英语答题卷
 （考试时间：120分钟　　总分：150分）
第 Ⅱ 卷 (共35分)
第一节  短文填词(共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分) 
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示; 2）首字母提示; 3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
For 25 years Terry Comm. was a policeman, but for the last 17 years he has been    76    (行走) up and down five miles of beach every day, looking for things that might be u    77     to someone. Terry’s a beachcomber (海滩拾荒者).
Nearly everything in his cottage has come     78     the sea — chairs, tables, even tins of food. “I even found a box of beer just before Christmas. That was nice,” he remembers. He finds lots of bottles with messages in them,     79    (主要地) from children. They all get a     80     (答复) if there’s an address in the bottle. “Shoes? If you find one, you’ll find the      81      the next week,” he says. 
But does he really m    82    a living? “Half a living,” he smiles. “Anyway I have my police pension. But I don’t actually need money. My life is rich in      83     (多样性).” Terry is happy. “You have to find a way to live a simple life.”
“Some people say I’m mad,” says Terry. “    84     there are much more who’d like to do     85       I do. Look at me. I’ve got everything I could possibly want.”

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第二节  书面表达 (满分25分)
请根据以下提示，结合你自己生活中的一个经历，用英语写一篇短文，谈谈兴趣的作用。   
Interest plays an important role in our life. Interest is the best teacher for a learner, which can make learning more effective and efficient. With the motivation of interest, we will win ourselves lots of chances and eventually make our way to success.     
注意：①无须写标题；②内容应以自身经历为例；③词数为120左右。

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