D
Do you and your friends ever talk about your dreams with each other? If you do, you might have noticed something interesting – some of your friends seldom remember their dreams, but some can always describe their dreams so clearly that it seems like they’re describing things that really happened to them. What makes those people different?
The answer is simple. There are two different types of dreamers – low dream recallers(回忆者)and high dream recallers.
Low dream recallers usually remember their dreams only twice a month. But high dream recallers are able to remember them about five mornings a week. And a new study suggests that activity in a certain part of the brain could have something to do with it, reported The Huffington Post.
Perrine Ruby, a French researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, studied 41 people (21 high dream recallers and 20 low dream recallers) and recorded their brain activity.
She found that a part of the brain called the temporo-parietal junction (颞顶联合区) was more active in high dream recallers than in low dream recallers – both when they were sleeping and awake.
This brain area collects and processes(编程)information from the outside world. This means that high dream recallers know more about what’s happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond (对……有反应) more strongly to hearing their own names, and when they are sleeping, they are woken more easily by sounds and movements.
By closely studying people’s brain activities, Ruby found that high dream recallers have twice as much “wakefulness time” during sleep as low dream recallers do. And it is during these short times of wakefulness that the brain remembers dreams.
“The sleeping brain is not able to remember new information,” Ruby told The Washington Post. “It needs to wake up to be able to do that.”
This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experiences. If you are worried during the night, you are more likely to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you will remember little in the morning, and this is because “you never get a chance to remember”, Robert Stickgold, a Harvard Medical School researcher, told The Washington Post.
1.According to the article, high dream recallers ______.
A. have very little brain activity during sleep
B. can remember their dreams clearly
C. don’t know how to describe their dreams
D. remember their dreams twice a week
2.Compared to high dream recallers, low dream recallers ______.
A. have higher sleep quality
B. have more sleepless nights
C. are more easily woken at night
D. respond faster when hearing their names
3.What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To show the advantages of being a low dream recaller.
B. To suggest what to do to become a low dream recaller.
C. To make readers interested in future studies.
D. To further explain Ruby’s research.
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题
D
Do you and your friends ever talk about your dreams with each other? If you do, you might have noticed something interesting – some of your friends seldom remember their dreams, but some can always describe their dreams so clearly that it seems like they’re describing things that really happened to them. What makes those people different?
The answer is simple. There are two different types of dreamers – low dream recallers(回忆者)and high dream recallers.
Low dream recallers usually remember their dreams only twice a month. But high dream recallers are able to remember them about five mornings a week. And a new study suggests that activity in a certain part of the brain could have something to do with it, reported The Huffington Post.
Perrine Ruby, a French researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, studied 41 people (21 high dream recallers and 20 low dream recallers) and recorded their brain activity.
She found that a part of the brain called the temporo-parietal junction (颞顶联合区) was more active in high dream recallers than in low dream recallers – both when they were sleeping and awake.
This brain area collects and processes(编程)information from the outside world. This means that high dream recallers know more about what’s happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond (对……有反应) more strongly to hearing their own names, and when they are sleeping, they are woken more easily by sounds and movements.
By closely studying people’s brain activities, Ruby found that high dream recallers have twice as much “wakefulness time” during sleep as low dream recallers do. And it is during these short times of wakefulness that the brain remembers dreams.
“The sleeping brain is not able to remember new information,” Ruby told The Washington Post. “It needs to wake up to be able to do that.”
This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experiences. If you are worried during the night, you are more likely to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you will remember little in the morning, and this is because “you never get a chance to remember”, Robert Stickgold, a Harvard Medical School researcher, told The Washington Post.
1.According to the article, high dream recallers ______.
A. have very little brain activity during sleep
B. can remember their dreams clearly
C. don’t know how to describe their dreams
D. remember their dreams twice a week
2.Compared to high dream recallers, low dream recallers ______.
A. have higher sleep quality
B. have more sleepless nights
C. are more easily woken at night
D. respond faster when hearing their names
3.What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To show the advantages of being a low dream recaller.
B. To suggest what to do to become a low dream recaller.
C. To make readers interested in future studies.
D. To further explain Ruby’s research.
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
D
Do you and your friends ever talk about your dreams with each other? If you do, you might have noticed something interesting – some of your friends seldom remember their dreams, but some can always describe their dreams so clearly that it seems like they’re describing things that really happened to them. What makes those people different?
The answer is simple. There are two different types of dreamers – low dream recallers(回忆者)and high dream recallers.
Low dream recallers usually remember their dreams only twice a month. But high dream recallers are able to remember them about five mornings a week. And a new study suggests that activity in a certain part of the brain could have something to do with it, reported The Huffington Post.
Perrine Ruby, a French researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, studied 41 people (21 high dream recallers and 20 low dream recallers) and recorded their brain activity.
She found that a part of the brain called the temporo-parietal junction (颞顶联合区) was more active in high dream recallers than in low dream recallers – both when they were sleeping and awake.
This brain area collects and processes(编程)information from the outside world. This means that high dream recallers know more about what’s happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond (对……有反应) more strongly to hearing their own names, and when they are sleeping, they are woken more easily by sounds and movements.
By closely studying people’s brain activities, Ruby found that high dream recallers have twice as much “wakefulness time” during sleep as low dream recallers do. And it is during these short times of wakefulness that the brain remembers dreams.
“The sleeping brain is not able to remember new information,” Ruby told The Washington Post. “It needs to wake up to be able to do that.”
This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experiences. If you are worried during the night, you are more likely to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you will remember little in the morning, and this is because “you never get a chance to remember”, Robert Stickgold, a Harvard Medical School researcher, told The Washington Post.
1.According to the article, high dream recallers ______.
A. have very little brain activity during sleep
B. can remember their dreams clearly
C. don’t know how to describe their dreams
D. remember their dreams twice a week
2.Compared to high dream recallers, low dream recallers ______.
A. have higher sleep quality
B. have more sleepless nights
C. are more easily woken at night
D. respond faster when hearing their names
3.What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To show the advantages of being a low dream recaller.
B. To suggest what to do to become a low dream recaller.
C. To make readers interested in future studies.
D. To further explain Ruby’s research.
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If you have ever talked about your dreams with your friends, you will find some of your friends don’t remember their dreams, while others can tell their dreams very clearly. Why do people remember dreams differently? The answer is simple: they are two different types of dreamers -low-recall dreamers and high-recall dreamers.
High-recall dreamers reported they remembered their dreams almost every day while low-recall dreams said they only remembered their dreams once or twice a month. Perrine Ruby, a lead scientist at the research center in Lyon, studied 41 people(21 high-recall dreamers and 20 low-recall dreamers)and recorded their more active in high-recall dreamers .This was true both when they were sleeping and awake .This area of the brain is to collect information from the outside world. This means that high-recall dreamers are more sensitive to what is happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond(作出反应)more strongly to bearing their own names. When they are sleeping, they can be woken up more easily by sounds and movements
This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experience. If you’re worried during the night, you are easy to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you remember very little in the morning This is because "you never get a chance to remember”
As another research project at the University of Turku in Finland showed, what you dream can also affect our memory. Negative(消极的) dreams are more likely to be recalled than ordinary dreams. Nightmares(噩梦)are often recalled because they are negative, and such dreams cause fear.
1.What can we know about high-recall dreamers?
A.they have very little brain activity when they sleep
B.They can remember their dreams clearly
C.They don't know how to describe their dreams
D.They remember their dreams twice a week
2.Compared to high-recall dreamers, low-recall dreamers_______.
A.have better sleep
B.have more sleepless nights
C.are more easily woken at night
D.respond faster when hearing their names
3.What's the meaning of the underlined word “sensitive"?
A.敏感的 B.迟钝的 C.严重的 D.便利的
4.What did the research project in Finland find?
A.Ordinary dreams can help our brain rest.
B.Ordinary dreams cause fear.
C.Nightmares often happen when we don’t sleep well.
D.Negative dreams are easier to remember.
5.What's the main idea of the article?
A.The way how our brain affect our dream.
B.The reason why people remember dreams differently.
C.A study about the high-recall dreamers.
D.The way how we can be a low-recall dreamer.
九年级英语阅读单选简单题查看答案及解析
Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail represents high speed,there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business--future mail.
"The letter should be sent next ' Mother's Day’ and not a day earlier!" Lin Xiaofan,a senior high school student in Hefei,instructs one of the companies offering the service.
Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother in advance to express her love to her mother for next Mother's Day.
"Offering this service makes people slow down and let them understand the meaning of 'time' in another way," said Zheng Zhimin,manager at a "future mail" company in Hefei. Zheng thinks "future mail" letters are "reminders of care,friendship and love".
While "future mail" is becoming more and more popular,some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.
Zheng said customers are glad to complete an acceptance form and make an assessment(评估) so they can be compensated(赔偿) if their letters or goods are lost or damaged.
Most of the business' customers are college students and young white-collar workers.Psychologists said young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service.
"Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so they can experience the connection between the past and the present while they receive the letter.It can help people re-understand the meaning of 'time' ," said Wang Kaiyu,a sociologist in Anhui Province.
1.Express mail is a(n) ____ way to send your letters.
A.slow B.fast
C.impossible D.ancient
2.____ are interested in future mail service now.
A.College students B.Blue-collar workers
C.Old people D.Young children
3.Through the future mail service,people can ____.
A.forget friendship B.show feelings
C.misunderstand "time" D.make an assessment
4.According to the passage,future mail is ____.
A.dangerous B.expensive
C.difficult D.safe
5.You had better use future mail if you want to____.
A.save money from sending express mail
B.send a birthday gift to your friend quickly
C.talk with your e-friends about your life freely
D.express your wishes for your father's next birthday
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读理解。
Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.
“The letter should be sent next Mother’s Day and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.
Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother’s Day.
“Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of ‘time’ in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.
While “future mail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.
Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they can becompensatedif their letters are lost or damaged.
Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive the letter.
1.“Future mail” is a/an ______ way to send your letter.
A. fast B. old
C. new D. cheap
2.The underlined word “compensate” means ______ in Chinese.
A. 赔偿 B. 完成
C. 送达 D. 抛弃
3.The “future mail” service is popular among ______.
A. junior students B. college students
C. young children D. blue-collar workers
4.The “future mail” service can help us ______.
A. sign a contract
B. express our love and care
C. forget friendship
D. understand the meaning of “time” in a wrong way
5.You’d better use “future mail” if you want to ______.
A. save money from sending express mail
B. send a birthday gift to your friend quickly
C. talk with your friends about your life freely
D. send a your best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读理解。
Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.
“The letter should be sent next Mother’s Day and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.
Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother’s Day.
“Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of ‘time’ in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.
While “future mail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.
Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they can be compensated if their letters are lost or damaged.
Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive the letter.
1.“Future mail” is a/an ______ way to send your letter.
A.fast B.old
C.new D.cheap
2.The underlined word “compensate” means ______ in Chinese.
A.赔偿 B.完成
C. 送达 D.抛弃
3.The “future mail” service is popular among ______.
A.junior students B.college students
C.young children D.blue-collar workers
4.The “future mail” service can help us ______.
A. sign a contract
B. express our love and care
C. forget friendship
D. understand the meaning of “time” in a wrong way
5.You’d better use “future mail” if you want to ______.
A.save money from sending express mail
B.send a birthday gift to your friend quickly
C.talk with your friends about your life freely
D.send a your best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
任务型阅读-完成表格
Have you or your friends ever talked about studying abroad? It's becoming a common topic of discussion in China. More students are studying abroad than ever before.
Last year, 662,100 Chinese went abroad to study, a growth of 8.83 percent from 2017. For parents who send their children abroad to study, 43 percent of them hold regular jobs. With quick economic (经济的) growth and rising income levels (收入水平), China's people have more chances to open their eyes and have more life experiences.
Seventy years ago, however, the picture was different. Thousands of students and science and technology experts(专家) had to have a competition with each other to win a chance to study abroad. It was a valuable and unusual experience for people back then.
In 1984, Wang Huiyao, who later built a non-governmental think tank (智库) that mainly pays attention to Chinese public policy and globalization (全球化), went to study at the University of Windsor in Canada. He found that while Chinese people knew little about the outside world, Westerners also knew little about Chinese people. "They even asked to touch my head to see if anything was different," he said.
But today, there are fewer of these misunderstandings. With more exchange programs, Chinese students get more chances to share their life stories with people from different cultures. Ma Ying, a15-year-old Beijinger, took a short 7-day study trip to the UK. Attracted by the culture there, she decided to stay and study in the country. "I talked to my parents, and they supported my decison. I'm happy to study more English, understand their humor, and slowly go the local lifestyle," she said.
Studying abroad | |
Introduction | More discussion about Chinese are studying abroad. |
1. for studying abroad | The number of the Chinese going abroad keeps2. with the rise of economy and income levels quickly. They have open their eyes to the world and experience different cultures. |
In the past | It was of great3. and an unusual experience to study abroad by winning a chance through competition.Wang Huiyao,said4. the Chinese nor Westerners know much about each other. |
At present | There is5. cultural misunderstanding with more exchange students to share their stories and experiences. |
九年级英语填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
—How do you your problems?
—By talking about them with my parents and teachers for advice.
A. do with B. begin with C. deal with
九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
-Do you like talking with your friends on QQ or Wechat?
- _____. They are convenient,fast and cheap.
A. Neither B. Either C. Both D. None
九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Do you have any idols? Have you ever dreamed of meeting a famous actor or talking with a
superstar, even having dinner with him? In Britain, some people say they would do anything a famous person they loved asked them to do !
One in three people in Britain have a new kind of disease. 1. Some people love famous[stars like Britney Spears, David Beckham or even Tony Blair.
It is not just the young. 2. One in four people are so interested in their heir that it affects their life.
There are two ways of worshipping(崇拜) famous people. One way is just to follow them or talk about them with friends for fun. 3. People have very strong feelings for them and think they are their friends. This is not normal and is an illness.
Experts report there are both good and bad sides of loving someone famous. 4.
However. those who have strong feelings for a famous person are perhaps to feel more lonely and
worried."Worshipping famous people is not certainly a bad thing. 5. " Dr. John, an expert said.
根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填人文中空缺处的最佳选项,使短文意思通
顺,内容完整,并将其标号填涂在答题卡相应位置。
A. The other is a more serious way.
B. Crown-ups have the same problem
C. They love a famous person too much.
D. But overdoing it may not always be good for you.
E. People who do so for fun are found to be happier.
九年级英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析